Go deep inside the jungle 4, 5 and 8 days | Only accessible by small CESNA aircrafts, this lodge is located deep inside the Amazonian Jungle. Found in the territory of the Achuar, Kapawi is an award winning eco-lodge that provides its guests with an array of cultural and natural experiences.
Only accessible by small CESNA aircrafts, this lodge is located deep inside the Amazonian jungle. The Kapawi project opened in 1996 as a unique partnership between Canodros, an Ecuadorian tourism company, and the Achuar people. Each partner shared a vision of building an economically sustainable project that would contribute to the preservation of the cultural and environmental riches of Ecuador’s Amazon region holds an incredible.
Kapawi Ecolodge & Reserve is located in one of the most remote and well protected parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Deep in the nearly two million acres of the Achuar people’s territory, Kapawi is an award winning eco-lodge noted for its comfort and quality of service, for its ecological design and sensitivity, and for its abundance of wildlife and rich biodiversity. Located in the territorial lands of an indigenous nation (6,000 people in 64 communities) still living as they have for generations and in intimate harmony with nature, Kapawi provides guests a range and depth of cultural experiences unmatched by any other rainforest lodges.
The lodge offers a multitude of activities, so that with your guides and your group you can design a flexible program to suit your interests and activity level.
Your day in Kapawi can start as early as 6:00am if you are keen to catch the animals and birds at their most active. If requested your Achuar guide will wake you with a knock on your cabin door. Hot drinks and light snacks are available before heading off for your early morning activities, but don’t worry, nothing too strenuous for first thing in the morning, just relax in the canoe as you are taken upstream bird watching or downstream to the clay lick where the parrots and macaws gather most mornings. The dawn light and the symphony of insect, bird and animal calls at this time of the morning will be etched into your memory forever
Most itineraries include a visit to an Achuar community, where you will be invited into a home to experience Achuar hospitality and taste the famous manioc beer. Depending on your fitness levels there are a variety of hikes in the rainforest to learn about the flora, fauna and Achuar cosmology and culture. Your Achuar guide will delight and amaze you with all the different uses of the plants, from food to medicine, to building materials. If you are lucky enough, you will come across traditional Achuar foods and you will have the opportunity to taste lemon ants or palm larvae, not for the faint hearted!
Prices Include:
- Accommodation
- Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner during the whole stay.
- All activities described include Tour Guide.
- Rubber boots, rain coats and life vests.
- Hotel services.
- Airport assistance in Quito and Kapawi.
Not included:
- Air ticket Quito - Coca - Quito. (Aprox. $128 USD)
- Contribution to the Achuar Nationality: $10 USD entrance fee + $2.50 USD per night per pax.
- Soft drinks and alcoholic drinks.
- Transfers to airport in Quito.
