Environmentally friendly methods such as solar energy, biodegradable soaps and trash recycling systems are utilized. However, the 20 double rooms do not lack comfort with private baths, sun-heated showers and electricity. Each room has a wide terrace from which you can observe daily visits from ducks, hummingbirds, egrets and parrots, or listen to the music of the frogs at night. Achuar guides at Kapawi work with naturalist guides, who are expert biologists fluent in English as well as other languages. The Achuar can recognize every one of the 500 species of birds found in Kapawi, distinguish every tree and explain its medicinal or practical uses.
Moderate hikes are up to five hours.
Demanding hikes with exploration journeys to virgin areas and on inaccessible rivers are available for persons in excellent physical condition looking for hard adventure. This trek will take us from fertile valleys to a highland plateau at the base of the Cotopaxi. It allows you to experience varying Andean ecosystems and gives exposure to ancient cultures, walking past colonial haciendas and Indian communities with their adobe huts. The lodge is a 45 minute flight to Coca, followed by a motor canoe trip of 50 miles down the Napo river. Surrounded by ancient black-water lagoons, winding creeks and towering trees, visitors may search for monkeys and tropical birds in this haven for nature lovers.