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Just look at the greatness of the rivers and the lush foliage of the trees to begin to feel the seductive magic of the Orient, then, are born like laughing or rub their eyes with the intention to check if everything is true: the orange clouds by the glare of the sun dying, fragile canoes to fight the currents, the maddening cry of the anonymous “hosts” of the forest.
Men who keep the secrets discovered by their ancient ancestors. Wild and unruly river trails. Heat and rain. Snakes, snakes, piranhas, mosquitoes incisors in eastern Ecuador, a place where Mother Nature has dressed in green to support life in its various forms.
The land of infinite greenery rises in the foothills of the eastern slope of the Ecuadorian Andes. Its climate is characterized by the unbearable heat and the persistent rain, with lightning and thunder that “fat” the channels of the tributaries of the legendary Amazon River.
Anthropological and historical studies conclude that the Amazon was inhabited by humans in 10,000 BC Now, in the Oriente of Ecuador, remaining six ethnic groups: the Quechua (the most numerous and directly linked to the inhabitants of the Andes), the Shuar, Achuar, Huaorani (nomads unrepentant), Siona, Cofan redwood.
Walks under the shade of gigantic trees, fantastic journeys through rivers, including the Napo, the longest in the region with 855 miles, are part of the great adventure that allows intimacy with nature and learn from the ancestral wisdom of Native Americans. The children of the land of endless green.

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