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Ecuador - Kapawi Amazon Extension

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Ecuador - Kapawi Amazon Extension 2026

26 Jan 2026 - 31 Jan 2026 (6 days)

USD3,395 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Lev Frid

Tour price (Per person): USD3,395 * GBP2,749 * EUR3,260 * AUD5,404

Single Supplement: USD800 * GBP648 * EUR768 * AUD1,273

Flight costs: USD320 * GBP259 * EUR307 * AUD509

Can be linked with: Ecuador - Southern Endemics 2026

Flight costs (Linked Tour): USD110 * GBP89 * EUR106 * AUD175

This extension takes us to a very remote Ecuadorian location - the little-visited Kapawi Ecolodge situated on the remote Rio Kapahuari. Boasting a bird list of over 450 species within walking distance of the lodge itself, it’s no wonder that this humble Achuar indigenous community project has caught our attention. This tour offers prime Amazon birding with targets including Horned Screamer, Orinoco Goose, Red-fan Parrot, Rufous and Long-tailed Potoo, Rufous-headed Woodpecker, Cinnamon Neopipo, Black-necked Red Cotinga, Black Bushbird, Black-throated, Lunulated, Hairy-crested and White-plumed Antbird, Ochre-striped Antpitta, and Rio Suno and Ancient Antwrens.

By the end of our stay, we will all know much more about the rainforest and the fabulous Achuar people. The warm hospitality, good food and unique location supply an amazing experience to share with our loved ones upon our return. Join us for this one-of-a-kind tour into the true wilds of the Ecuadorian Amazon!

 

Top Birds

Salvin’s Curassow; Spix’s Guan; Blue-throated Piping Guan; Ochre-striped Antpitta; Red-and-green, Scarlet & Blue-and-yellow Macaws; Black-bellied Cuckoo; Red-necked, Chestnut & Cream-colored Woodpeckers; Pavonine Quetzal; White-eared, Yellow-billed & Great Jacamars; Collared, Spotted & White-chested Puffbirds; Brown Nunlet; Citron-bellied Attila; Orange-fronted Plushcrown; Chestnut-winged Hookbill; Duida & Elegant Woodcreepers; White-eyed, Zimmer’s & Johannes's Tody-Tyrants; Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant; Short-billed Leaftosser; Cinereous Mourner; Plum-throated & Purple-throated Cotingas; Rusty-belted Tapaculo; Fulvous & Pearly Antshrikes; Black Bushbird; Yellow-browed, White-plumed, Lunulated & Banded Antbirds; Reddish-winged Bare-eye; Ancient, Dugand’s & Chestnut-shouldered Antwrens; Orinoco Goose; Black-striped Sparrow; Horned Screamer; Harpy & Crested Eagles (rare); Grey-winged Trumpeter (rare); Nocturnal Curassow (rare); Ocellated Poorwill; Great, Long-tailed, & Rufous Potoos; Crested, Spectacled & Black-banded Owls; Tawny-bellied Screech Owl.

Top Mammals

Colombian Red Howler; Spix’s Night Monkey; Red-bellied Titi Monkey; Equatorial Saki; White-fronted Capuchin; Common Squirrel Monkey; Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth

Habitats Covered

Amazon terrafirme forest, Amazon varzea forest, Amazon riparian habitat

Expected Climate

Hot & humid

Max Group Size

8 with 1 Rockjumper leader

Tour Pace & Walking

MODERATE TO CHALLENGING: This tour requires a good level of fitness, stamina, and overall health. It’s best suited for experienced birders who are comfortable with a more active itinerary. Please note that it may not be ideal for avid photographers, new birders, or those with mobility or health concerns.

Moderate to brisk paced tour suited for those in good health with reasonable level of fitness. Not suited for anyone with mobility challenges or serious medical conditions.

Accommodation

Comfortable

Ease of Birding

Moderate, several difficult forest skulkers.

Photographic Opportunities

Worthwhile to good. Typical rain forest conditions

What our clients say about us

Dušan Brinkhuizen
SW, Ecuador 2022

Our tour of the Choco cloud forest and the Eastern Andes paramo and cloud forest was superb. Our guide Dušan Brinkhuizen was amazing in his ability to find birds; he clearly has supernatural hearing and eyesight! He also was superb at making sure that everyone saw the birds. He truly worried about his clients and listened to their requests as to birds, landscapes and need for sleep. We saw spectacular landscapes far off the beaten path and got very good looks at birds in all habitats. An additional plus was our driver Dario who kept us safe on marginal roads. We look forward to our next Rockjumper trip.

Dušan Brinkhuizen
JR, Ecuador

Dušan is an excellent field ornithologist with an encyclopaedic knowledge of bird song, taxonomy, and field identification marks. Ornithology is Dušan’s passion. He is also excellent with the clients – friendly, courteous, patient, and anxious that everyone sees all the birds and enjoys the tour. It was a great tour!

Dušan Brinkhuizen
DD, Ecuador 2018

[To Dušan Brinkhuizen] Truly, it was the very best birding trip I have ever been on, including several other Rockjumper trips which have all been great. As I think back on it, I can only marvel at your amazing ability to hear and identify the "chips" and "tsits" of birds calling or singing from deep in the understorey or high in the canopy of mature cloud forest while walking with a noisy group of folks or, even more unbelievable, from a moving vehicle.  And if this wasn't amazing enough, you would then expertly call the desired individual bird into view and, with incredible calm and patience, succeed in making sure that everyone of us on the tour got a crippling look (and maybe even a spectacular photo) of the target bird -- that as often as not -- was not only beautiful but also both rare and furtive.  And to further blow our minds, you often would pull out your vegetation clippers and create a setting and stage on which the bird would perform for us -- even sometimes, like some magician, telling us on which perch it would sit!!  As a measure of your expertise as a trip leader, let me tell you that on the two back-to-back trips with you I "got" 110 life birds (101 seen and 9 heard) and only missed 1 species that would have been a life bird for me (Blue-mantled Thornbill).  Never on any trip before in my life had I experienced such a high rate of success!! But above and beyond all of the uncanny skill and expertise that you exhibited, was the kindness, friendship, and humanity that you showed to each us.  For this I am so very grateful. Thank you!!!  Moreover, I'm sure everyone on the trip felt this way and I'm sure it created a safe and happy feeling among all of us that made the trip even more enjoyable.  I truly hope that I can go with you on another trip sometime. And finally thank you also for the wonderfully detailed and beautifully illustrated trip report you sent.  I remain amazed at how you could remember so clearly all the details of the trip.

Dušan Brinkhuizen
CR - Ecuador 2019

I have just finished a very successful snipe day with Dusan. I got all three species I was after, which was a result of some excellent guiding by Dušan Brinkhuizen. I cannot commend him highly enough. He can fill you in on the detail but looking for an Andean Snipe in the rain and cold wind at 4300m takes some effort!  I will certainly need my rest day tomorrow.

Dušan Brinkhuizen
AG, Ecuador 2022

All the participants were nice and helpful in pointing out birds to others. Dusan was great and worked hard to get everyone on a bird. His expertise makes you realize how much you miss! But it also helps know what to try to find.

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