13 nights, 5 stops — cloud forest and two amazon reserves.
Quito → Mindo Cloud Forest → Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve → Yasuni National Park → Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve.
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 Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve. Ridge birding for mountain tanagers and toucans. High cloud-forest trails and feeders.
High cloud-forest trails and feeders. Bellavista's ridge forest adds the higher-elevation birds that complete a Chocó list.
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.
Transfer to Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve. Canoe the blackwater lagoons for dolphins and monkeys. Flooded-forest wildlife and night caiman safaris.
Flooded-forest wildlife and night caiman safaris. A full day paddling the Cuyabeno lagoons. Cuyabeno's blackwater lagoons make for some of the most serene and rewarding canoe wildlife in the Amazon.
A full day paddling the Cuyabeno lagoons.
A final morning in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve — 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.
The famous dome lodge on the Tandayapa ridge, immersed in high cloud forest.
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.
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