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Sunshine Travel
Telefonos:
(+593) 02- 222 26 55
02- 254 52 42
09- 944 83 76
2 Day.- After breakfast we go on a rainforest tour in the Selva Viva forest preserve with pic-nic at the Rio Rodriguez, which has a crystal clear color if it is not raining, and invites to take a swim. Our forest guide is Quichua Indio, who is additionally educated by our biologists, and who is absolutely familiar with the flora and fauna of the rainforest. Part of the tour leads through a creek with fossil wood trunks, one of the main attractions of the area. Return to the hotel in the afternoon. After the Siesta we will be guided from on of the volunteers through the animal center amaZOOnico. Here you can experience free living monkeys and other rainforest inhabitants from close. Return to the hotel and dinner.
Liana Lodge (3 Days)
3 Day.- If required bird watching at sunrise. Take your binoculars and a lot of patience! After breakfast we paddle with a wide, save but simple canoe to the island Anaconda and visit a Quichua- Family who gives us an impression in their way of living. We will see the garden, maybe harvest Yucca (Maniok) together, make Chicha and exercise with the blow-gun. Lunch at the lodge. In the afternoon we make a boat-tour with the motor-canoe to Rio Napo, the largest Amazon-river in Ecuador up to the top of the island Anaconda. There we will build a traditional Quichua raft and we'll let us drift downstream the river Rio Arajuno back to the Lodge.Dinner is at the lodge. Afterwards there might be the possibility to have a visit from the shaman.
Rainforest, rivers, animals, medicinal plants, Indian communities and their traditions you will be able to explore the rainforest and get to know its habitants very well, without missing comfort and security. The lodge is situated in the middle of the rainforest, with a splendid view over a whitewater river.
1 Day.- After a welcome cocktail you move into your bungalow. If you feel like, you can go for a swim on a sandy beach at the Rio Arajuno. At dinner in the lodge we do put together your individual rainforest-program.
Other possibilities:
- Visit the missionary village Ahuano
- Boat tour downstream to the Rio Napo as far as Rio Huambuno to sea the famous Hoatzin birds and caimans (Minimum 8 people or additional costs),
- Special program for bird-watchers
- Visit the Indio museum about hunting and traps.
- Night walks through the rainforest
- Nightly tours with a simple canoe on the Rio Arajuno (really beautiful with moonlight )
- Fishing with the long-net, throwing-net or lines
