Tour Ticuna
4 Nights - 5 Days
Tour in brief:
You’ll get to know the native culture of the Ticuna spending a day and a night in a native community and you’ll enjoy the nature of the Reserva Natural Tucuchira – Accommodation in bed with mosquito net
Day 1 – Arrival and entrance in the Reserva Natural Tucuchira
- Reception at the airport or the place of arrival
- Transfer fluvial in public boat to the Reserva Natural Tucuchira
- Arrival and installation at the Reserva Natural Tucuchira
- Information about the plan
- Lunch at Tucuchira or in Leticia (depending on the time of arrival)
- Rest in hammock or relaxing net
- Dinner
- Nocturnal walking tour or optional nocturnal canoe tour (only in rain season from December/January to May)
Day 2 – Living one day in a native family
- 08:00 a.m. Breakfast
- 10:00 a.m. Visiting a native community to spend the day and night there
- You’ll live the day with a native family
- Cultural exchange
- You’ll get to know the daily live of a native family
- Lunch preparation
- 01:00 p.m. Lunch with the native family
- Handcraft and painting workshop
- Natural temporal tattoos
- 06:00 p.m. Dinner in the native community
- You spend the night in the selected accommodation in the community
- Talk with an indigenous leader of the community in the maloca
Day 3 – Amazonian Nature
- 08:00 a.m. Breakfast in the native community
- 09:00 a.m. Return to the Reserva Natural Tucuchira in typical canoe through floodable rainforest with possibilities to see sloths in their natural habitat (only in rain season) or return by foot in dry season
- Rest in hammock or relaxing net
- Visiting a native agriculture of the Ticuna to get to know the regional fruits (only in dry season)
- Lunch at the Reserva Natural Tucuchira
- Traditional fishing
- Dinner
- Watching the stars from a relaxing net
Day 4 – Watching river dolphins
- 08:00 a.m. Breakfast in Tucuchira
- Feeding a species of monkeys coming to the Reserva
- Walking tour in primary jungle, aprox. 3 hours
- Lunch at Tucuchira
- 02:30 p.m. Departure to the Amazon river
- Watching the river dolphins
- Sunset at the Amazon river (depending on weather)
- Dinner
- Story night of the native guides
Day 5 – Departure from the Reserva Natural Tucuchira
- 06:00 a.m. Breakfast
- 06:30 a.m. Departure from the Reserva Natural Tucuchira
- 08:00 a.m. Transfer fluvial in public boat to Leticia
END OF THE TOUR
The tour includes:
- Accommodation in bed with mosquito net in Tucuchira (3 nights) and accommodation in a native community (1 night) with breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Activities described in the tour
- Drinking water
- Personal guide (speaks Spanish)
- Loan of rubber boots (let us know your size)
- Loan of rain capes
- Pick up at the airport or hotel
- All fluvial transports in public boat (from and to Leticia, last boat leaves at 1:30 p.m., until 3:00 p.m. transport in private boat possible with different cost)
- Medical assistance insurance
The tour does NOT include:
- Translator (it’s possible to organise tours with translator in English)
- Tourism tax ($ 35.000 COP at the airport of Leticia)
- Personal shopping
- Airline tickets
- Activities and nutrition not described in the plan
Notes:
- This plan is subject to changes without prior notice during its execution due to weather factors.
- This plan is flexible and changes can be made in agreement between visitors and guides.
- All activities are voluntary and done at your own risk.
- To carry out the activities, the physiology of the visitor’s effort will be taken into account.
Price per person (COP):
|
Groups of |
1 person |
2 persons |
3 – 4 persons |
5 – 6 persons |
7 persons |
8 persons or more |
|
Price per person [COP] |
2.420.000 |
1.870.000 |
1.540.000 |
1.320.000 |
1.210.000 |
1.155.000 |
Payment:
50% payment beforehand to confirm the tour on a bank account or via PayPal
50 % payment in cash arriving at the Reserva Natural Tucuchira (we can only receive cash payments at the Reserva Natural Tucuchira)
