Travel diaries: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil.
I’m back from a 3 weeks tour of the ecuadorian amazon region during which I visited 5 different community-based tourism projects: discovery of kichwa culture and the tropical flora and fauna was a great part of the program. Thanks to the project I had the chance to live by the sides of local people and …
Day 350 : Community-Based Tourism in Ecuadorian Amazon Read More »
[Ecuador] Before to become a lodge, Yachana (which means in kichwa language « a place where to learn ») was above all a solid educational project (high school) developed for the youth of this isolated community in the Ecuadorian amazon. In 1995, Douglas was looking for a more sustainable model, and started the tourism project with the …
Yachana Lodge, education and opportunities for all Read More »
[Ecuador] After Shayari and Limoncocha, I’m welcomed in a 3rd kichwa community of the ecuadorian amazon, this time on the Napo river and at the nord-west entrance of the famous and vast Yasuni National Park. It’s a very improvised last-minute visit. I met, during a Rainforest Alliance meeting and training at Limoncocha, Otorino who offered me to come and stay …
Rio Indillama, Kichwa community in the Yasuni National Park Read More »
[Ecuador] After my visit at the Shayari community, I continued with a second community-based tourism center, the one of Limoncocha. This small village is located within an amazonian bioreserve and right next to the famous Napo River. Its lagoon is the ideal spot to observe caimans, frogs, birds… and some people say that there would …
[Ecuador] I started my tour of ecuadorian Amazonia with a beautiful experience within the kichwa community of Shayari (14 families, 97 people). I was welcomed during 3 days in the family of Fauster and Guillermo. They prepared me such a program of activities, very complete, delicious mix of tropical nature, kichwa culture and local gastronomy. …
Shayari, Kichwa community and rehabilitation of wild animals Read More »
[Ecuador] I ended my long stay in the capital with a short excursion of two days in the cloudforest of Mindo, the famous birdwatching spot of Ecuador. I made there a few videos, of which one to explain how to make your own mosquitoes repellent! Molly is from the USA, and Efrain, native of the …
The keyword to qualify my arrival in Quito is “synchronization”! The Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC) takes place each year in a different country, and this was by chance this year in Ecuador, and exactly at the dates to which I was entering the country. It’s, then, the opportunity to come together again with …
Quito, Volunteering at an International Ecotourism Conference Read More »
I had the chance to make an interview with the Minister of Tourism of Ecuador, Sandra Naranjo, along D’Arcy Dornan sides, Brazil Country Representative for GSTC, during the international ESTC15 conference in Quito (Ecuador) in April 2015. Watch the videos that I made during the conference asking many attendees the two same questions: “What is your contribution to sustainable tourism? Why …
Meet Sandra Naranjo, Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador Read More »
It has been 300 days travelling from Mexico to Ecuador, having visited around 40 hotels… How many days must there be left until Argentina? That is the question! I ended this week with Colombia tugging at my heart strings; I spent almost four months there sprinkled with wonderful encounters. Week by week, my itinerary was …
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