Amacayacu Vacations in the Amazon rainforest

amacayacu natural park To live some days in the Amazon rainforest is no longer synonymous of vigil, insecurity and risk. A natural reservation in Colombia, Amacayacu has from some years ago, a tourist complex willing to offer some stupendous vacations.

The Amacayacu Natural Park located in the province of Amazon in Colombia, is located to one hour and 45 minutes in boat from Leticia's amazon city.

Their extension is organized in such a way that the traveler knows the biodiversity, the culture of about 14 indigenous tribes and his Cosmo vision, and he will be able to practice adventure sports.

To be guided by a native through paths, to sleep in maloca, to sight the forest from a 300 year-old tree, to travel through the Amazon river and to consume typical plates of the place, it is only a part of the adventure.

This area that until some years ago it was a territory of indigenous exploitation, today it is protected by the environmental authorities and a reality of sustainable tourism that it protects and want the development of the native ones.

Who have visited it, they remember the incomparable flavor of the fish, the fariña and the pepper cooked by the natives, the exuberance of the landscape and the fauna, the rainforest canopy of the grandiose from the trees to 30 and 40 meters high.

Voyage for the river

amacayacu natural park amazon river To the Amacayacu Natural Park you''ll to arrive in boat. From any place of Colombia you’ll to take a flight toward Leticia to embark upon the sailing for the flow of the Amazon river.

According to what people that have carried out this trip, they narrate since you arrive to Leticia one has the sensation of entering to a remote world and totally different to the accustomed one. This city is small, but it has enough infrastructure to assist the tourists, the taxi drivers are kind and its service is economic.

There a safe boat is boarded to arrive at the natural park. After traveling 60 kilometers for the immensity of the Amazon that step by step goes discovering their leafy vegetation and their giant trees, while it mixes the colors of the sky and of the forest, is the first limit of the reservation, the stream Matamatá.

Others of their limits are the Cotuhé river, the streams Cabinas, Pamaté, Lorena and the Amacayacu river, of where comes the name natural park that means “river of the hammocks” in Quechua language.

"Personally I felt pleasurably shivered with the beauty of the landscapes that you observed in the river’s surroundings, alone you see side nature and side, as a tribute to the creative perfection of god", said John Mican, one of the travelers.

Amacayacu Natural Park

Travel to the interior of the sanctuary.

The reception takes place in Yewae, the center of visitors managed in concession by Hotels Decameron and Aviatur where are the accommodation housings and the restaurant.

It is necessary to stand out that Yewae is a word of the language Ticuna that means “Mother of the waters".

The place has two accommodation types in malocas or cabins of native architecture. One with private bathroom and with capacity for maximum five people, and another in big living rooms where there are between 15 and 20 bunks or wooden beds with toldillo (a cover protector).

From there the daily activities are undertaken toward the gulches, the rainforest canopy and the indigenous tribes.

The climate is on the average of 27 centigrade degrees and in the nights it is not cold. The travelers to say that the atmosphere is quite pleasant, but is fundamental to apply repellent in the skin to avoid the night mosquitoes.

Surrounded completely by forest

"The landscapes of the park are impressive, one feels too small among so much nature", Carlos Mountain Eduardo said, after feeling the majestic of the forest with their flora and his fauna.

In this amazon corner have over 500 species of birds, 11 species of garzas, four crocodile species, 150 of aquatic mammals as the manatí of the amazons, the "bufeo" and the river dolphin; and fishes that are the base of the feeding of the natives.

The 293 thousand 500 hectares of the park are composed by tropical humid forest, forests flooded, mainland forests, swamps, marshes, madre vieja (translated: old mother) and fluvial systems.

In each one them the vegetation is different, for example, in the humid lands capirón trees grow and it decreased, while in mainland there are red, white and mahogany cedar, ceiba and uvo, to conform the rainforest canopy of 30 and 40 meters high.

Among the recognized animals in the area it is necessary to mention the tití leoncito (smaller primate of the world), the guacamaya, the morrocoy jabuti, the turtle of sweet water, the jaguar, the rosy dolphin, the danta, the otter, the black cayman, boas, anacondas, corals and fish like the pirarucú and the pirañas.

What to take in the suitcase

* Long pants and shirts long sleeve, enough to be changed the times that it is necessary.

* Marshy boots, raincoat and lantern.

* Hat or cap.

* Vaccination certificate against the yellow fever and tetanus.

* Bathroom dress and sandals.

* First-aid kit: repellent, solar protector and medications for headache, allergies, wounded and digestive illnesses.

Facts of interest

The plans of Amacayacu travel to the Natural Park are from 2 to 7 days, with costs between 300 and 800 dollars ($600 thousand and $1 million 500 thousand Colombian pesos) for person that vary according to the season. These values include air tickets air going and return, fluvial transfer, adventure activities, lodging and feeding, from the interior of Colombia.

Activities to do

amacayacu natural park fauna * Walks: by the wild paths with an indigenous guide.

* To visit the indigenous communities: to share with them, to admire their crafts and to prove their gastronomy. 10 percent of the territory of the park is covered for indigenous receipts of the ethnoses Ticuna, Yaguas and Cocamas.

* Panoramic vista: First from a ceiba, native tree is climbed with more than 300 years, from here to observe the forest in different angles.

* Rappel: It is made from the height of the ceiba and the fall can be until of 40 meters.

* Traveled by the hanging bridge: This begins from the canopy of the forest and it moves toward the sides while one walks for it.

* Canoe ting nocturne: In the river amazons or gulches of the area.

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