Cuyabeno Program 4 days - 3 nigths

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Meeting with the guide, transfer to the Lodge in Cuayabeno reserve and first contact with the jungle
3 stops
1
Once at the Cuyabeno Bridge, we will meet a guide who will give a welcome talk, before heading towards the Jungle Lodge.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
2
After the welcome talk, we will start the canoe navigation along the Cuyabeno River towards the lodge. Once there, we will be waiting for a delicious lunch. After lunch, the rooms will be delivered and you will have time to rest.
Admission ticket free
3
We will visit the large lagoon where you will have the possibility to swim and enjoy the sunset. Lugo, back at the lodge, we'll have a nightlife activity looking for alligators and boas. Finally, at the end of the day, dinner will be served in the accommodation.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Jungle exploration and wildlife sighting in Reserva del Cuyabeno
2 stops
4
After breakfast, we will hike in Selva Pimaria with a native bilingual guide, where we can observe medicinal flora, birds, reptiles and mammals. After this activity, you can have lunch and enjoy your free time.
5 hours • Admission ticket free
5
In the afternoon we will start a navigation to search for fauna (sloths, dolphins, monkeys, birds, etc.). Then in the evening we will take a hike to observe nocturnal animals (45 min to 1 hour). Finally, we will return to the hotel to enjoy dinner and rest.
4 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 3
Visit to the Community in the Cuyabeno Reserve and typical lunch
2 stops
6
After breakfast, we will board a boat to head into the Primary Forest. There we will visit an original community, which will welcome us with typical fruits. We will also have the possibility to prepare and taste Casabe (typical food). Lunch will be held right there (we will not return to the Lodge). In the afternoon we will visit the Shaman, the doctor of the Community, with whom we will have a conversation about how they live, ancient medicine, and will explain on the preparation of AYAHUASCA (not ingested).
7 hours • Admission ticket free
7
Once back at the Lodge, we will take a walk along the Big Lagoon. In the evening you will have free time to enjoy dinner.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 4
Bird watching and return
2 stops
8
Early in the morning (around 5:30 am) we will make a birdwatch. Back, at the end of that experience, we will have time for Breakfast, after which you will have free time to prepare your luggage.
5 hours • Admission ticket free
9
Finally, we will return to the Cuyabeno Bridge, and during the navigation along the Cuyabeno River we can make one last sighting of fauna. Once in Puente de Cuyabeno, where we met on the first day, we will say goodbye.
4 hours • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Passengers must arrive at Puente de Cuyabeno on their own, where they will meet a guide who will take them to the Lodge.
• To get to Puente de Cuyabeno, where you will meet the staff, you can hire a tour bus, which departs from Quito the night before, from the area of Plaza Foch Hostal Blue House (Joaquín Pinto y Diego de Almagro) 22:30 p.m. and for tourists from the Historic Center, Hostal Guayunga (José de Antepara y Vicente León) 23:00 p.m., direct trip to our meeting point. (for more information regarding the transfer, you can contact us

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