Upon your arrival in the city of Coca, you will be picked up by our staff to begin your adventure. You will have the option of having lunch before starting the trip to the lodge, which is inside 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 last 2 hours in land transport and 2,5 hours in a motorized canoe that will cross the Shiripuno River with the whole extension of the park adorning the landscape. We will arrive at Shiripuno eco-lodge where you will enjoy a delicious dinner. Also, you will have a traditional welcome drink along with a small introductory talk by the assigned native guide.

After a delicious breakfast in the morning, you will cross the Shiripuno River by canoe to the other bank to begin your hike on the Mirador Trail through the virgin rainforest where you will experience wildlife at its best, surrounded by the enveloping sounds of nature and the cries of howler monkeys. Once there, the views of the deep jungle will captivate your eyes and provide the perfect environment to spot many animals living in the treetops, such as large eagles, toucans, parrots, etc. The duration of the circle walk is approximately 3 to 4 hours and at the end you will take the canoe back to the camp.

We will enjoy a delicious local lunch in a place full of history and tradition, which was a typical house rebuilt and now is the dining room of visitors.

In the afternoon, with a short one-hour canoe trip to the Tapir Trail, which lasts around three hours. into the pristine forest, it’s time to look for more wildlife, such us Tapirs, Large Monkeys, and other ground mammals, We will return to the camp and enjoy a delicious dinner, to then go on a night walk of about 1 hour where you can see amphibians, reptiles, a lot of different types of insects and arachnids.

In the morning we will take a hike in the pristine forest to the clay lick the earliest possible. It is one of our best adventures in the jungle, visiting the Lamederos or Saladeros (Animal clay lick) where there is a big concentration of different species animals such us peccaries, deer, rodents and some colorful birds such us; parrots, macaws, and sometimes few predators surrounding the area. They come to feed on the clay from the mineral-enriched ground, which helps them digest and detoxifies from the poisons of their main diet. Such places are unique in the Amazon rainforest; because they offer a great chance to see a wide range of Amazon wildlife species.

After lunch we will take a short cane ride down the river to enjoy some piranha fishing and return in the dark to look out for the active nocturnal alligators called caimans in the Amazon, we have four species that live in these waters and the most common is the white caiman or spectacled caiman, we will be looking for their eyes in the dark with powerful flashlights.