Visiting the Yasuni National Park is one of the things you must do if you plan to make a trip to Ecuador. In this blog, I will explain why you should visit this Amazonian treasure between Napo and Orellana’s provinces!
Pack your luggage and venture out to discover this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
1. Overflowing Nature
Once you arrive in Orellana and get on the boat to the Yasuní National Park across the Napo River, you will have a spectacular experience where you can see diverse trees and plants that will make you feel small in the face of such majesty. But the adventure doesn’t start there because that’s just the journey to your destination. The true magic happens when you get there and you take a canoe trip, there is where you start seeing all kinds of nature and animals, it will shock you to see all of them together in an ecosystem.
You can find animals such as caimans, birds, frogs, snakes, monkeys, butterflies, ants, turtles, slobs, possums, armadillos, bats, spiders, otters, and if you are lucky also jaguars and pink dolphins.
On the other hand, if you are a super fan of plants, flowers, and fungi you can find tons of species and types that will make your knowledge about this topic grow even more.
2. Comfort in a wild environment
Sometimes it’s crazy to think that you can find comfort in the middle of the jungle, but it’s a key point for you to start a new adventure and enjoy your stay in the yasuní national park. That is why the Napo Wildlife Center is a perfect option to live an adventure in the jungle and be comfortable in the facilities of the establishment. The services at the lodge will make you live a luxurious experience within the Ecuadorian Amazon, it has facilities such as a bar-restaurant, a souvenir shop, a conference room, and an observation tower where you can see the jungle from a high point of the location.
During the night and after a long day of hiking and learning, the cabins are an ideal place to take a break, take a hot shower, and then share a nice dinner or have a drink with your friends or family. In addition to that, it is important to emphasize that the lodge will provide you with all meals, and a guide who can take you on different types of excursions. If the weather is rainy, the lodge also has rain ponchos and boots for the mud.
3. Discover Culture and Tradition
Apart from the incredible surroundings that will involve you on this new trip, and beyond getting to know the area, you will be able to enrich yourself with the culture and traditions of the people who live near the zone. Some communities are considered uncontacted tribes, the best known are the Tagaeri and the Taromenane. Although it is difficult to come into contact with these tribes, the guides know about their lifestyle and will tell you about their ancestors and how they live in the modern world.
Unlike the not contacted tribes, the Kichwa Indigenous community also lives there and explains their daily life and how tourism has not only given them a source of work to live on but also how one can survive in a panorama as big as that of the jungle. They are also a community that is more open connecting with visitors and explaining their culture and traditions.
So why don’t you take the risk and experience it yourself?
4. The journey will transform you
Who doesn’t love to travel? This trip will not only open your eyes to the external beauty of our world, it will provide you with learning and will make you understand other realities that we do not experience every day.
You will meet new people or even other travelers where you can share opinions and create bonds of friendship, furthermore, you are giving your health a benefit. Disconnecting is essential to return to daily routine life with all the energy and renewed ideas for your benefit.
Finally, this experience will help you appreciate more what we have today and it will give you the initiative to take care of the environment so our future generations can keep enjoying it.
