Amazon Wildlife Explorer
What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Arrive Quito
Arrive in Quito, met and transferred to your accommodation. Quito pairs one of the Americas' great old towns with reach to cloud forest, Amazon and islands.
To Yasuni National Park
Transfer to Yasuni National Park. Parrot clay licks and a canopy tower. Oxbow-lake canoeing for giant otters and monkeys.
Yasuni National Park
Oxbow-lake canoeing for giant otters and monkeys. A full day of western-Amazon wildlife. Yasuni packs more species per hectare than almost anywhere on earth — the Amazon at its richest.
Yasuni National Park
A full day of western-Amazon wildlife. Rainforest trails and night canoe for caiman.
Yasuni National Park
Rainforest trails and night canoe for caiman.
Yasuni National Park
Parrot clay licks and a canopy tower.
Yasuni National Park
Oxbow-lake canoeing for giant otters and monkeys.
Departure
A final morning in Yasuni National Park — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The season changes what you see.
Peak season
Drier highland months — clear skies over the city.
Good season
A year-round capital and hub.
Hand-picked camps & lodges
Casa Gangotena
A restored mansion on Plaza San Francisco, Quito's finest heritage hotel.
Napo Wildlife Center
A community-owned ecolodge on an oxbow lake in Yasuni, with a canopy tower.
Illa Experience Hotel
A boutique design hotel in the historic San Marcos quarter.
La Selva Amazon Lodge
A polished lodge on a lake in Yasuni, strong on canopy birding.
Patio Andaluz
A characterful colonial hotel in the heart of the old town.
Sacha Lodge
A long-established Napo-river lodge with a famous canopy walkway.
Make it yours.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.