At Napo Wildlife Center the local indigenous community is your host as lodge staff and guides. The Napo Wildlife Center is one of the greatest and ultimate alternative luxury eco hotel in the Amazonian Ecuador as far as possible in the jungle. The two hour speed boat ride up the river and another two hour canoe ride that we took to get the lodge confirms this statement!
The lodge received the First Choice Responsible Tourism Award for its success in creating an exceptional experience for guests while providing a sustainable means of living for the native community.
Thanks to their own initiative and supported by the Tropical Nature Conservation System it is the most carefully designed first class Amazon lodge in Ecuador. From the national airport the flight took an approximately 30 minutes.
While we were waiting at the airport we could not help but notice the heavy clouds that were on top of the Andes Mountains. We learned that our flight would take us over the cloudy looking Eastern Andes Mountain Range mountains.
It was a bumpy flight but fun knowing we were crossing over the equator and when we reached the peak we were looking into snow capped volcanoes over 18, above sea level. When we arrived we were at the headwaters of the Amazon Basin near the Napo River at feet above sea level. They escorted us to waiting cars for a short minute transfer to embark on the covered motorized canoe.
