With the Amazon camping expedition, you will have the Amazon Basin at your fingertips. It is the perfect adventure for nature lovers, jungle explorers, and wildlife watchers who would like to experience the untouched Amazon. You will discover Ecuador’s Amazon in the Yasuni National Park, world-famous for its tremendous biodiversity and its authentic indigenous cultures which are still very much alive. On this trip, while passing through rivers and lagoons, you will feel as if the animals are following you. You will see displays of parrots, toucans, macaws, kingfishers, herons flying across the river, as well as curious giant otters who will approach the canoe to have a look. Many different types of monkeys will be jumping on the trees and there will be chances to spot jaguars, the master cat predators of the jungle. The Kichwa native people will share their history and we will learn about their rich connection with Mother Nature.
Panga to begin your tour. They will have the option of having breakfast before starting the trip to the camp, which is inside the Yasuní National Park, immersed in the enormous biodiversity of the area that is considered worldwide as one of the largest in the world. The trip will last 2 hours inland transport and an hour and a half in a motorized canoe that will cross the Tiputini River with the whole extension of the park adorning the landscape. They will arrive at the facilities of Mandari panga where they can stay in the tents (located in typical constructions of high platforms and with the roof of leaves and with a first-class accommodation), they will enjoy a delicious lunch. They will have a traditional welcome drink along with a small introductory talk by the assigned native guide. In the afternoon we will walk in the jungle for an hour and a half or two hours where we will observe some species of animals that live in the area and then enjoy a delicious dinner.
After a delicious breakfast in the morning, you will cross the Tiputini river by canoe to the other shore to begin your hike in Huangana Trail (wild pig trail) that crosses the virgin forest where you will be partakers of the wildlife in its maximum splendor, surrounded by the surrounding sounds of nature and the screams of howler monkeys. The duration of the walk in a circle is approximately 5 to 6 hours and at the end will be the canoe to go back to the camp. Enjoy a delicious local lunch in a place full of history and tradition, which was a typical house rebuilt and now is the dining room of visitors. You can rest a bit, before continuing with a one hour walk in the Lamedero Sahino (wild pig clay lick), named for the species of mountain pig called pecari, which exists in the area. In the afternoon, they will take a short canoe ride to visit the Abuela House (grandmother house).
After breakfast, you will take a canoe trip of approximately 45 minutes again the current of Tiputini river, in this way, you will be able to observe some species of animals until you reach a small branch of a stream called Rumiyacu that will guide you to the Parrot Lick: the place most representative of animal life and especially in the variety of birds among them are toucans, parrots, macaws, pigeons and other species of animals such as small tamarin monkeys, pigmy marmoset monkey. In addition, the place has sometimes predators such as snakes, boas, and raptors. At noon, they will return to the camp where lunch will be served. At around 3:30 p.m., the trek will begin along a new trail near the camp known as the Tucán Trail, which lasts approximately one hour. Back in the camp, you will go fishing for piranhas and other fish along the Tiputini River.
After breakfast, you will start your day's activity with a short one-hour canoe trip to the Tapir Trail, which lasts three hours. They return at noon for lunch and have a little free time to rest or know the surroundings. In the afternoon you will take a canoe of only 5 minutes to cross to the other side of the Tiputini river where you will walk to the black water lagoon, which has a half-moon shape and allows you to see a series of endemic aquatic species especially the giant otter, and with luck anacondas and variety of birds and among other species. They will return to the camp for the dinner that will wait for them already served and they will be able to sleep early for the departure of the following day.
Breakfast will be served early in the morning depending on the time your transport returns to Quito. They will leave the camp in a motorized canoe for an hour and a half to then take 2 hours of land transport to the city of Coca to end their tour. If the group has a flight in the afternoon or departure from the group by land, we could have an activity in the morning and have an early lunch in Mandari Panga.
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