
5 day Sample Itinerary
1-Arrival in Coca on the shores of the Napo river.Your adventure has just began as you start descending the Napo river, slowly leaving civilization behind. This rare journey will be packed with lots of adventure, exploring, animal and bird sighting, cultural interaction and plenty of magical surprises in the largest unexplored wilderness on earth.
2- Explore black water streams, lagoons and flooded forest habitat, where we'll fish for piranhas. With a little luck we'll see pink fresh-water dolphins, monkeys, sloths and a huge diversity of birds. Enjoy a jungle barbecue and Amazon hammock siesta, a refreshing swim and back to our vessel in time for dinner and a lecture at the terrace-bar of the Manatee.
3- After breakfast visit a parrot salt lick and trek into Primary rainforest. Arrival for lunch at a native campsite. Afternoon swim at a lake and some optional fishing before returning by "quilla" paddle canoe to the Manatee. Evening lecture at our inviting terrace-bar.
4- Early-bird bird watching while the Manatee journeys upriver while hundreds of parrots and macaws take flight. Take a quilla ride through winding streams and a towering canopy, bordered by native huts. Return to the Manatee in time for lunch. Afternoon visit of a native home, which is surrounded by locally cultivated plants, such as pineapples, bananas, tapioca, cocoa and coffee.
5- Morning arrival to Coca . Return to Quito |