La Selva Lodge
La Selva jungle and rainforest lodge is in Ecuador's Primary Rainforest. Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest is a tropical garden of colorful blossoms, billowing ferns and giant trees providing a green sanctuary to rare and exotic wildlife with intriguing insects, unique species of birds and butterflies and magical sceneries. The rain stimulates the Amazon rainforest’s luxuriant growth and drenches the visitor who comes to see the spectacle. In other words the Amazon Rainforest is LA SELVA Jungle Lodge reason of existence.
La Selva Jungle lodge boasts 17 thatched-roofed cabins, and a spacious dining room, aslo with a cone-shaped roof. The lodges of La Selva Jungle Lodge come of a native design: rustic, authentic and comfortable. The lodges can be described as private bungalows that are dry, cozy and immaculately clean. They are made entirely of secondary rainforest materials and are designed to blend with Ecuador's Jungle. Each lodge has a private bathroom, a hammock and a mosquito netting in each bed.
La Selva Jungle Lodge has unexpected amenities such as hot water. Everything at La Selva Jungle Lodge is sanitary beyond your wildest expectations. Other gathering spots at La Selva include an open-air bar and lounge area with a wrap-around view of the lake. You can sneak a siesta (spanish for nap) in the hammock hut, or spend some lazing about and reviewing photos of the day on your digitial camera.
Day 1 - Saturday
Quito - La Selva Lodge
Visitors fly from Quito to Coca, where you will be met at the airport and provided with transport to La Selva Lodge. LD
Day 2 - Sunday
La Selva Lodge
Today you have the choice of 2 optional Excursions: Pedro's and Mandicocha Trails. There are two versions of Pedro's Trail, a 4-hour excursion, crossing Garzacocha lake, walking through the virgin forest and arriving at the tower, and a 2-hour excursion through the Butterfly farm. The Mandicocha Trail is an easy excursion close to La Selva Jungle Lodge which is usually filled with wildlife. BLD
Day 3 - Monday
La Selva Lodge
you will be taken on the Pilche Trail where you will cross the Garzacocha Lake and walk for one hour or more. Through the Pilche Trail you will see an enormous colony of leafcutter ants and whatever wildlife may come your way. La Selva Jungle Lodge has also canoe or walking trips after dark to view nocturnal animals such as caiman, monkeys, insects and owls. BLD
Day 4 - Tuesday
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Today you have the choice of 2 optional Excursions: Chawamango's Trail and El Salado Excursion. - Chawamango's Trail is a three-hour excursion east at Mandicocha trailhead and along the Mandicocha lake to the Napo River. You will return to La Selva Jungle Lodge by an elevated walkway and cross Garzacocha by canoe. El Salado Excursion is a two-hour excursion often combined with a picnic lunch and trips across the Napo River. Visit a site where, with a little luck, parrots and parakeets can be seen by the thousands.BLD
Day 5 - Wednesday
La Selva Lodge - Coca - Quito
Transport will be provided to the airport in Coca, where you will take the flight back to Quito. B
