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Tropic offers the most popular and exclusive ecotourism operation in the Amazon at Napo Wildlife Center. The quichua community on the lower Napo river has built the most carefully designed first class Amazon Lodge in Ecuador.
This ecotourism project includes the conservation of approximately over 82 square miles (53,500 acres - over 21,400 hectares ) of the most pristine Amazon Rain Forest within the Yasunì National Park, an important UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the largest tract of tropical rain forest in Ecuador.
The lodge complex is located by the Anangucocha lake, within the unique ancestral territory of the Anangu Quichua Community, part of the Yasuni National Park. In the early 90’ the community envisioned building their own lodge to provide themselves jobs and protecting their land. With great effort they built back then 4 well established shelters and a large house for kitchen and dining room, however buildings remained incomplete there at that early stage for many years as they had no more money to finish them or to establish a proper infrastructure to call it a first class jungle hotel.
ITINERARY:
Activities
We will travel in small groups, lead by native a Añangu guide, who is also an official Yasuni Park Ranger, and an expert who will reveal to us the secrets of the forest’s medicinal plants. Our other guide is a bilingual naturalist with great deal of knowledge in tropical forest biology.
Both will provide informative, enjoyable excursions every day, combining an educational and fun experience. Groups and guides will tailor their excursions in order to take advantage of coolest hours in the forest for the highest activity levels. Outings will be scheduled for before dawn or at sunrise.
This will us to see the maximum amount of wildlife, and of course each group will decide with their guides how physically intensive they want their Amazon excursions to be. On evening and night outings, an overwhelming concert of natural sounds will flood your ears.
One of the highlights at the centre is starting out very early in the morning in order to reach two of Ecuador's most accessible parrot clay licks. They are located within the lodge territory and can be reached by traveling downstream on the Giant Otter creek in dugout canoe before reaching the Napo River. We have built comfortable blinds in each parrot lick in order to provide the best viewing and highest quality photo/video opportunities.
Activities will start at the main lick between 7 and 8 in the morning and at the second blind after midday. (Price info below)
