Day 1 - Arrival to your Amazon Lodge

Day one starts after being collected from your hotel in Quito before a short flight to Coca. After making your way to the docks of the Napo River, you board a motorized canoe and embark on a two-hour trip downstream.

At the end of the first leg you arrive at the beginning of the Sacha Reserve, where you traverse a boardwalk for half an hour until you reach the shores of Lake Pilchicocha. After hopping into canoes, Sacha Lodge staff takes you across the lake to the Rainforest luxury lodge.

One suggestion for the first day is a visit to the Butterfly House, where you can explore the breeding process of some of the forty species of butterflies that thrive in the Sacha Reserve.

Yellow swallowtails, blue morphs, glass-wing butterflies, and nocturnal owl butterflies are a few of the species that you can observe up close in the open air, flying room - a butterfly sanctuary where the winged creatures have the rule of the roost.