We will like to inform you some important news about the transportation to Kapawi, below please find the details of our new procedures:

Air transportation Kapawi

According to the terms & conditions of the Aeromaster Airways agreement for the Kapawi transportation, based on the weight restrictions of their operations, the weight limit per passenger for the checking and hand luggage is 25 pounds.
The overweight charge per passenger is $1.40 per extra pound for the roundtrip to Kapawi. This charge will have to be pay in cash to the Aeromaster Representative at the Aeromaster Counter in the Quito Airport, the day of the passenger's departure to Kapawi.

NOTES:
1. There is no place to store luggage at the Quito airport, so the passengers will have to carry with all their bags up to Kapawi.
2. It is very important to mention that Kapawi transportation is a private operation, the aircrafts have a medium size so we have to handle an strictly weight capability.
3. The overweight rate is effective starting November 15th, 2005.

Special Kapawi flights routes
For those individual passengers or groups that request different routes to get in or out from Kapawi on regular operational dates (Monday and Friday), we can offer the following alternatives:
* Shell to Kapawi or Kapawi to Shell: this option applies for passengers that request to arrive or depart from Shell instead of Quito. In this case we will apply a net rate of $160.00 per passenger for a one-way flight plus the $100 of the cost of the regular portion, rate do not includes 12% IVA.
* Quito to Kapawi or Kapawi to Quito: this option apply for passengers that request to enter or to leave from the lodge on a non-operational day and combine it with a regular transportation on Monday or Friday. In this case we will apply a net rate of $170.00 plus the additional expense for the special arrangements per passenger to cover the transportation of one-way flight during the regular departure. The cost of the arrangements of the non operational day will be inform at the time of the booking, rate do not includes 12% IVA.


Maintenance Plan 2005-06
Kapawi Ecolodge & Reserve will be transferred to the Achuar people guaranteeing that the present infrastructure can be utilized in an immediate way after the transference process, to achieve this objective we have initiated a process of maintenance of the lodge that understands the reinforcement of structures, change of ceilings and preventive maintenance against humidity to all the wood. All this process will be developed between the 2005 and 2006. The only way to access to Kapawi is through airplanes and light aircraft that land in local trails, to assure a secure landing we have given manual maintenance periodically. For better results, since September 2005 Kapawi counts with a vibratory roller that improves the conditions of the present landing strip, the acquisition of this equipment is part of the maintenance plan of 05-06

Awards received by Kapawi:
1998 - Tourism for tomorrow, British Airways
2000 - Ecotourism Excellence Award, Conservation International
2002 - Ecotourism Award, Skal International
2004 - Conservation Category of the 2004 Sustainable Tourism Award for Conservation (STAC).


Transference plan
Kapawi Ecolodge & Reserve is an pioneering eco-tourist project with active common participation, with this particularity the transference process to the Achuar people has taken periods of learning and development of abilities to take both parts to a successful transference process.
In recent years the Achuar Confederacy -NAE has invested great part of their time in its consolidation and strengthening, steps that are necessary to receive the responsibility of the management and ownership of Kapawi. Today and after carried out several workshops, we have developed a transference plan by consensus between Canodros and NAE.

Planning of the Transference Plan, to be executed in April 2011