All our trips are
designed to according to your specifications as to the amount of time
available for each guest, budget requirements, level of adventure (hard
and soft), physical requirements and wildlife observations. Most of our
tours include camping, lodge tourism, paddle excursions, hiking,
trekking, canopy towers for birdwatching, etc. After discussion with
each guest, we design each tour according to your specifications and you
are always accompanied on our Amazonian tours with a naturalist and
native guide. If you are a writer, journalist or film maker, we have the
experience, contacts and knowledge to facilitate your work while in the
Ecuadorian Amazon.
TRANSPORT SERVICE
FROM COCA TO IQUITOS:
This transport service to Iquitos Peru is offered for those pressed
with time and for those not planning to a jungle tour.
Join us
in this Amazon adventure from Francisco de Orellana (Coca) to
Iquitos, Peru
We make
an early departure from Coca, Ecuador and travel down the Napo
River. Your dream becomes reality upon meeting the Amazon River.
Activities:
Length of trip:
4 Days/3 Nights
Day One:
After a good breakfast we make an early start in Coca for our 12
hour trip down the Napo River to the Ecuadorian border town of Nueva
Rocafuerte. We are travelling on a public transport boat to the
border. Upon arrival, we head off to our hotel for a good nights
sleep.
Day
Two:
After breakfast, we complete Ecuadorian border procedures before we
travel down the Napo to the Peruvian border town of Pantoja. After
completing Peruvian border procedures we continue down the Napo
River until sunset and look for an ideal campsite on a beach. It
may also be possible to spend the night in one of the locals’
homes.
Day Three: We
continue downstream on the Napo with our final destination of the
day Santa Clotilde. Scheduled arrival time is noon for this Napo
River jungle town. We will spend most of the afternoon exploring
the town and its’ surroundings. Tonight, we will sleep in the local
hotel.
Day Four:
After breakfast, we board a speedboat at 6h00 for our river trip to
Mazan, Peru. Upon our arrival, we take a motor car taxi to the
Amazon River dock and board another speedboat for our trip to
Iquitos, Peru. END OF TRIP
Our prices include:
One night hotel stay in Coca at Hotel San Fermin on the night before
the trip, hotel stay in Nueva Rocafuerte (Hotel del Pueblo), hotel
in Pantoja and/or Hotel in Santa Clotilde, all meals during trip,
river transport and excursions, camping equipment, boots, clean
drinking water, first aid kit on hand.
Does
not include:
Airfare Quito-Coca ($60.00), bus transport ($10.00), alcoholic
drinks at bar, entrance fee ($25.00) for YNP. While in Iquitos,
Peru you will have safe accommodations in a hotel. Please note that
meals and accommodations are not included in the price of the trip
when in Iquitos Peru.
Do not hesitate to contact us should the client wish to have us
make air travel arrangements. It is preferable that a client send
the price of the tickets for advanced purchase as this will
guarantee their reservation. Should the client wish private
transport from Quito to Coca, do not hesitate to contact us so that
we may organize suitable transport.
Payment
methods:
Reservation is guaranteed upon reception of 50% of the package price
through a bank wire order. Total payment must be received 30 days
before trip date. Should the client make last minute reservations
(15 days or less before departure), total payment is required upon
reservation of the tour.
It
is important to be flexible for this trip as upon a rare occasion,
the boat arrives the following day in Coca. Always be prepared for
adventure when travelling on a river through the Amazon. Assuming
we arrive on schedule at approximately 19h00, a comfortable private
room and bathroom awaits you at the Hotel San Fermin in Coca. You
may also invite yourself to one of the many restaurants that exist
in Coca. Please note that dinner is not included in the price during
your stay in Coca. END OF TRIP.
Types
of Transport:
Type of
Transport
Length in
Metres
Width in
Metres
Passenger
Capacity
HP Motor
Eco/Yamaha
From - To
Speed Boat
10
3.00
20
200
Iquitos-Mazan
Motor Car
2.5
1.20
2
125 Yamaha
Mazan-Napo
River
Private
Motor Boat
12
1.50
6
45
Sta.
Clotilde-Nueva Rocafuerte
Public Boat
Transport
25
3.00
60
175 (2
motors)
Nueva
Rocafuerte-Coca
Please be advised that we are not responsible for weather
conditions, mechanical problems, trip delays (# of days), river
conditions etc., during your trip. Time is looked at differently in
developing countries and your patience would be greatly
appreciated. Should we run into problems along the river, our “No
Refund” policy will hold through. For much of the duration of these
trips you will be without basic services, especially while camping
or spending the night with an indigenous family. Please note that
will always have clean drinking water for you during your trip.
Please be sure you have personal medications with you, should you
require these.
Our clients may be interested in our video explaining our Ecuador to
Peru trip. The images and footage will give you an idea of our trip
from Coca to Iquitos.
We
look forward to meeting and travelling with you!
History of the Napo River
In February 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro set out from Quito in search
of El Dorado and cinnamon with over 10,000 animals and humans
including over 200 Spaniards, 4,000 indigenous people, 2,000
pigs, and much the same in numbers for llamas, horses and dogs.
Francisco de Orellana joined the expedition at Sumaco without
knowing the severe problems that the Pizarro expedition faced.
A 100 of the expedition members died from cold exposure,
twenty-five miles outside of Quito in the Andean highlands. The
expedition also faced many difficulties including Indian
attacks, crossing mountain ranges, hacking through forests,
crossing rivers, traveling through heavy rains and facing
hunger, sickness and death.
When Pizarro and Orellana joined forces, more of the same
problems still occurred. To avoid starvation, expedition
members ate all their llamas, dogs, horses and desperately
searched for the help of indigenous tribes to avoid starvation.
Since this expedition was desperately going wrong, Orellana
suggested that he be allowed to continue downriver from the
junction of the Coca and Cosanga Rivers in search for food.
Both he and Pizarro agreed that Orellana would look for and
return with food for the other members of the expedition.
Orellana left with about 56 men and a newly constructed rustic
boat leaving Pizarro and 140 men behind. Eventually, Pizarro
and his depleted crew arrived at the junction of the Coca and
the Napo but many of the expedition members had died and
Orellana had already left downriver on the Napo to discover the
Amazon River. Pizarro felt betrayed since Orellana did not
return with food but it would have been impossible to paddle
upriver against the current and Orellana moved on facing Indian
attacks from the many tribes he encountered. Orellana was very
violent and cruel towards any tribe that did not cooperate with
his group.
Pizarro dropped the expedition and Orellana and his surviving
crew eventually reached it’s destination in August 1542. Upon
his return to Spain, Orellana managed to avoid the legalities of
his supposed betrayal despite Pizarro and his false accusations.
Transport Boat Public
Indian Home
Transport Private From Nuevo Rocafuerte to Santa Clotilde
