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Ecuador - Amazon Birding & Wildlife Escape

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Ecuador - Amazon Birding & Wildlife Escape I 2026

16 Aug 2026 - 22 Aug 2026 (7 days)

USD3,495 3 SPACES AVAILABLE

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Tour Leader: Local Leader

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Tour Price (Per person): USD3,495 (GBP2,692 * EUR3,077 * AUD4,992)

Single Supplement: USD970 (GBP747 * EUR854 * AUD1,386)

Flight costs: USD310 (GBP239 * EUR273 * AUD443)

Ecuador - Amazon Birding & Wildlife Escape II 2026

27 Dec 2026 - 02 Jan 2027 (7 days)

USD3,495 SPACES AVAILABLE

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Tour Leader: Local Leader

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Tour Price (Per person): USD3,495 (GBP2,692 * EUR3,077 * AUD4,992)

Single Supplement: USD970 (GBP747 * EUR854 * AUD1,386)

Flight costs: USD310 (GBP239 * EUR273 * AUD443)

Nestled in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon Basin, Sacha Lodge offers incredible access to one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. With just over 600 species recorded in the area, it is a premier destination for birders seeking both sheer diversity and a chance at several iconic South American species. Our tour is designed to explore the mosaic of micro-habitats that make up the Upper Amazon biome- ranging from varzea and terra firme forest to oxbow lakes and both a canopy tower and canopy walkway - maximizing our chances of encountering a remarkable array of avian life.

Among the many highlights we may encounter are Harpy Eagle, Hoatzin, Agami and Zigzag Herons, Grey-winged Trumpeter, Sungrebe, Scarlet, Blue-and-yellow, Chestnut-fronted and Red-bellied Macaws, Wire-crested Thorntail, Gould’s Jewelfront, Great and Long-tailed Potoos, White-throated, Yellow-throated and Channel-billed Toucans, Many-banded and Ivory-billed Aracaris, Green-and-rufous and American Pygmy Kingfishers, Gilded and Scarlet-crowned Barbets, Coppery-chested Jacamar, Crimson-crested Woodpecker, Rusty-belted Tapaculo, Cinnamon Attila, Grey-tailed and Screaming Pihas, Golden-headed and Orange-crowned Manakins, Fiery-throated Fruiteater, Bare-necked Fruitcrow, Plum-throated and Spangled Cotingas, and an astounding diversity of antbirds, including Cocha Antshrike and Lunulated Antbird.

Top Birds

Harpy Eagle; Hoatzin; Agami & Zigzag Herons; Grey-winged Trumpeter; Sungrebe; Scarlet, Blue-and-yellow, Chestnut-fronted & Red-bellied Macaws; Wire-crested Thorntail; Gould’s Jewelfront; Great & Long-tailed Potoos; White-throated, Yellow-throated & Channel-billed Toucans; Many-banded & Ivory-billed Aracaris; Green-and-rufous & American Pygmy Kingfishers; Gilded & Scarlet-crowned Barbets; Coppery-chested Jacamar; Crimson-crested Woodpecker; Rusty-belted Tapaculo; Cinnamon Attila; Grey-tailed & Screaming Pihas; Golden-headed & Orange-crowned Manakins; Fiery-throated Fruiteater; Bare-necked Fruitcrow; Plum-throated & Spangled Cotingas; Cocha Antshrike & Lunulated Antbird.

Top Mammals

Common Woolley Monkey; Ecuadorian Squirrel Monkey; Shock-headed White-fronted Capuchin; Golden-mantled Saddleback Tamarin; Northern Pygmy Marmoset; Red-crowned Titi; Colombian Red Howler; Napo Saki; White-bellied Spider Monkey; Black Agouti.

Habitats Covered

Rio Napo river-edge forest, Rio Napo river islands, Amazon terra firme forest, Amazon varzea forest, Amazon riparian habitat and blackwater lagoons

Expected Climate

warm to hot and humid in the Amazon lowlands

Max Group Size

8 with 1 Rockjumper leader & local birding leader

Tour Pace & Walking

UNDEMANDING: This tour is ideal for birders and wildlife enthusiasts of all experience levels. It’s suitable for most mobility levels and offers a relaxed pace, ensuring an enjoyable experience for everyone.

