4-Day / 3-Night Amazon Nature Experience
Small groups explore the diversity of life in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
Four Days. One Genuinely Remote Rainforest.
If you have limited time but still want the real thing — not a packaged, crowd-heavy circuit — four days at Shiripuno is enough to feel the difference. You’ll wake to the sound of the forest, spend long hours on the trails and the river, and go out after dark when the rainforest changes completely: frogs, snakes, insects, and spiders that only reveal themselves at night.
This isn’t a wildlife park. Nothing is guaranteed — and for the traveler who wants something genuinely wild rather than curated, that’s exactly the point.
Price: $180 per person, per day · $720 total
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- The colors and shapes of insects in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve would blow your mind.
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- Small groups explore the diversity of life of Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
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- Shiripuno Lodge – Dinning Room lighted with candles to keep an armony with the forest creatures.
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- Mirador Trail. Shiripuno’s best trail to watch the forest of the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador.
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- Shiripuno Lodge -Meals
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- Shiripuno Lodge – Our low nature impact lodging facilities in equilibrium with nature.
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- Shiripuno Lodge – Hammocks Lounge to relax after forest activities.
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- The Waorani Guides explain the use of plants for daily use items such as hammocks, string bags, fishing lines. The forest provided everything people needed.
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- The Smooth-fronted Caiman likes to eat catfish.
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- Striking colors prevent it to be eaten, the importance of coloration in the creatures of the forest.
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- Cookenia Cup Amazonian Mushroom ~ Shiripuno Lodge – Beautiful
4-Day Itinerary:
DAY 01: Quito-Coca by airplane. From Coca, we’ll travel 90 km south into the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve and Waorani Ethnic Reserve by local transportation to the Shiripuno River (approx. 2:30 hrs). Box lunch will be served on site.
Afterwards, we’ll navigate 65 km downstream with a motorized canoe to reach the Shiripuno Lodge; our canoe journey will take approximately 4 hours depending on water levels. It will be your first experience with the wide diversity of wildlife of the Amazonian Rainforest. Dinner and lodging at the Shiripuno Lodge.
Shiripuno Lodge – The colors and shapes of insects in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve would blow your mind.
DAY 02: Breakfast. We’ll navigate to start our morning hike (3-4 hrs.) Into pristine Rainforest along the Mirador Trail; the aim of this trail is to share with you scenic views of the Amazon Basin and show you millions of reasons to preserve the Rainforest for future generations.
Gene crossing in the most biodiverse place on Earth!
Our team of Waorani and Naturalist guides will drive you with information and explanations about the biodiversity of the rainforest and the medicinal plants used by indigenous people. This hike requires good physical condition. Lunch.
In the afternoon, catch-and-release Piranha Fishing along the Shiripuno River. Dinner and lodging at the Shiripuno Lodge.
Shiripuno Lodge – Striking colors prevent it from being eaten; the importance of coloration in the creatures of the forest.
DAY 03: Before breakfast. We’ll descend the Shiripuno River and listen to the Rainforest waking up!!! Birds and mammals getting up!! Breakfast. Then we’ll go to a back-door trail to explore different types of forest and increase our chance to find more animals. Lunch.
In the afternoon, we will take the motor canoe and make an excursion into one of the small oxbow lakes, where it is possible to see different kinds of plants and animals such as the bizarre bird Hoatzins.
We will explore the Rainforest at night, searching for nocturnal fauna. Dinner and lodging at the Shiripuno Lodge.
Shiripuno Lodge – Learning about the nature of the Amazon Rainforest, its diversity of life during our hikes.
DAY 04: After breakfast, navigate upstream to the Waorani Community; early canoe rides are great to spot animals crossing the river such as Capybaras, tapirs, or resting Caimans; birds such as Macaws and Toucans also can be seen from the canoe.
At the Waorani Community, you will see the effects of cultural expose by which are living all the different indigenous groups in the Amazon.
The Waorani still keep most of their traditions such as: hunting with blowguns and poisoned darts, their unique language Wao Terero, the knowledge of the rainforest, and oral traditions.
Responsible tourism brings revenues to all the families at different levels by selling handicrafts, canoe drivers, native guides, housekeeping, kitchen assistants, and other activities. Lunch on the River.
We’ll continue the navigation upstream to the bridge, where we are going to take the bus back to Coca (arrival at 16:30 approx.).