Direct booking now available through the Napo Wildlife Center sales office:

Call Toll Free from the US: 1-866-750-0830

Telefax: (+593-2) 600-5819

To get to Napo Wildlife Center (map), guests fly by jet from Quito to the town of Coca (officially known as Francisco de Orellana) on the Napo River. After a short drive from the airport to the dock, we board a large, motorized, covered canoe for a scenic two-hour trip down the Napo River. Upon arriving at the entrance to the NWC Reserve, we switch to smaller, dugout canoes and are paddled up the blackwater creek to the lake and lodge (no motorized transport is allowed on the creek or lake so that wildlife isn't disturbed).

This paddle can take anywhere from one to three hours, as on the creek guests might see Giant Otters, potoos, kingfishers, Hoatzins, jacamars, hawks, and monkeys. We eat lunch en route and arrive at the lodge by late afternoon. We have put together a GPS waypoint file (in Garmin MapSource format) for our guests who use GPS units.

Departures are possible any day of the week except Sunday (because there are no flights to Coca on Sundays). We recommend no fewer than 4 days/3nights at Napo Wildlife Center, and find that our guests prefer 5 days/4 nights because it allows them to take advantage of all of the attractions.

Lodge rates include all food, purified drinking water, local guide service, entry into the parrot clay lick blinds (currently $20 per person), and the entry fee for Yasuní National Park (currently $10 per person). Alcoholic beverages are not included, but are available.

Lodge rates generally do not include round-trip airfare Quito-Coca-Quito. The vast majority of travelers, however, purchase airfare through the lodge to avoid any potential problems with incompatible flight schedules.