Day Jungle Tour in the Napo River of Ecuador from Tena
Tena, Ecuador
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 10 hours
Tour the jungle from a motor canoe. First we’ll drive out to a beach where we’ll feed grapes to playful capuchin monkeys. Then we’ll take a motor canoe downriver to a shelter out by the river for a chocolate making demo. Just so you know, the chocolate is incredible! Further downriver we’ll make stops at an amazing butterfly farm and an animal rehab center, with pit stops for a riverside picnic lunch and to check out an island that woolly monkeys frequent. We’ll return via a long upriver ride in the motor canoe.
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Tour the jungle from a motor canoe. First we’ll drive out to a beach where we’ll feed grapes to playful capuchin monkeys. Then we’ll take a motor canoe downriver to a shelter out by the river for a chocolate making demo. Just so you know, the chocolate is incredible! Further downriver we’ll make stops at an amazing butterfly farm and an animal rehab center, with pit stops for a riverside picnic lunch and to check out an island that woolly monkeys frequent. We’ll return via a long upriver ride in the motor canoe.This is our day jungle tour, aka our all day, do everything we do on the Napo River extravaganza. It starts at 8:30am and finishes around 6:30pm. To get an idea of this tour, imagine yourself on a motor canoe. The wind is on your face along with a fine spray of water. You’re cruising through pristine jungle. It’s gorgeous and you’re away from it all. Yeah! Okay, okay, the tour actually starts in Tena with a 30 minute drive out to the beach where we’ll catch that motor canoe.
But first, we’ll get a chance to interact with capuchin monkeys. They hang out on the beach where we board the canoe. We’ll feed these intelligent and playful beings grapes and if you like, let the younger ones climb onto your shoulder. Watch your cameras!
The rest of the tour is accessed from the canoe.
First stop, a chocolate and chicha making demonstration. The final product is probably the best tasting chocolate fondue you’ve ever tasted, served up with bananas and strawberries. Yummy!
A Kichwa woman named Martha or her daughter usually do the demo. It’s done out there in the jungle under a shelter by their cacao trees and fields of yuca and plantain. You’ll see how chocolate is made from the pod to the, well, the fondue in this case. (Drying the cacao seeds and fermenting the yuca into chicha, an indigenous drink, both take 3 days. So they just tell you about those parts.)
Next up, an amazing butterfly farm. There are so many butterflies, they literally land on you. We’ll then continue on to the Amazoonico Animal Rehab Center with 2 pit stops on the way.
One where we often see squirrel monkeys and like to stop for our picnic lunch and another that woolly monkeys tend to frequent.
The guides at the rehab center are volunteers from all over the world that speak a variety of languages.
One of them will take you through the facility, where you will see all sorts of jungle animals including various types of jungle cats, monkeys, birds, etc.
We’ll return via a long upriver motor canoe ride back the way we came, then return to Tena by car. Sound awesome? It is! Come join us, we look forward to meeting and sharing this little corner of the world with you.
But first, we’ll get a chance to interact with capuchin monkeys. They hang out on the beach where we board the canoe. We’ll feed these intelligent and playful beings grapes and if you like, let the younger ones climb onto your shoulder. Watch your cameras!
The rest of the tour is accessed from the canoe.
First stop, a chocolate and chicha making demonstration. The final product is probably the best tasting chocolate fondue you’ve ever tasted, served up with bananas and strawberries. Yummy!
A Kichwa woman named Martha or her daughter usually do the demo. It’s done out there in the jungle under a shelter by their cacao trees and fields of yuca and plantain. You’ll see how chocolate is made from the pod to the, well, the fondue in this case. (Drying the cacao seeds and fermenting the yuca into chicha, an indigenous drink, both take 3 days. So they just tell you about those parts.)
Next up, an amazing butterfly farm. There are so many butterflies, they literally land on you. We’ll then continue on to the Amazoonico Animal Rehab Center with 2 pit stops on the way.
One where we often see squirrel monkeys and like to stop for our picnic lunch and another that woolly monkeys tend to frequent.
The guides at the rehab center are volunteers from all over the world that speak a variety of languages.
One of them will take you through the facility, where you will see all sorts of jungle animals including various types of jungle cats, monkeys, birds, etc.
We’ll return via a long upriver motor canoe ride back the way we came, then return to Tena by car. Sound awesome? It is! Come join us, we look forward to meeting and sharing this little corner of the world with you.
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