• Lago Agrio / Cuyabeno
• Coca
• Tena / Misahualli
• Kapawi
  

• Misicocha hike (a hike through primary & secondary forest to witness numerous birds, insects & plants)
• Balsa Raft (an adventure downstream)
• Amazoonico (a non-profit animal rescue station.
• Quichua village (watch blowpipe demonstrations and the preparation of "chicha" the local equivalent to moonshine.
• Motorized canoe trip (to soak in the diversity of the rainforest)

• 20 double rooms with private bathroom
• Restaurant and bar
• Jacuzzi with sun terrace
• River beach
• Pool-billiards
• Satellite TV in the hall
• Chapel
• Laundry Service
• Private parking place
• Electricity 110V/60 Hz
• Doctor and Drugstore in 2 km
• Jungle tours in canoe and by  foot

• AmaZOOnico - Visit of the rescue center for animals which is situated at 30 minute walk from Liana Lodge. (it's possible to go by canoe as well). The team of volunteers will show you the selva's animals : monkeys, parrots, ocelots... Most of the animals live free, however, some of them are kept in cages for their own security. After the tour, you will have the opportunity to go to the bar and the small shop which presents the kichwa's artisanal work.
• Mirador - You will discover the jungle in walking to the Mirador, where you have a wonderfull view over the Island Anaconda and the village of Ahuano.
• Rio Rodriguez - Discovering the protected area of Selva Viva, you arrive at the Rio Rodriguez where you can relax by enjoying your meal served in leaves of platanillos and taking a bath. All over the day, the kichwa guide shares his knowledge about the flora and fauna with you. He explains to you which plants are used by the kichwas for medicine and which one for roof construction, blowguns and so on. Concerning the fauna, you will have the opportunity to observe an interesting variety of insects (butterfly, ants, termite) and maybe amphibias. However, the chances that you see bigger mamals are small because usually they are night-active or very discreet.
• Balsa Raft - By canoe, you go up the Rio Arajuno until the Rio Cosano.
  On a small beach, you build a kichwa traditional raft on which you can float down the Rio to Liana Lodge. It is as well possible to swim beside the raft.
• Ceibo Trees - the guide shows you the astonishing insectes and the flora of the Selva. On the way you will meet the Ceibo, one of the biggest tree in Amazonia, with its impressive buttress roots.
• Gold panning - By canoe, you will reach a beach of black sand. Over there, the guide will show you how they pan for gold ... and you will have the opportunity to try for yourself. With a bit a luck, you will find gold!

Updating 2010 rates

The lodge is set in 64 hectares on the bank of the Napo River, uo to the border of the Valle Hermoso and Ponceloma's Communities, and the Biosphere Reserve of "Galers/Sumaco".

We bought this little piece of Amazonian Forest to protect and respect it. We love it even more because of its imperfections, stigmata of a past exploitation... a gold rush took its toll on some small areas, leaving deep scars on the ground. We knowingly chose to build the lodge on this very same place, somehow to embellish this invisible wound and help it heal.

This forest is a living organism that requires attention, so we help it, selecting the tree species that will help building a stronger and more stable ecosystem.

Take up a challenge is worth something only if its consequences are positives; this is what we are trying to do, helping the forest to grow healthier and embellish, our small brick to the gigantic wall that is the protection of the Amazon Forest.

Not only we protect our forest, but we also do everything not to harm the rest of the jungle around. Hence the necessity for us to use rainwater for the needs of the Lodge and cleaning it afterwards, avoiding the use of the water from rivers or worse, underground water. Used waters from the kitchen and showers are filtered before reaching the soils; moreover, we are using biodegradable amenities products ensuring a lesser pollution. As for the toilets' used waters, they are going through a sceptic bio-tank system, as well as depolluting plants, using a natural process to progressively reduce the levels of pollution. This way we can avoid harmful pollutions to the rivers and underground waters. Even our swimming pool functions on a chlorine-free treatment, using Ozone to treat the water against germs and algae’s.

Finally, all this is only a narrow vision of what really is the protection of the environement, making us an Eco-Lodge. In fact, an ecosystem, is not only the habitat, but also everything that inhabits it; including Human communities as they harmoniously live within the forest. These communities not only rationally exploit the products of the forest as Cocoa, fruits, the plants that they use for construction, or craft, they especially use a large range of plants for a rich pharmacopoeia.

This pharmacopoeia is a key element in these populations' cultural life, allowing them to heal bodies' as well as spiritual wounds. Therefore it exists an indefectible bound between humans and there environment, obviously at a basic survival level, but also through their cultural and spiritual life. It is this bound that should be protected and sometimes revitalized so it does not suffer from the damages done to the forest and acculturation processes. It is also obvious that this very bound is the key to protect the Amazonian ecosystem; therefore, the philosophy we wish to develop has to be Eco as much as Ethno-Friendly oriented, both being inextricably connected, in order to act towards a real protection of the environment.

It is from humans' activities that comes the threats to the environment, and the solution could only be found amongst people whose lives reflect a deep respect of the Nature that surrounds them.

From this philosophy, we were able to define a set of architectural and decoration concepts. For the buildings, we wanted an harmonious ensemble, well integrated in its environment without having to copy the traditional styles. Those are constructions purely elaborated around a family core, according to a specific environment, all of which is hardly suitable for a touristic use. The Toquilla (Cardulovica palmata) roofs for instance require a regular use of powerful pesticides mixed with diesel to ensure the durability of the roof. In the communities, those pesticides are useless because families make fire under the roof on a daily basis, the smoke being an efficient agent to protect the leaves.

Therefore, we went for a new kind of design for the region, preferring the vision of French architects (Olivier Donnet and Caroline Tresse). We chose pure and simple lines, contrasting with the exuberant Nature around. Space being integrated in luxuriance, an opening under the canopea, lines amongst a chaos of curves. This choice of space is going towards an integration of light in the buildings, allowing to regulate atmospheric humidity through a natural aeration.

As for water and electricity, nothing was done that could damage the site, we have everything buried, avoiding cutting trees.

Through the decoration, our Ethno-friendly philosophy prevails again in every corner of the Lodge and the Bungalows, allowing an harmonious alliance between modern and traditional. Each Bungalow is a tribute to the Nature as well as to some of the ethnic groups cultural aesthetism and symbolism. The colours we chose for the bungalows are directly inspired by the Amazonian Environment : the red soil, the wings of a common butterfly, tree leaves, a wild flower. Each ceiling displays the main animal and vegetal symbols from four important ethnic groups : Quichua, Shuar, Huoarani, and Cofane. Theses symbols and representations give to each bungalow a proper identity with an ethnic and even mystic dimension.

PRICES 2010 FOR THE HAMADRYADE LODGE ; prices are per person, in US Dollars: