Yasuni Explorer
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About This Experience in Coca
Why Visit Coca?
Coca, Ecuador offers a wealth of attractions, cultural experiences, and activities for visitors. From historic landmarks to modern attractions, Coca provides an unforgettable travel experience with something to discover around every corner. Explore local cuisine, discover unique culture, and create lasting memories in this remarkable destination.
Getting to Coca
You can reach Coca, Ecuador by air, train, or road depending on your starting location. The city offers various transportation options including taxis, public transit, and private transfers to help you reach your destination. Many hotels can arrange airport transfers, and local transportation options vary by location.
What's Included
- Activities: Navigations in Tiputini River, Anaconda lagoon, parrots clay lick (Saladero)
- Accommodation: 3 nights in Amazon Explorer Campsite - comfortable safari stile tent camping
- Gear: Dry bags, life jackets, dugout canoe with outboard motor, rubber boots.
- Staff: Certified AJ expert English-speaking naturalist trip leader and local guides
- Transportation: private and comfortable land transportation, motorized canoe, dugout canoe.
What's Not Included
- Airfare Quito-Coca round trip (optional travel by bus).
- My Own Room & Tent supplement
- International flights.
- Airport transfers to/from Quito airport.
- Travel insurance (mandatory).
- Required immunizations (mandatory) (yellow fiver vaccination).
- Meals not described in the itinerary.
- Personal expenses.
- Tips
- Donations to the community – Contact us for guide lines.
Cancellation Policy
Additional Information
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Meeting and Pickup
Pickup Information
Pickup Option: All travelers must meet at start point
Itinerary
QUITO - COCA - MANDARI PANGA
Upon arrival in the city of Coca, you... 8 hours
Upon arrival in the city of Coca, you will be picked up by the staff of Mandari Panga to begin your tour. They will have the option to have breakfast before starting the journey to the camp, which is located within the Yasuní National Park, immersed in the enormous biodiversity of the area that is considered worldwide as one of the largest in the world. The trip will take 2 hours inland transport, an hour and a half in a motorized canoe traveling along the Tiputini River with the whole extension of the park adorning the landscape. They will arrive at Mandari Panga where they can be accommodated in the first-class camping tents (located in typical constructions of high platforms with roof safe of mosquitoes), they will enjoy a delicious lunch. They will have a traditional welcome drink along with a small introductory talk by a guide. In the afternoon you will take a walk in the jungle with a duration of one hour and a half or two hours where you will observe some species of animals.
HUANGANA TRAIL WALK (WILD PIG) TRAIL- VISIT GRAN MOTHER NATIVE HOUSE
After a delicious breakfast in the morning, you... 8 hours
After a delicious breakfast in the morning, you will cross the Tiputini river by canoe to the other shore to begin your hike in Huangana Trail that crosses the virgin forest where you will be partakers of the wildlife in its maximum splendor, surrounded by the surrounding sounds of nature and the screams of howler monkeys. The duration of the walk in a circle is approximately 5 to 6 hours and at the end will be the canoe to go back to the camp. Enjoy a delicious local lunch delicious local cuisine in a place full of history and tradition, an old family home, which was rebuilt and now is the dining room of visitors. You can rest a bit, before continuing with a one hour walk in the Lamedero Sahino (wild pig clay lick), named for the species of mountain pig called pecari, which exists in the area. You can rest a bit, before continuing with a one hour walk in the Lamedero Sahino (wild pig clay lick), named for the species of mountain pig called pecari, which exists in the area.
DAY 3: VISIT TO PARROTS CLAY LICK - LOMA TUCAN BIRDS WATCHING - TUCAN TRAIL
After breakfast, you will take a canoe trip... 8 hours
After breakfast, you will take a canoe trip of approximately 40 minutes again the current of Tiputini River, in this way, you will be able to observe some species of animals until you reach a small branch of a stream called Rumiyacu (stone river) that will guide you to the Parrot Lick: the place most representative of animal life and especially in the variety of birds among them are toucans, parrots, macaws, pigeons and other species of animals such as small tamarin monkeys, pygmy marmoset monkeys. In addition, the place has sometimes predators such as snakes, boas, and raptors. At noon, they will return to the camp where lunch will be served to rest a little later. At around 3:30 p.m., the trek will begin along a new trail near the camp known as the Tucan Trail, which lasts approximately one hour. Back in the camp, you will go fishing for piranhas and other fish along the Tiputini River that can be served at the dinner that will be prepared upon arrival at the camp.
RETURN TO COCA
Breakfast will be served early in the morning... 6 hours
Breakfast will be served early in the morning depending on the time your transport returns to Quito. They will leave the camp in a motorized canoe for an hour and a half and then take 2 hours of land transport to the city of Coca, then continue with their return trip. If the group has a flight in the afternoon or departure from the group by land, you could have an activity in the morning and have an early lunch in Mandari Panga.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cancellation policy?
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
How do I book this tour?
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Is this tour suitable for all ages?
Please check the age requirements and physical fitness level requirements listed in the tour details above. Some tours may have age restrictions or require a certain level of physical fitness.
