Otobo's Amazon Safari
All the tours to Otobo’s Amazon Safari are tailor made, depending on several factors such as age of the guests, their purposes and interests. We offer several options to arrive and depart Otobo’s community and we can organize your transportation to fit your needs.
Both in the canoe and in the small aircraft, the maximum weight allowed for your luggage is 23kg/50lb and for the handpack 7kg/15lb.
ARRIVAL OPTIONS
Fly-in
Arrival to Otobo’s main campsite in Boanamo could be a 1 hour flight from Shell-Puyo to Bameno. Bameno is a Huaorani community located downstream and from there Boanamo’s campsite is (about 2 hours by motorized canoe). reachable in 2 hours by motorized canoe.
DEPARTURE OPTIONS
Fly-out
Departure from Boanamo’s campsite by motorized canoe for 2 hours and arrival to Bameno followed by a 1 hour flight to Shell-Puyo.
Motorized canoe
Another option is to fly from Quito to Coca (about ½ an hour flight) or alternatively to arrive to Coca by bus (7 hours). After meeting in Coca, we go by taxi on the Auca road and in 2 hours reach the Shiripuno river, where we board on the motorized canoe. Depending on the water level it takes 7-11 hours to reach the campsite so we usually pass the first night on a beach for camping or by a Huaorani community along the way. Sometimes tourists prefer to skip the camping experience in order to reach straight Boanamo; in this case we have to leave Coca really early in the morning after one night in the Hotel.
Motorized canoe
7-11 hours by motorized canoe to the bridge on the Shiripuno river and then 2 hours taxi to Coca. There’s the possibility to stop the last night for camping along the river or by an indigenous community.