The lodge offers a multitude of activities, so that with your guides and your group you can design a flexible program to suit your interests and activity level. Most itineraries include a visit to an Achuar community, where you will be invited into a home to experience Achuar hospitality and taste the famous manioc beer. Depending on your fitness levels there are a variety of hikes in the rainforest to learn about the flora, fauna and Achuar cosmology and culture. Your Achuar guide will delight and amaze you with all the different uses of the plants, from food to medicine, to building materials. If you are lucky enough to come across traditional Achuar foods you will have the opportunity to taste lemon ants or palm larvae, not for the faint hearted!
Kapawi lodge is a paradise for bird watchers and amateurs alike, more species of bird are found in the Kapawi area alone than in all of North America. Kapawi is on the banks of the Capahuari river, so you can fish for pirana, or take a traditional Achuar canoe or kayak to explore sleepy streams, thick with jungle foliage, you will feel a million miles from western civilization. For those of you who prefer less effort, slip into a rubber ring or swim and let the current carry you down stream, and there is no need to worry, the only wild life you are likely to encounter while in the river are the magical pink dolphins. Something not to be missed is the alfresco dinning experience in the forest, after a beautiful walk your guides will set up a delicious hot lunch for you in the forest beneath the jungle canopy.
Your day in Kapawi can start as early as 6:00am if you are keen to catch the animals and birds at their most active. If requested your Achuar guide will wake you with a knock on your cabin door. Hot drinks and light snacks are available before heading off for your early morning activities, but don’t worry, nothing too strenuous for first thing in the morning, just relax in the canoe as you are taken upstream bird watching or downstream to the clay lick where the parrots and macaws gather most mornings. The dawn light and the symphony of insect, bird and animal calls at this time of the morning will be etched into your memory forever.
The canoes will return you to the lodge in time for a big breakfast at 8:00am.
The morning activities depart at 9:30am. Depending on what you have arranged with your guides you will either return to the lodge at one for another delectable dinning experience or you may stay in the forest and lunch beneath the trees. Afternoon activities start at 3:00pm and you will return to the lodge by 5:00pm where you may choose to rest in your hammock with a glass of something delicious.
Each evening at 7:00 your guides will give a briefing in the bar detailing the activities for the next day.
A delicious dinner will be served in the dinning room at 7:30pm where you will be once more serenaded by the sounds of the forest and frogs in the lagoon as you dine.
For those who chose to there are additional night activities which start at 8:30. Either a gentle night hike along the self guided trail, spotting unbelievably stunning insects, frog, reptiles and with luck nocturnal monkey; night Caiman watching by canoe is defiantly a highlight, keep your eyes peeled for their orange eyes just above the surface of the water; Alternatively you can sit or by the fire in the hammock hut and hear talks on the rainforest and Achaur life.
