Cuyabeno Birding Tours

from $425.00

Cuyabeno Reserve Ecuador is a region of the Amazon near the border of Colombia only accessible by small boat. Here visitors stay in comfortable wooden eco-lodges with and spend the day exploring the rainforest with indigenous guides. We work directly with the indigenous community in the area who have grown up in the Amazon and know more about it than foreign guides from Quito, we have a commitment to employing great local guides with a piece of vast knowledge on the region and its wildlife.

CUYABENO BIRDING TOURS

Is promoting seriously and responsibly ecotourism in the 2nd biggest protected area in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador (CUYABENO WILDLIFE RESERVE) with 604,000 hectares 0f primary forest declared protected in 1979. This Ecolodge provides solar electricity to charge batteries of cameras or other electronic objects, rooms with private toilet and hot shower, to make as less impact as possible to nature the lodge also provides biodigesters for the toilet system. Sure the sustainable tourism industry is benefiting directly local communities in the reserve, at the same time protecting a part of the last refuge of wildlife on earth.

In this National reserve, the Siona Secoya and Cofan tribes inhabit and share their spaces with the natural wildlife, still practicing millennial ways of life in the rainforest.

Cuyabeno lakes are also very famous for its fishing, particularly Piranha, and great chances to spot the snake king ANACONDA.

Activities:

  • Tower bird spotting
  • Birdwatching
  • Forest animal tracking
  • Alligator spotting – Caimans
  • Cultural exchange
  • Fishing

Cuyabeno Birdwatching tour, you can spot birds such as:

Oaxin, Egrets, Toucans, Puffbirds, Potoo, Nightjar, Tanagers, Macaws, Parrots, Puffbirds, Trogons, and much more.

The flooded forest and lakes also allow for slow rowing canoes to keep tracking birds, especially water birds, such as egrets and kingfishers, and its primary forest gives a unique opportunity to spot great bird species, that live within the land.

Traveling to CUYABENO alone? Find a group and join one of our Last Minute tours in Ecuador

Would you like to know more?
Please send us an email: adventuresecuador@gmail.com 

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    • Vacation Style Holiday Type
      • Bird
      • Jungle
      • Rural
      • Wildlife
      Amazon Rainforest, Bird Watching, Discovery, Family
    • Activity Level Leisurely
    • Group Size Large Group
      16
    All about the Cuyabeno Birding Tours.

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    The tour package inclusions and exclusions at a glance
    What is included in this tour?Items that are included in the cost of tour price.
    • Transport to Cuyabeno reserve entrance and back (from Lago Agrio)
    • Transport by boat to Eco Lodge
    • All meals during the trip
    • Intercultural exchange with the local Siona people
    • Night walks in the forest
    • Visit to the lagoons and swimming
    • Bird watching
    • Local Naturalist guides
    • Equipment as boots (until 47) and raincoats
    • Tour for finding Caimans at night
    • Trek in the forestAll breakfasts, lunches and dinners & dining
    Whats not included in this tour.Items that are included in the cost of tour price.
    • Travel insurance and other emergencies
    • Single room accommodations join our groups every Monday and Thursday)
    • Liquors, beeers and bootled beverages
    1. Day 1 Lago Agrio -

      Lago Agrio – El Puente. Flight (9:00.) or bus ride (one day before – 8 hour ride) to Lago Agrio. Drive from Lago Agrio to El Puente. Afternoon: canoe trip down the Cuyabeno River to our camp site. Night: dinner and exiting night walk.

    2. Day 2 Cuyabeno

      Cuyabeno River. Morning: three hour hike in the primary forest to learn about flora and fauna, including lessons in the use of plants for survival. Late afternoon: Relax, sunset at Laguna Grande with a chance for some refreshing swimming and caiman (alligator) searching.

