Price: £2795 per person
Today is an arrival day and a day for leisure. Meet the other participants and the guides in the evening and get ready for this macro photo tour.
Overnight in Puembo.
Meals included: None
Today we start early and travel to the Ecuadorian Amazon. Our destination is Tena, approx. 4h drive away. We set in to our accommodation and will start exploring the forest nearby.
Overnight in Tena.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
We will have two full days to explore the rain forest around Tena. We will be looking mainly for snakes and frogs, but wasps and tarantulas can also offer great photography opportunities.
Overnight in Tena.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
We will head back towards the Northwest of the country, to the cloud forest of Mindo. Mindo is an excellent base to discover the area. There is high amphibian diversity among different elevations that can be discovered during the next 1,5 day. We will also try to find the endemic Pinocchio anole (Anolis proboscis).
Overnight in Mindo.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
We will head further West, to the region near Milpe. We will have 2, days to look for poison frogs, glass frogs, dwarf iguanas and other snakes.
Overnight near Milpe.
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
We have our last excursion during the day, and then we will return to Quito/Puembo for the afternoon.
Overnight in Puembo
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch
After breakfast you will be transferred to Quito Airport for our departure flight.
Meals included: Breakfast
Quito Area
San Jose de Puembo Hotel (Premium)
The hotel is locared in Puembo, around 15km from Quito’s International Airport. It is a converted hacienda from the 18th century. It is a perfect start and end point of this holiday. The hotel offers comfortable rooms and is surrounded by lush gardens.
Tena – The Ecuadorian Amazon
Rio Napo Lodge
A somewhat simple, but comfortable lodge in the Amazon, near Tena. Is it located right next to the Napo River.
Mindo
The Yellow House
A rustic, but comfortable lodge in the Mindo area that will be our base while we explore the cloud forest.
Milpe
Wayanad Wild – CGH Earth
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Iacopo Nerozzi
Iacopo earned a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Florence with a thesis on the herpetofauna of Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, and a Master’s degree in Nature Sciences and Management at the University of Bologna, focusing on the ecology of Italian vipers.
As a freelance professional, he works on regional and european LIFE monitoring projects as a herpetologist and entomologist. Also, he is the author of some scientific publications.
A lifelong nature enthusiast, he spent his childhood glued to wildlife documentaries—often at the expense of his retinal health. With a pathological passion for reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates, he has always wondered how to make others’ eyes light up at the sight of a snake’s flickering tongue or the frantic scuttle of a beetle.
Camera in hand, he chases everything “unaesthetic” to share—through his Instagram profile @unaesthetic_fauna—the overlooked wonders of the tiny world that surrounds us. Some of his photographs have been awarded in international and national photo contests like Environmental Photography Award, Big Picture, Asferico, IBC Photo Awards and made an appearance on international journals like BBC Wildlife Magazine, The Guardian, Forbes and Journal of Zoology.
This is a 10-day macro photo focused tour led by Iacopo Nerozzi, an Italian biologist and macro photographer. We will visit three biomes, the Ecuadorian Amazon, the cloud forests of Mindo and the Choco foothills near Milpe.
We will be looking for reptiles and amphibian and also some interesting invertebrates, including arachnids, katydids and many more.
Besides Iacopo, a Spanish biologist and long-time Ecuadorian resident, Jaime Culebras will accompany the group and share knowledge of the country.
The days will be spent by looking for animals in the forest, expect longer nights as most species are nocturnal. If you are keen to learn about macro photography this is a perfect tour for you. This is a small group experience with a maximum of 6 guests.
Ecuador is located on the northwestern part of South- America. It lays on the Equator; this is where its name comes from. One of the smallest countries on the continent holds a fantastic variety of landscapes; from the lowland rainforests of the West to the high Andean peaks to the Amazon on the East.
Ecuador has 11 National Parks, 9 Ecological Reserves and 4 Biological Reserves.
The country is a wildlife hotspot; there are more than 1600 species of birds living in this area, 300 of them are endemic to the region.
The cloud forests are full of hummingbirds; the rainforests give shelter to parrots, caimans, and the elusive jaguar; the paramos of the Andes are home to the Andean fox and the endangered Blue-throated Hillstar. Ecuador is an excellent travel destination which combines the options to visit these unique ecosystems and some beautiful colonial towns like Quito ad Cuenca.
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