Local Living Ecuador - Amazon Jungle

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 Trip Length
7 Days
 Trip Starts
Quito
 Trip Finishes
Quito
7 Day Local Living Ecuador - Amazon Jungle Itinerary (G Adventures)
Countries Explored: Ecuador
Trip Style
Local Living
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Budget
Affordable
Max. Group Size
16
Pace
Moderate
Guide Level
Fully Guided
Trip Code
SEJL

Overview

Book online and enjoy exclusive savings on G Adventures 7 Day Local Living Ecuador - Amazon Jungle. The Amazon Rainforest is so full of life; embrace it for yourself during a week unlike any other. From Quito, you'll travel to your new home in the jungle and meet the Quichua family who will host you in their village for the next four nights. Discover waterfalls on jungle walks and travel to an animal rescue centre by canoe. You'll learn about medicinal plants and how to use a blowgun, experience a shaman ceremony, and walk to a jungle waterfall. Most importantly, you'll befriend people few outsiders...read more have the honour to even meet.

Itinerary

Arrive at any time.

Travel by bus and truck into the Amazon Jungle. Spend the next 4 nights in rustic wooden huts with a local Quichua family as hosts. Walk to a viewpoint and get a natural mud face mask treatment. Stay: Cabanas Pimpilala (B/L/D)

Guided walk to a waterfall then return home for a cacao culinary experience and tasting. Learn about medicinal plants on an afternoon jungle walk. Stay: Cabanas Pimpilala (B/L/D)

Morning car and canoe ride to the amaZOOnico Animal Rescue Centre. Free time in the afternoon to relax in the jungle. Stay: Cabanas Pimpilala (B/L/D)

In the morning, experience a shamanic healing ceremony and a mock jungle marriage ceremony. Later, cycle to the nearby community of Shandia and discover the beauty of the Amazon with a member of the community as your guide. Stay: Cabanas Pimpilala (B/L/D)

Enjoy a blowgun demonstration and participate in a contest to show off new found skills. Say goodbye to your Quichua family, then travel back to Quito. (B)

Depart at any time. (B)

Trip Inclusions

  • Live like a local in the Amazon Rainforest.
  • Learn Quichua traditions by interacting with your local hosts.
  • Visit an animal rescue centre and hone your blowgun skills.

  • Your G for Good Moment: Shandia Biking & Community Experience, Shandia
  • Your Welcome Moment: Welcome Moment - Meet Your CEO and Group
  • Your Local Living Moment: Amazon Jungle Experience, Tena
  • Your Wellness Moment: Mud Mask Therapy, Tena
  • Your Foodie Moment: Chocolate Culinary Experience, Tena
  • Your Hands-On Moment: Blowgun Contest and Demo, Tena
  • Visit to amaZOOnico Animal Rescue Centre
  • Walks to a viewpoint and a waterfall
  • Medicinal plants jungle walk
  • Shamanic ceremony
  • Cultural night including a jungle marriage ceremony
  • Transport between destinations and included activities

  • Rustic jungle lodge (4 Nights), hotel (2 Nights)
  • The Pimpilala Lodge is located in the Amazon jungle, 45 minutes from Tena. The lodge offers varied basic accommodation in rustic wooden huts or bungalows, both with mosquito nets. All travellers will have access to shared showers (no hot water) and toilets outside of the rooms, but located very near by. A local family lives in the main lodge and they encourage people to hang out and see how they cook. A common area with hammocks is a popular place to relax.

  • CEO (Chief Experience Officer) throughout, local Quichua guides

  • 6 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 4 dinners

  • Local bus, motorized canoe, pickup truck, walking

  • Accommodation, itinerary and inclusions subject to change.
  • Price is for land, cruise and internal flights as specified. Flights not specified are not included
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