(5 days/4 nights, Monday to Friday)    
Day 1 Monday
Quito - Francisco de Orellana - Yuturi Amazon lodge -
Fly from Quito to Coca. Transfer from the Airport to the Hotel Oasis. Departure from Coca by motor canoe and fluvial navigation along the Napo and Yuturi rivers. During the trip a light lunch will be served. The trip will take 4 hours and 30 minutes approximately, depending of the level of the river. In the lodge a welcomes cocktail will be waiting for you, briefing and dinner. After dinner you will take a night hike around the Paraguaco lagoon to observe insects, reptiles and nocturnal rodents completing the day´s activities. LD

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Day 2 Tuesday
Yuturi Amazon lodge -
Get up early. Canoe trip through the Yuturi lagoon in order to observe the transition between the land vegetation to the aquatic, the diversity of birds and their morning concert. Almost 500 species of birds have been found in the area. Return to the lodge for breakfast. Afterwards, canoe trip along the Manduro lagoon and then walk through the rain forest where you will have the opportunity to observe the exuberant vegetation, some plants like chontillos , anturios and the diversity of aquatic birds; this excursion will take six hours aprox. taking a box lunch in the jungle. Return to the lodge, free time to rest. Late in the afternoon paddling around the Yuturi lagoon to reach the Caiman Camp where you will have a briefing, dinner and overnight. BLD

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 Day 3 Wednesday
Yuturi Amazon lodge -
Get up early to take the canoe and come back to the lodge. Time to take a shower and Breakfast. After breakfast paddling on the Yuturi river till reach the Lemon´s ant trail to have a new opportunity to learn about flora and fauna. This excursion will take four hours. Return to the lodge to take the lunch. In the afternoon piranha fishing and blowpipe practice. Dinner and overnight at the lodge. BLD
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Day 4 Thursday
Yuturi Amazon lodge -
Breakfast and time to pack, you will leave the lodge to return to the Napo river. Once in the Napo river you will visit a Quichua family to learn about their life in the jungle, then the you will stop on the Monkey´s Island where our guides will talk about the main characteristics of the secundary forest and the monkey´s life. After to visit the island you will leave to the Yarina Ecological Reserve. Lunch will be served during the trip. By afternoon you will visit the canopy tower, dinner and then by canoe you will enjoy a nocturnal aquatic paddling around the Manduro river and Sapococha lagoon. BLD

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Day 5 Friday
Yuturi Amazon lodge - Francisco de Orellana - Quito
Breakfast. Departure from the Yarina Ecological Reserve to Puerto Francisco de Orellana. Transfer to the airport to take the flight back to Quito. B

Details
Departure dates
Every Monday and Friday all year round.
Meet / depart
Quito- Ecuador

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Includes
All meals(breakfast
B, lunch L, dinner D)
Amazon lodge adventure
Accomodation in cabins
Guided excursions
Briefings and lectures
Bottled water and purified water with all meals
Rubber boots up to size 43

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Not Included
Soft drinks and alcoholic
beverages, gratuities, personal expenses, rain poncho, lantern and other personal equipment.
Airfare to Ecuador is extra.
Airfare betweenQuito and
Amazon, roundtrip
$ 150.00
Yasuni Park
entrance fee
$16.00
Airport tax Ecuador
$41

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Excursions in the Amazon rainforest
There are daily visits to the rainforest, in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening accompanied by our naturalist guides. The visits usually include walking, hiking, canoeing, birdwatching, wilderness adventures and in some places interacting with Amazon tribes.

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Food at the lodge
The creative cuisine at Yuturi lodge has been praised many times by passengers from all around the world. The menu includes international and local cuisine presenting exotic dishes with a large variety of meats, tropical fruits and vegetables, offering a wide array of possibilities. We cater vegetarian and other specific dietary needs. Our cooks Maribel and Sixto. They are married. This couple are ready to prepare you the best food you can try in Ecuador.

Bird watching 1h30 hrs. aprox. Aquatic trip early in the morning
Pirana fishing 1h30 hrs. aprox Canoe trip through the lagoon
Visit to the Yarina Canopy Tower aprox 3 hrs. Birdwatching tower 32 meters high.

Native guides will show how to use the blowgun. Aprox. 1 hr.
Night aquatic trip by canoe aprox 1h30.Opportunity to observe caimans, reptiles and night birds.

Visit to the Chorongos Island aprox 3 hrs. Observation of a large group of monkeys

Visit to the indigenous community called Samona Yuturi, learning about traditions and customs
Night hike to watch land species. Observation of insects, reptiles and nocturnal rodents.

Paddle on the Yuturi lagoons to see the fantastic environment of the VARZEA and terra firme (aprox. 03 hrs). 
Birdwatching

See colorful macaws !
The open views above the canopy offer the possibility to observe macaws, parrots, toucans, aracaris but also monkeys for longer periods. The bigger macaws, like the Blue-and-Yellow, Red-and-Green and Scarlet, are usually seen in pairs or groups of three birds (pairs with their young ones).
An easy way to watch birds !

The easy way to enjoy birdwatching is with a small canoe drifting down the river after an early morning departure from the lodge. This provides clear views of the gallery forest and the rich vegetation on the banks. During one of these trips we observed 75 species in one single day.

Look at all these kingfishers !
Along the banks of the Yuturi river five species of kingfishers can be found. The most impressive one is the crow-sized Ringed Kingfisher.

What is a Potoo ??
One of these species is the Common Potoo. This remarkable bird perches itself on the top of a broken palm trunk. Due to its gray and brown colors it is hardly recognizable as a bird and looks just like another top of a tree trunk.
Meet the noisy Hoatzin !

In the early morning the Hoatzins and Speckled Chachalacas clearly compete for the most noisy-bird-of-the-year award at Cariyuturi.

What about flycatchers ?
Although about 25 species of flycatchers can be seen in the Yuturi area, the trails do not offer very easiest possibilities to spot them. Clearly the boat trips on the rivers and lakes offer much better opportunities to see these beautiful birds.
This is not just a “green wall” !!

At first a walk inside this rainforest might look like your walking along a “green wall”. But soon the more attentive observer will discover plants with colorful flowers, which attract all kinds of insects.

Not only annoying insects !!
Inside the rainforest it cannot be denied that at times there seems to be an overwhelming number of annoying insects, like mosquitoes, ants and ticks. However, flowering plants very often attract colorful butterflies and moths.
Camp to see more birds !

For keen birdwatchers it is recommended to camp one night on the island. At dawn these bird species can be most easily seen.
Birds along the Rio Napo
Although the Rio Napo itself is clearly not the main attraction to go to Yuturi, this large river with its extensive sandbanks offers several bird species.

Another interesting lake !
The Huarmiyuturi lake is only a one hour walk from the Yuturi river, but the rich birdlife along the trail and in the swamps usually makes the trip a 2 to 4 hour enterprise.

Passport, Comfortable walking shoes or tennis, rain ponchos, rubber boots if your shoe size is larger than 43, long pants 3 or 4 lightweight (not jeans), Long and short sleeved cotton shirts of blouses 3 or 4, Windbreaker or sweater, Cotton socks, a pair per day, Shorts, 2 or 3 T-shirts, 3 or 4 Bathing suit, Cotton underwear, Hat or cap, Plastic water bottle, Suntan lotion, Sunglasses, Flashlight with extra batteries, Binoculars, Waterproof small backpack, Insect repellent, Cameras with high speed film, Personal first aid kit, Plastic bags for wet clothes, cash or travellers checks.

We reserve the right to modify the itineraries due to weather conditions in the best interest of our clients.