    3. Day 3 Cuyabeno

      Cuyabeno River. Morning: An hour and a half boat ride down the river to a Siona indigenous community to interact and learn about their traditions and customs by making some local food. After a visit to a shaman to learn about his secrets and ncestral knowledge of shamanism. At night we enjoy watching hundreds

    4. Day 4 Cuyabeno - Lago Agrio

      El Puente – Lago Agrio – Quito. Early morning: Bird watching from a 25 meters high tower. Breakfast: journey up Cuyabeno River to El Puente. Drive to Lago Agrio (arrive in Lago Agrio in the afternoon).

    5. Day 5 Lago Agrio -

      Lago Agrio – El Puente. Flight (9:00.) or bus ride (one day before – 8 hour ride) to Lago Agrio. Drive from Lago Agrio to El Puente. Afternoon: canoe trip down the Cuyabeno River to our camp site. Night: dinner and exiting night walk.

    6. Day 6 Cuyabeno

      Cuyabeno River. Morning: three hour hike in the primary forest to learn about flora and fauna, including lessons in the use of plants for survival. Late afternoon: Relax, sunset at Laguna Grande with a chance for some refreshing swimming and caiman (alligator) searching.

    7. Day 7 Cuyabeno

      Cuyabeno River. Morning: An hour and a half boat ride down the river to a Siona indigenous community to interact and learn about their traditions and customs by making some local food. After a visit to a shaman to learn about his secrets and ncestral knowledge of shamanism. At night we enjoy watching hundreds

    8. Day 8 Cuyabeno - Lago Agrio

      El Puente – Lago Agrio – Quito. Early morning: Bird watching from a 25 meters high tower. Breakfast: journey up Cuyabeno River to El Puente. Drive to Lago Agrio (arrive in Lago Agrio in the afternoon).

    9. Day 9 Lago Agrio -

      Lago Agrio – El Puente. Flight (9:00.) or bus ride (one day before – 8 hour ride) to Lago Agrio. Drive from Lago Agrio to El Puente. Afternoon: canoe trip down the Cuyabeno River to our camp site. Night: dinner and exiting night walk.

    10. Day 10 Cuyabeno

      Cuyabeno River. Morning: three hour hike in the primary forest to learn about flora and fauna, including lessons in the use of plants for survival. Late afternoon: Relax, sunset at Laguna Grande with a chance for some refreshing swimming and caiman (alligator) searching.

    11. Day 11 Cuyabeno

      Cuyabeno River. Morning: An hour and a half boat ride down the river to a Siona indigenous community to interact and learn about their traditions and customs by making some local food. After a visit to a shaman to learn about his secrets and ncestral knowledge of shamanism. At night we enjoy watching hundreds

    12. Day 12 Cuyabeno - Lago Agrio

      El Puente – Lago Agrio – Quito. Early morning: Bird watching from a 25 meters high tower. Breakfast: journey up Cuyabeno River to El Puente. Drive to Lago Agrio (arrive in Lago Agrio in the afternoon).

    13. Day 13 Lago Agrio -

      Lago Agrio – El Puente. Flight (9:00.) or bus ride (one day before – 8 hour ride) to Lago Agrio. Drive from Lago Agrio to El Puente. Afternoon: canoe trip down the Cuyabeno River to our camp site. Night: dinner and exiting night walk.

    14. Day 14 Cuyabeno

      Cuyabeno River. Morning: three hour hike in the primary forest to learn about flora and fauna, including lessons in the use of plants for survival. Late afternoon: Relax, sunset at Laguna Grande with a chance for some refreshing swimming and caiman (alligator) searching.

    15. Day 15 Cuyabeno

      Cuyabeno River. Morning: An hour and a half boat ride down the river to a Siona indigenous community to interact and learn about their traditions and customs by making some local food. After a visit to a shaman to learn about his secrets and ncestral knowledge of shamanism. At night we enjoy watching hundreds

    16. Day 16 Cuyabeno - Lago Agrio

      El Puente – Lago Agrio – Quito. Early morning: Bird watching from a 25 meters high tower. Breakfast: journey up Cuyabeno River to El Puente. Drive to Lago Agrio (arrive in Lago Agrio in the afternoon).