Napo Wildlife Center  Member Rating 5 out of 5 by diverk on
March 21, 2005  The Napo Wildlife Center is a high-end jungle
lodge (high-end means less mosquitoes and clean sheets) found in
the Napo River Valley. In order to get there, you need to fly to
Coca City, take a motorized canoe for several hours down the
Napo River, transfer to a dugout canoe (when the tribe sees an
appropriate tree, a group of families cut down the tree together
and build several canoes at one time directly in the jungle),
and paddle for several hours down another side river.  Our lodge
is on the Anagucocha Lake, which is a large lake filled with
caimans (we went on a nighttime caiman watch one night) and a
family of giant 8-foot otters. In order to get to any of the
trails, we had to take the dugout canoe.  One day we visited the
Quichua community of Anangu, where I was the fortunate person to
receive a cleansing done by the local shaman (this fully
energized me, but the shaman hit me for a while with some leaves
and then blew into m