CUYABENO LODGE ADVENTURE
DAY 01 Fly or drive over the Andes to the oil frontier town of Lago Agrio. Continue by private transportation to the entrance of the Cuyabeno Reserve, El Puente. Load your luggage onto a dug-out motorized canoe and follow the winding Cuyabeno River to Laguna Grande, the largest lagoon in the Cuyabeno Reserve, also the site of the Cuyabeno Lodge.
DAY 02 Rise at dawn to bird watch before breakfast and spot river dolphins. After breakfast a trek through terra firma forest with your Siona and naturalist guides to explore plants and wildlife. Your Siona guide will teach you about the forests medicinal plants and local folklore. After lunch and a siesta you will take a trip by dug-out canoe to the flooded igapo with macrolobium trees covered with abundant epiphytes to spot the active monkeys and birds in the afternoon.
DAY 03 After breakfast journey down the Cuyabeno River followed by a short trek through terra firma to reach the Siona Village with a picnic lunch served by our cook. You will return to the lodge late afternoon for a siesta or a refreshing swim in the Laguna Grande. After dinner, a nocturnal excursion to spot cayman and nocturnal birds.
DAY 04 Optional early birdwatching. After breakfast a rainforest walk to explore plant and wildlife, medicinal plants, and track animals. In the afternoon excursion to explore smaller lakes. OR: Return trip to Quito.
DAY 05 Following an early breakfast journey up river to El Puente where our vehicle will take you back to Lago Agrio. Return to Quito either by bus or by air.
Additional days can be added and itineraries / activities can be adjusted according to group interest. Families are encouraged and welcome. Special arrangements can be made for long-term visitors, student groups and researchers.
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ITINERARY IMUYA/CUYABENO
Day 1- Quito - Cuyabeno National Park The lakes Imuya and Iripari seem to vanish in the largeness of the jungle. They are situated inside the Cuyabeno National Park and belong to the lake system of Lagartococha, that incorporates 30 lagoons with black water. In the upper Amazonian basin, they belong to the last protected areas for flora and fauna, which flourishes because of the closeness to the Andes, one of the greatest plant- and animal variety in the whole Amazon area. You can find jaguars, tapirs, sloth, different kind of monkeys and hundreds of different species of birds that still live, untouched by humans, in the primary forest. Every lagoon has its own ecosystem, that provides the living space for the Amazonian-dolphin, the enormous Arapaima fish, 4 different kinds of caimans, piranhas, and anacondas. An extraordinary exception of the lake Imuya are the swimming islands, on which large parts of the jungle mysteriously move from one place to the other. Flight to Lago Agrio and transfer to Chiritza. With the canoe you will go down the Aguarico-river to the Aguarico camp. After dinner there will be a night walk through the jungle. F/M/A (B/L/D)
Day 2- Cuyabeno National Park In the mornings you will go bird watching and after breakfast go out with the canoe. You will take the lunch onto the boat. In the evening the camp will be built on a sandbank in the river (Capirona Island). F/M/A (B/L/D)
Day 3 - Cuyabeno National Park You will go on going down the river until the Lagarto Cocha river where you will find your camp situated at the big lagoon. Overnight stay in a camp In tents. (B/L/D)
Day 4- Cuyabeno National Park Morning walk through the jungle and in the afternoon boat trip on the river to look for the legendary freshwater dolphins. During the night you will go out on the river again, this time to look for alligators. (B/L/D)
Day 5- Cuyabeno National Park Birdwatching in the morning. After lunch you will go back to the Aguarico river and then sleep in the Cuyabeno Lodge.
Day 6- Cuyabeno National Park After breakfast you will go to the Cuyabeno river.
Day 7- Cuyabeno - Quito In the morning you will go up the river to El Puente. From there you will go to Lago Agrio and from there fly back to Quito.