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Canoe & Lodge Safaris in the Amazon Flooded Forest
This experience combines lodge based accommodation with a dugout canoe journey which itself  incorporates a night of fully catered 'fly camping' in the Amazon wilderness.  Our guides include an indigenous Siona Indian and expert natural history guides who can lead you through the heart of the 1.2 million acre Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve.  The scenery here is an inspiring mix of lowland rainforest, lakes and rivers and is home to at least 515 species of bird, 12,000 species of plant, 15 species of monkey, Giant River Otters, Tapir and Pink River Dolphins.  This is what we would classify as an Adventure Class experience in terms of accommodation, whilst we offer a more premium version of Canoe & Lodge Safari based out of a lodge on the Rio Napo.

Kapawi Lodge is a joint venture ecotourism project between an Ecuadorian business and the Achuar people.  Here you will have the opportunity to explore some of the country's finest Amazon River wildlife and learn how tourism, conservation and the rights of Ecuador's indigenous people are working together.  The journey to Kapawi is an experience in itself flying you over the heart of Ecuador's least disturbed lowland Amazon rainforests to the Pastaza River.  This experience provides you with probably the best combination of culture, wildlife, Amazon scenery and premium ecolodge accommodation.

Yachana Ecolodge and Sustainable Development Project
The award-winning Yachana ecolodge was built by Rainforest Concern's partner in the Amazon: FUNEDESIN (Foundation for Integrated Education and Development).  Established by American born Douglas McMeekin, FUNEDESIN is dedicated to finding sustainable solutions between the ideals of rainforest conservation and the realities of life in a part of the Amazon where growing numbers of indigenous Quichua and colonistas live.  Aqua-Firma arranges a behind the scenes view of FUNEDESIN's programmes in community healthcare, education, sustainable agricultural alternatives, and jungle treks in a 2,000 hectare reserve purchased for the organisation by Rainforest Concern.

La Selva was Ecuador's first high quality jungle lodge and Aqua-Firma's first introduction to the Amazon when Director Ralph Pannell led a primate research expedition to forests in its vicinity.  It occupies a stunning position overlooking Garzacocha (Heron Lake).  The smaller Mandicocha lake to the north of the lodge is an excellent place from which to observe schools of freshwater stingrays and explore by dugout the narrow Mandiyacu river.

Napo Wildlife Centre is a more recently established joint venture ecolodge with the indigenous Quichua community of Añangu.  Set on the edge of a lagoon within the Yasuni National Park, this lodge is an ideal place to observe the Giant River Otter as well as other mammals and birds at a salt lick and from a 50m watch tower set above the canopy.