11 nights, 3 stops — from the chocó to the western amazon.
Quito → Mindo Cloud Forest → Yasuni National Park.
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.
A city day before the cloud forest or the islands. Historic Quito before the wild.
Transfer to Mindo Cloud Forest. Hummingbird feeders and the cock-of-the-rock lek. Cloud-forest birding for Chocó endemics.
Cloud-forest birding for Chocó endemics. A full day of feeders, leks and forest trails. Mindo's feeders bring dozens of hummingbird species within camera range — the essence of Chocó birding.
A full day of feeders, leks and forest trails. Tanagers and toucan-barbets in the cloud forest.
Transfer to Yasuni National Park. Parrot clay licks and a canopy tower. Oxbow-lake canoeing for giant otters and monkeys.
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.
A full day of western-Amazon wildlife. Rainforest trails and night canoe for caiman.
Rainforest trails and night canoe for caiman.
Parrot clay licks and a canopy tower.
Oxbow-lake canoeing for giant otters and monkeys.
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.
Drier highland months — clear skies over the city.
A year-round capital and hub.
A restored mansion on Plaza San Francisco, Quito's finest heritage hotel.
A glass-walled luxury lodge deep in the Chocó rainforest, a wildlife landmark.
A community-owned ecolodge on an oxbow lake in Yasuni, with a canopy tower.
A boutique design hotel in the historic San Marcos quarter.
A comfortable cloud-forest lodge with superb hummingbird feeders near Mindo.
A polished lodge on a lake in Yasuni, strong on canopy birding.
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