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About this trip
Embark on an extraordinary wildlife and birding adventure as we journey from Ecuador's high Andean páramos to its lush Amazonian rainforests. We have planned this trip to highlight the best of northeast Ecuador. With easy to moderate excursions each day, we will enjoy breathtaking scenery while pursuing sightings of magnificent birds and wildlife.
This carefully curated expedition takes you through three distinct ecosystems, each teeming with unparalleled biodiversity and offering a diverse range of birdwatching and wildlife encounters. From stunted subalpine scrub to cool temperate-zone Andean montane forests, and into lush subtropical and foothill cloud forests, the scenic Andes reveal a breathtaking array bird life, including stunning tanagers, brilliant hummingbirds, and an impressive list of other fabulous birds.
Led by experienced guides and naturalists, this journey supports local conservation efforts. Furthermore, your trip will have a positive impact on local communities while you uncover Ecuador's captivating landscapes and magnificent avian diversity.
This program may be taken in combination with Ecuador: Jewels of the Amazon Lowlands - Napo Wildlife Center.
What’s included
- Transfers airport hotelTransfers from/to international flights - airport - hotel - airport
- Quito hotel for 1 nightUpon arrival to Quito - Ecuador, one night is included under double occupancy, including breakfast
- Private transportationPrivate land transportation for trip participants
- Full boardAll meals from breakfast on day 2 until lunch on day 9
- Pure water and snaksPure water for meals and excursions, including snaks during excursions between meals, please bring a refillable personal water bottle
- Lodging & accommodationsAccommodations under double occupancy at different lodges during the 9 days / 8 nights program
- Professional guideTour leader - bilingual birding and naturalist guide equipped with spotting telescope, local indigenous guides in different lodges
- All excursionsAll excursions during the trip, for the 9 days / 8 nights program
- Admission feesAll admission fees to national parks, private or community-based nature reserves and museums
What’s not included
- International flightsInternational airfares - flights from your home to Quito - Ecuador and back
- Alcoholic drinksAlcoholic drinks and other personal expenses,
- Personal expensesSouvenirs, laundry, and other personal expenses,
- Items not specifiedAny other item not specified in what is included
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From the lush lowland Amazonian rainforests to the high Andean Páramos, Ecuador is indeed a special place, boasting good access to birding and other wildlife habitat, unsurpassed scenic splendor, friendly people, and welcoming mega biodiverse country. Incredibly, over 1,700 species of birds have been recorded in the country, more than 4,500 species of orchids, in an area smaller than the state of Colorado, or just about the size of the UK!
Among them are many of the most spectacular and distinctive Neotropical species. This tour, Ecuador Nature, Birding & Wildlife, from the Andes to the Amazonian Cloud Forests, is designed to sample this magnificent avifauna and wildlife in three diverse areas, the high Andean humid Paramos of Antisana volcano, the Andean Temperate Forests in Cayambe-Coca reserve and Antisana National Park, and finally the eastern Cloud Forests of the Sumaco volcano, representing very different ecosystems, and offering a full range of birding and wildlife possibilities.
This trip explores the heart of the magnificent Ecuadorian Andes on its eastern slope, from the Antisana volcano and national park towards and into lush subtropical and foothill cloud forests. As an extension, you can add and include the eastern lowlands of Amazonian Ecuador within the Yasuni National Park, the most biodiverse tropical rainforest on Earth!