Day 1 - Welcome to the Amazon

Early in the morning at a pre-coordinated time, meet your private guide at the hotel reception area for your transfer to Quito´s airport to board your domestic flight to Coca*.

*Flight not included

Depart from Quito for a spectacular 30-minute flight over the eastern Andes mountain range to Coca. After landing and completing airport procedures, a hired bus picks you up from the airport and delivers you five minutes later to Puerto Francisco de Orellana. Here, you begin a two-hour trip down the Napo River aboard a comfortably covered motor canoe to Napo Wildlife Center.

Enjoy lunch along the way and see birds such as herons, kingfishers, and many others. Take a short break at the Napo Wildlife Center’s outer dock before embarking on a majestic and peaceful dugout canoe ride to the lodge itself. You’ll be surrounded by trees overhead as your canoe paddles along a narrow creek that connects to the lake where the lodge is located. Civilization is soon forgotten here and the only sounds you’ll hear are the dip of the paddles and the myriad calls of the surrounding rainforest. Keep an eye out for monkey sightings as well as large birds such as toucans, parrots, and macaws. Navigate into Añangu Lake and spot the lodge situated on its shores. Before long, enjoy a welcome drink as you settle into your luxurious cabaña.

After a delicious dinner, head back to the water for caiman spotting and listen to the natural nocturnal sounds of the rainforest.

Overnight: Napo Wildlife Center

Meal Plan: BL,D

Day 2 - Visit One of the Best Parrot Clay Licks

Rise early and take advantage of the best time of day for viewing parrots. One of the best parrot clay licks in Ecuador is located one hour from the lodge, and you’ll reach it just as the day’s parrot activity kicks off. A total of 11 species of parrots, parakeets, and macaws can be seen here.

Later, hike along a forest trail to visit the Kichwa Community of Añangu and share time with a family on their activities.

Return to the creek and hike through a Terra Firme Forest for about 30 minutes until we arrive at the second parrot clay lick where if the weather conditions help will be able to find different species of parrots, parakeets, and even macaws.

Lunch at Napo Cultural Center, where you share with people of the Kichwa community. You will be paddled back to the lodge, where you arrive in the late afternoon with a delicious dinner waiting for you.

Overnight: Napo Wildlife Center

Meal Plan: B,L,D

Day 3 - See the Amazon from the Treetops

After early breakfast, we leave the lodge to experience an amazing view of the rainforest from a 36m. tall canopy tower, a great way to see the life above the ground of the forest. This is the second tower at the Napo Wildlife Center (the first is attached to the dining hall and allows great views of the lake).

The tower is located about 30 minutes from the lodge deep within the Terra Firme forest. As you ascend the 12-floor tower, you pass through different levels of the forest and emerge on top of a huge Ceiba tree.

Here you cross onto a wooden platform that is built into the tree and experience the view formerly reserved only for the birds. The metal tower itself was constructed to the highest standards, galvanized, and carefully inspected by engineers. Safety is the priority. The platform at the top of the tree was constructed by tree platform specialists as well. From top to bottom, there is no finer canopy experience in Eastern Ecuador.

Flocks of colorful tanagers pass right through the canopy of the tree, Blue-and-yellow Macaws fly past, in nearby trees, Spider Monkeys search for fruit, two species of large toucans call in the early mornings and afternoons, and the life of the forest canopy opens before you. Birds that are virtually impossible to see from the forest floor far below are suddenly right beside you, oblivious to your presence. The canopy tower opens a whole new world to guests of the Napo Wildlife Center!

Lunch is served at the lodge. Afternoon visit to a Terra Firme trail, hike along primary forest to discover the forest interior, possibilities of finding lizards, colorful manakins, or the unique and endemic Golden mantle tamarin monkeys. After the hike, explore the lake and creeks by dugout canoe with the great possibility of running into a Giant otter family on the way.

Overnight: Napo Wildlife Center

Meal Plan: B,L,D

Day 4 - Departure

Early departure and last excursion canoeing back to the Napo River, the creek may reveal new sights of Giant Otters, Monk Saki monkeys, or many other rare birds. Transfer to the motorized canoe to return back to Coca, arrival approximately after a 2 hours boat ride in order to check-in for Coca – Quito flight* schedule to be announced according to departure details and arrangements.

*Flight not included

Overnight:

Meal Plan: B