Cuyabeno 5 Days/4 Nights

After traveling by bus to the Cuyabeno bridge, (check in 11:00 a.m) our guide will be waiting to pick you up and board the canoes that will take us to our camp “Cuyabeno River Lodge”. After lunch, we will make the adaptation walk along the "Sendero de los Ceibos" approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. In the evening, we will have a talk for the next day's activities. 

Breakfast 08:00 AM. Then we will go into the primary forest where our guides will give us talks and transmit their ancestral knowledge of medicinal plants and the existing fauna in the forest, here we will find the footprints of the Tapir, Paca, Armadillo, Puma etc. This walk can take us approximately 4 to 5 hours. Lunch – In the afternoon we will navigate upriver to practice paddling in traditional canoes (Quillas). Dinner. In the evening, after dinner, we will do a nocturnal walk to see nocturnal animals, such as spiders, toads and tree snakes, we will also turn off our flashlights to listen to the sounds of the jungle. This walk takes about 40 minutes.

Breakfast at 07:30 am. Then, we will leave in the canoe, towards the Lagunas complex with an impressive route, observing during the journey, different species of animals and birds such as Monkeys, Hoatzines, Herons, River Ducks, Martin Fishermen, etc. and with a lot of luck, the sloths. Once in the Laguna Grande, we can enjoy the surroundings and we will observe Pink Dolphins. In the lagoon, we can also see the flooded forest, where we will try to find the Anacondas. In La Hormiga (Laguna Grande) we will look for a suitable place to serve ourselves an appetizing box lunch. Then, we will go downriver to visit the Siona Community. In this visit we will be able to learn how they live and what they do on a normal day, then we will go with a family to prepare PAN DE YUCA or CASABE in the traditional way (You can camp in the lagoon – optional activity). Back in the afternoon we will take a refreshing swim in the very center of the lagoon and watch the sunset. At a suitable time our guide will propose the return to the community to carry out Camping and dinner. 

After breakfast, we will continue with our expedition in the primary forest of the Cuyabeno Reserve in the middle of the world in the Laguna Grande, we will return to the lodge Having lunch, in the afternoon we will carry out the activity of navigation upriver to observe animals. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

Very early in the morning, we will leave for Bird Watching. Check out 11:30 am we will go to the Cuyabeno Bridge where we will board the direct bus or our own vehicle.