Duration
3 nights
Group Size
Up to 10 passengers
Accomodation
Hotel - Campside
Location
ecuador - lower Amazon
Season
year-round
Meeting Point
Coca City
GOAL
Difficulty
Easy
Easy
You'll need to have medium physical condition for canyoning and walking into the amazon paths and rivers.
  • Deep Amazon exploration 
  • Wildlife at your fingertips 
  • Canoeing rivers and lagoons in Yasuni National Park 
  • Hiking into untouched primary forest 
  • Parrots clay lick 
  • Encounter with local shamans 
  • Amazon local living 
  • Discover medicinal plants
  • Follow the tracks of jaguars

Included

Transportation

Private and comfortable land transportation, motorized canoe, dugout canoe.

Accommodations

Based on double occupancy: 3 nights in Amazon Explorer Campsite – comfortable safari style tent camping inside of Yasuni National Park

Activities

Navigations in Tiputini River, Anaconda lagoon, parrots clay lick (Saladero), hiking in pristine forest, visiting the native Kichwa communities, wildlife spotting, night hikes.

Meals

3 breakfast, 4 lunch, 3 dinner.

Gear

life jackets, dugout canoe with outboard motor, rubber boots.

Guides

Certified English-speaking naturalist local guide.

 


Not included

Accommodation

Single Supplement USD 271

Flights

Domestic airfare Quito-Coca round trip (optional travel by bus)

Airport transfers

Airport transfer

Insurance

Travel insurance (mandatory)
Required immunizations (mandatory) (yellow fever vaccination)

Meals

Not described in the itinerary

Tips

For local guides, IE trip leaders & staff

LogisticsLogistics

-> Starts

La Mision Hotel in Coca city
Upon arrival on Day 1 – 11:00am

-> Ends

La Mision Hotel in Coca city
Upon arrival on Day 4 – 10:00am

Transfers

Your adventure begins in Coca on Day 1, at La Mision Hotel at 11:00am when your host will meet our IE Guide and the group.
Your trip will end on day 4 at la Mision Hotel at 10:00am approximately

To make your own way from Quito to Coca City, there are two options:
1.- Flight from Quito To Coca City, we highly recommend this option, we can help arranging this flight $220 – $250 round trip
2.- Take a bus the nigh before and travel for 8 hours approximately $25 per way. We can also help arranging this transportation and with the transfer.

 

Day 1

Hotel – Twin or Double
Breakfast.    Lunch.    Dinner

Day 2

Hotel – Twin or Double
Breakfast.    Lunch.    Dinner

Day 3

Hotel – Twin or Double
Breakfast.    Lunch.    Dinner

Day 4

Departure Day
Breakfast.    Lunch.    Dinner

 


What is the food like?

Yasuni Amazon Food

Throughout the adventure, you’ll be fueled by delicious local food, such yuca, plantain, banana, corn, fresh vegetables with plenty of local fresh tropical fruits. Lunch usually traditional soup, main dish and juice, a warm and filling meal after a big day of exploration.

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What is the accommodation like?

Amazon Camping site

 

Campamento Yasuni

yasuni Amazon Camping site

During your journey you’ll stay in local community of Mandaripanga inside Yasuni national Park, the locations very charming build with local style materials and in front of Tiputini river. the tent is a safari stile with two beds inside and with enough room to accommodate your personal belongings. Toilets and showers are shared just outside of camping hats.
Water is treated and collected from the rain very good for showering but not for drinking.
Drinking water is always available by the dining room and electricity is provide by a generator only at the dinning room

Camping Tent in Yasuni Amazon

 

Day 1

Quito – Coca – Mandari panga

Upon arrival in the city of Coca, you will be picked up by the staff of Mandari Panga to begin your tour. They will have the option to have breakfast before starting the journey to the camp, which is located within 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 take 2 hours in land transport, an hour and a half in motorized canoe traveling along the Tiputini River with the whole extension of the park adorning the landscape. They will arrive to Mandari Panga where they can be accommodated in the first class camping tents (located in typical constructions of high platforms with roof safe of mosquitoes), they will enjoy a delicious lunch. They will have a traditional welcome drink along with a small introductory talk by a guide.

In the afternoon you will make a walk in the jungle with a duration of one hour and a half or two hours where you will observe some species of animals that live in the area, and then enjoy a delicious dinner served in the common dining room, where you can also share a pleasant moment with the rest of the passengers and staff of Mandari Panga.

