Arrival of the guests in the early afternoon at Puerto Barantillas. We collect you with large, secure motor-canoes and let us drift downstream 2km until Liana Lodge, to take in the sound of the rainforest. After a welcome cocktail you move into your bungalow. If you feel like, you can go for a swim on a sandy beach at the Rio Arajuno. At dinner in the lodge we do put together your individual rainforest-program.

After breakfast we go on a rainforest tour in the Selva Viva forest preserve with picnic at the Rio Rodriguez, that has a crystal clear color if it is not raining , opportunity to take a swim. Our forest guide is Quichua Indio, who is additionally educated by our biologists, and who is absolutely familiar with the flora and fauna of the rainforest. Part of the tour leads through a creek with fossiled wood trunks , one of the main attractions of the area. Return to the hotel in the afternoon. After the Siesta we will be guided from on of the volunteers through the animal center amaZOOnico. Here you can experience free living monkeys and other rainforest inhabitants from close. Return to the hotel and dinner.

If required bird watching at sunrise. Take your binoculars and a lot of patience! After breakfast we paddle with a wide, save but simple canoe to the island Anaconda and visit a Quichua- Family who gives us an impression in their way of living. We will see the garden, maybe harvest Yucca (Maniok) together, make Chicha and exercise with the blow-gun. Lunch at the lodge. In the afternoon we make a boat-tour with the motor-canoe to Rio Napo, the largest Amazon-river in Ecuador up to the top of the island Anaconda. There we will build a traditional Quichua raft and we'll let us drift downstream the river Rio Arajuno back to the Lodge. Dinner is at the lodge. Afterwards there might be the possibility to have a visit from the shaman of the Quichua community who introduces us to the believes of the Quichuas and their traditional healing.

Breakfast. Return to Quito.