Cuyabeno Lodge: Your Family Friendly Comfortable Home To Get To Know The Tropical Forest of the Amazon

Cuyabeno Lodge: Your Family Friendly Comfortable Home To Get To Know The Tropical Forest of the Amazon

by Dr. Vreugdenhil

Can this happen to you? You wished to see a great deal of birds and mammals in the Amazon so you booked, what seemed a great trip to the Amazon Rainforest. You spent a lot of time as well as money to get there, but all you have seen up to now is a lot of trees and leaves. Where are the animals?

But a majority of the mammals and most birds actually live up high in the tree crowns. Therefore, you can hardly see them since the trees in the rainforest tend to be up to 30 m high. While, you look up from the darkness of the forest floor, the leaves seem very dark because light of the sky blinds you, making the leaves seem almost black. Under such light conditions, it's extremely difficult to distinguish and identify birds and mammals, if you aren't a very experienced observer.

It is much easier to observe wildlife and flowers from the water since they navigate around, respectively are in the shrubs and lower branches of the trees along the shores. But such advantage primarily works well with creeks.

Often, the rivers are extremely wide so that they can almost appear seas. Along the narrow creeks on the other hand, one feels in the heart of the forest while the river still reveals the sky enough to see the lower trees and shrubs on the shore and there is enough light to watch birds, flowers and mammals in the undergrowth.

As upper watersheds have the streams, aforementioned are most common in the foothills of the lower Andes. But with the terrain being hilly in the majority of the upper Amazon, few rivers near the Andes are navigable and there are only very few lakes in the lowlands of the Andes-Amazon countries. Cuyabeno Fauna Reserve, however, has a uniquely flat plain. It is a large plate with a shallow exit, forcing water to rise and thus creating more than a dozen of scenic lakes, interconnected by creeks and narrow natural canals. The park is amongst the few parks in the world exactly on the equator.

Hardly any other Amazon reserve in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru or Bolivia is indeed so conveniently accessible as Cuyabeno and worldwide, no other Amazon park can be reached so comfortably and at such affordable prices. Merely a half hour's flight from Quito to oil town LagoAgrio at the Amazon headwaters, and another hour and a half ride in a bus over a new paved road gets you to the park. No surprise that many consider Cuyabeno the world's best humid tropical forest of the Amazon reserve!

Of the about a dozen or so lodges in the Cuyabeno Reserve, the Cuyabeno Lodge equipped and located on the shore of Cuyabeno Lake. It is certified by the Rainforest Alliance and owned and operated by a small grouping of conservation biologists, the facility was constructed in the nineteen eighties to provide alternative income for local communities when the park was being settled illegally for agricultural purposes. When they started there wasn't any tourism at all.

Nowadays, the reserve has stopped being threatened and with 14,000 visitors annually, the government is conscious about the importance of park. To the owners of the Cuyabeno Lodge, it is crucial that each customer leaves with a lasting impression, not just of Cuyabeno but of the beauty and significance about the entire Amazon Jungle. They always work on improving the quality of both the lodge along with the excursions. A tree crown tower overlooks the lake. With the combined elevation of its observation tower on the top of the hill where the lodge is built, the cellphone system of the lodge gets the best signal in the area. The ranger station of Ecuador's Protected Areas Agency resides on the land of the lodge and the tower functions as the alarm center for the entire area. The lodge also has a solar system that delivers power twenty four hours, facilitating battery charging for cameras and light in every building. The lodge also has hot water for its



Internationally renowned wildlife conservationist Dr. Vreugdenhil tells you what to look out for when you select your destination to explore the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bbdfpnh">Amazon Jungle</a>. To fully enjoy the Rainforest, your <a href="http://tinyurl.com/avzax77">Rainforest Lodge</a> should neither be primitive nor too luxurious.

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