Day 2

 

Huangana Trail Walk (Wild pig) trail- Visit Grandmother native house

Tamarin Monkey Amazon yasuni

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 that crosses the virgin forest where you will be partakers of the wild life in its maximum splendor, surrounded by the surrounding sounds of the 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, an old family home, which was 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.

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. After that, we will return to the camp to enjoy a delicious dinner, and then go on a night walk of about 1 hour to see all kinds of amphibians, fireflies, insects and arachnids.

Day 3

Visit to parrots clay lick – Loma Toucan birds watching – Toucan Trail

Tucan Eating in the Amazon

After breakfast, you will take a canoe trip of approximately 40 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 (stone river) that will guide you to the Parrot Lick: the place most representative of animal life and especially in variety of birds, among them are: toucans, parrots, macaws, pigeons and other species of animals such as small tamarin monkeys, pygmy marmoset monkeys.

In addition you could admire predators such as: snakes, boas and raptors. At noon, you will return to the camp where lunch will be served. At around 3:30 p.m the last trek will begin along a new trail near the camp known as the Toucan Trail, which lasts approximately one hour. Back in the camp, you will go fishing for piranhas and other fish along the Tiputini River that can be served at dinner in the camp.

Day 4

Return to Coca

Giant Otter Amazon

Breakfast will be served early in the morning depending on the time your transport returns to Quito. After that, you will leave the camp in a motorized canoe for an hour and a half and then take a 2 hours land transport to Coca city, then continue with your return trip to Quito.

If the group has a flight in the afternoon or departure by bus, you could have an activity in the morning and have an early lunch in Mandari Panga.

What’s included:
  • life jackets, dugout canoe with outboard motor, rubber boots.
What do I need to Bring?
  • Passport
  • Travel insurance
  • Airline tickets
  • Quick dry clothing
  • Buff
  • Fleece top
  • Shirts/t-shirts
  • Pair of shorts
  • Pairs of long trousers
  • Rain jacket
  • Rain pants
  • Sun hat or cap
  • Swimming suit
  • Sport sandals
  • Tennis shoes
  • Day backpack 20 L. (with rain cover)
  • Pocket knife
  • Watch or alarm clock
  • Waterproof binoculars (if possible)
  • Insect Repellent
  • Sun screen 60 SPF
  • Flashlight or headlamp
  • Waterproof camera (if possible)
  • Personal water bottle 2L. or camelbak 2L.
  • Sunglasses
  • First-aid kit(should contain lip salve, Aspirin, Band Aids,antihistamine, altitude medication, Imodium or similar tablets for mild cases of diarrhea, rehydration powder, extra prescription drugs you may be taking
Pre-Post Trip Accommodation

Pre- post trip accommodation in Quito (Twin/ Double) – USD 100 Per Night
Pre- post trip accommodation in Quito (Single) – USD 100 per Night

Transfers

Private airport transfer – USD 38 per person

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How much should I tip?

Tips are not included in the trip cost. These are entirely at your discretion but there is an expectation to tip for good service. Your guide will help with advice; however, we suggest the below as a guideline per person:

  • IE Guides: USD 10- USD 12 per day
  • Local Guides: USD 5- USD 7 per day
  • IE Staff (Drivers) USD 2- USD 3 per day

Of course, you are free to tip more or less, and the amount should be reflective of your perception of service and quality – a tip is not compulsory and should only be given when you receive excellent service.

What Do I Do about drinking water?

The tap water in the Amazon is not always friendly on the stomach for those who haven’t been in Latin America for a while. There is purified water in each of the accommodation which you can use to fill up each morning, so be sure to pack a reusable water bottle or two.

What’s the weather like?

Seasons in Ecuador have nothing to do with temperature – instead there is a dry season and a wet season. In Ecuador, the winter season is hot and wet, and the summer is dry and cold. Ecuador’s dry, summer season falls between May and December. January to April is Ecuador’s wet wintertime. There is not much of a transition between the seasons.

The Amazon jungle is wet throughout the year, and experiences sudden, intense rainfall even during its dry season. It is also warm throughout the year. Tropical climate, and the temperature varies from the low 70s to high 80s (20 – 30 degrees Celsius).

What vaccinations do I need?

For the amazon, Covid vaccination is required, yellow fever and malaria medicine is recommended.

What Travel Insurance do you recommend?

World Nomads Insurance with a coverage of USD 200 000

What is the currency?

US American Dollars

What is the minimum age for this trip?

12 years old as a minimum age.

price per person:

USD 871.00

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