Easy to moderate paced tour suited for those in good health with reasonable level of fitness. Not suited for anyone with mobility challenges or serious medical conditions. All walks & activities at the lodge are optional. Birding lodge surrounds, canopy tower, canopy walkway, dugout canoe trips, clay licks and forest trails that can be muddy/slippery, especially after rain.

Accommodation

Very comfortable.

Ease of Birding

Moderate, several difficult rainforest skulkers & mid-canopy flocks.

Photographic Opportunities

Worthwhile to good.

What our clients say about us

Adam Walleyn
CO, Ecuador - Northern: Eastern Andes II 2025

This is the first Rockjumper trip I have been on that required a lot of logistics, including transfers to and from hotels/lodges that were included in the cost of the trip. Awesome job! Truly appreciated. I felt safe and taken care of the entire time. Adam did a great job with our group and worked extra hard to accommodate by culinary "challenges."

Dušan Brinkhuizen
DH & JH, Ecuador

We were so fortunate to be able to experience the top notch birding skills of Dušan. He is very professional but also so personable. It is a tricky thing to manage many different personalities and keep everyone happy but Dusan made our trip so enjoyable.

Lev Frid
DK & NK, Ecuador 2021

We really enjoyed the tour. Lev did a great job. We will look forward to booking again

Dušan Brinkhuizen
DD, Ecuador 2018

[To Dušan Brinkhuizen] Truly, it was the very best birding trip I have ever been on, including several other Rockjumper trips which have all been great. As I think back on it, I can only marvel at your amazing ability to hear and identify the "chips" and "tsits" of birds calling or singing from deep in the understorey or high in the canopy of mature cloud forest while walking with a noisy group of folks or, even more unbelievable, from a moving vehicle.  And if this wasn't amazing enough, you would then expertly call the desired individual bird into view and, with incredible calm and patience, succeed in making sure that everyone of us on the tour got a crippling look (and maybe even a spectacular photo) of the target bird -- that as often as not -- was not only beautiful but also both rare and furtive.  And to further blow our minds, you often would pull out your vegetation clippers and create a setting and stage on which the bird would perform for us -- even sometimes, like some magician, telling us on which perch it would sit!!  As a measure of your expertise as a trip leader, let me tell you that on the two back-to-back trips with you I "got" 110 life birds (101 seen and 9 heard) and only missed 1 species that would have been a life bird for me (Blue-mantled Thornbill).  Never on any trip before in my life had I experienced such a high rate of success!! But above and beyond all of the uncanny skill and expertise that you exhibited, was the kindness, friendship, and humanity that you showed to each us.  For this I am so very grateful. Thank you!!!  Moreover, I'm sure everyone on the trip felt this way and I'm sure it created a safe and happy feeling among all of us that made the trip even more enjoyable.  I truly hope that I can go with you on another trip sometime. And finally thank you also for the wonderfully detailed and beautifully illustrated trip report you sent.  I remain amazed at how you could remember so clearly all the details of the trip.

Adam Walleyn
DL, Ecuador - Northern: Ultimate Amazon II 2025

I just completed the Ecuador - Northern II: Choco Cloud Forest; Eastern Andes (Paramo and Cloud Forest); and the Ultimate Amazon: Sumaco Foothills & Rio Napo for a total of 21 days. Adam Walleyn was our head guide and he did a fantasic job. He cleary knew all the birds in the region by both sight and sound and worked extremely hard to get everyone on the tours to see every bird. He was very clear in describing what the agenda was for the day, and what we we'd be doing relative to hiking, terrain, hiking difficulties, etc. He was very well organized and very friendly, a perfect guide. Adam also filled out ebird trip reports for every spot we visited over the 21 days and sent them to all tour members every night, so we could easily keep track of the species seen and immediately accept the reports into our individual ebird accounts. Not including birds only heard and not seen, I had 570 species for the trip. I'd also like to praise Rockjumper's local guide on this entire trip, Marcello. He was very friendly, energetic and man did he know the birds of Ecuador and how to find them. His hearing was absolutely acute and very tuned into the birds. Both guides carried scopes and instantly got birds into scope view for everyone. Very happy with the guides and the overall trip.

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