A three-hour motor canoe trip down the largest Ecuadorian tributary of the Amazon, the Napo River. During the journey, various bird species, such as herons, egrets, and vultures, can be spotted, all while enjoying a packed lunch.

The journey continues with a short walk to Challwacocha Creek, where you will board paddle canoes for a trip through the primary flooded forest home of these specialties:

• Cocha antshrike
• Dot- backed antbird
• Silver antbird
• Plumbeous antbird
• American pygmy kingfisher
• Rufescent tiger heron
• Capped heron

Upon arrival, you will be served a welcome cocktail and snacks, followed by an introductory talk about the lodge and its facilities before settling into your cabin. The guide will explain the activities for the rest of the day. One option is to walk along the nearby trails or take a canoe ride.

During these activities, you will be able to watch:

• Wattled jacana
• Least bittern
• Agami heron
• Green and rufous kingfisher
• White-chinned jacamar
• Hoatzin
• Red-bellied, Chesnut-fronted, Blue & yellow macaw
• Cobalt-wing parakeet
• Mealy Amazon
• Capped heron
• Neotropic cormorant
• Anhinga
• Ringed kingfisher
• Orange-winged parrot
• Pale-vented pigeon
• Lesser kiskadee
• Least bittern
• Cream-colored woodpecker
• Spot-breasted woodpecker
• Red-capped cardinal

For dinner, our chef offers a wide variety of national and international cuisine. Vegetarian and vegan options are also available. 

The last activity of this busy day is a canoe ride to watch:

• Common pauraque
• Common potoo
• Black-crowned night heron
• Boat-billed heron

After breakfast, experience the bird life on the tree tops from the 36-meter (118 ft.) observation tower. To get there, your leaders will paddle on the Challwacocha Lake for 30 minutes, followed by a 10-minute walk. Over 590 species of birds have been registered so far, including colorful birds such as macaws, toucans, honeycreepers, tanagers, flycatchers, hummingbirds, and the rare Harpy Eagle.

Mixed groups include:

• Turquoise, Flame-crested, Opal-rumped and Opal-crowned tanagers
• Golden & Orange-bellied euphonias
• Green & Purple honeycreepers
• Lemon-throated barbet
• Spangled & Plum throated Cotinga
• Great potoo
• Great jacamar
• Crested eagle

Once the treetop activity is over, we head down to spend the rest of the day in the under, searching forof antbirds and manakins.

• Lunulated antbird
• Fulvous antshrike
• Long-tailed potoo
• Wire-tailed manakin.

Lunch will be served at the lodge
More birding spots: The bar & three-storey dock
Have your binoculars handy to spot Silver-beaked tanager, Long-billed woodcreeper, Masked – crimson
tanager, the infallible Hoatzin besides Yellow-rumped cacique, White-throated Toucan, Many- banded aracari.

We will walk on the Chorongo trail in the afternoon with the possibility to watch:

• Brownish twisting
• Chestnut- belted gnateater
• Black-tailed leftover
• Thrush- like antpitta
• Wire-tailed manakin
• Blue-crowned manakin
• Screaming Piha
• Rusty- belted tapaculo

After breakfast, depart to the Napo River to board the boat and visit the parrot-clay lick at Yasuní National Park for a wonderful view of hundreds of parrots searching for a gap to land to eat the earth. Here, you will see Mealy Amazon, Yellow-crowned, Orange-winged, and Blue-headed parrots, besides Dusky-headed parakeets.

The other clay-lick is basically a cave where hundreds of Cobalt-winged parakeets ingest dissolved minerals in the water accumulated on the ground with the companion of Scarlet Macaw and Orange cheek parrot.

Another alternative is a hike on the south of the Napo inside Yasuní National Park, considered by scientists the most biodiverse area in the world; here, some species that cannot be found in the north might be spotted.

• White-plumed antbird
• Lunulated antbird
• Blue-backed Manakin
• Ochre-striped antpitta
• Chestnut-headed crake
• Yellow-billed jacamar
• Purplish jacamar
• Ash-throated gnateater
• Rio Suno Antwren
• Rufous-tailed Antwren
• Brown-backed Antwren

Another option is birding in the islands, searching for the outstanding.

• Orange-backed troupial
• Olive- spotted hummingbird,
• Fuscous flycatcher,
• Black and White antbird,
• White-bellied & dark-breasted spinetails
• Orange-headed tanager

Return to the lodge in the late afternoon for dinner.

After an early breakfast, take a final canoe ride through Chawllacocha Creek, accompanied by the Amazonian wildlife and the sunrise.

Board the motor canoe on the Napo River to depart this magical land and arrive on time for the flight to Quito.