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Reviewed 10 September 2012 via mobile

Wow! That pretty much sums up our 4 day/3 night experience. First off, coordinating with the lodge to accommodate certain dates was a piece of cake. They provided me with all the necessary information prior to booking and were very quick to return emails. At the Quito Airport, we were met by a rep who helped us check in. At Coca, we were met by 3 other reps. So we never felt lost or out of sorts.

The lodge is absolutely beautiful. The rooms are comfortable and screened from bugs! Our guides, Andres and Elias, were so great and so informative. They really made sure we had a good time and saw a lot of wildlife. We saw over 20 species of birds, 4 species of monkeys, frogs, insects, a snake, a caiman, piranha, and a sloth. The food is really good. It really surprised me! Yummy salads and vinaigrettes! The aji sauces are also delish. And I really liked the desserts.

We had a great time!!

Date of stay: September 2012
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5  Thank blbbbyct
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Reviewed 1 September 2012

This was a great introduction to the rainforest. It is much less scarier and milder than Hollywood would let you believe. Everything was organized extremely well: we were greeted at Quito airport by a representative of Sacha Lodge, who helped with airport check-in. The flight to Coca is short (45min) but the views are beautiful: huge volcanoes followed by a descent into the green, lush and flat rainforest. At Coca, a bus awaited us which took us to a house for simple lunch and boarding of a speed canoe. Long and wet ride down Napa river was exciting; we were not sure what we are getting ourselves into. There were three of us, a single lady, and two Australian couples in the canoe. Two hours later we reached the location where we disembarked and than tracked for half an hour through the forest. That was the first encounter of the wildlife: squirrel monkeys, insects, birds... We were already with out guide Aurelio who was young and new but very enthusiastic and very respectful of our desires, our expectations, and always very eager to make us feel comfortable. This was very important for us, traveling with an 8-year-old. After the track, we traveled across a lake with a canoe to finally reach the Lodge.
Lodge has a central area for eating, all of the meals are very good, food is both local and diverse, plenty of choices for even the most picky eaters. Rooms are in separate bungalows (two per bungalow), very "green" (no air condition, but built to be breezy and airy), and quite comfortable for middle-of-rainforest location. Every 4 tourists are assigned two guides: naturalist guide (Aurelio in our case) and a native guide (local native person with living knowledge of the area). We very extremely lucky that we we paired with the single lady from canoe as our forth tourist - she was great game for all the questions our daughter had - and with our guides. Our native guide was a middle-aged man, Ernesto, for whom it is obvious that he could easily and enjoyably survive in the forest on his own: he taught us about medicinal and spiritual uses of different plants, customs, spotted wild life that we would never be able to see without him, and he befriended our daughter and carved a gift from local wood for her!
Every day we had at least two or three activities. Our favorites were parrot lick, night walk (think: tarantulas and scorpion spiders!), kapok tree climb, and piranha fishing. My wife did NOT enjoy the canopy walk at all, and there is a question: why the walk when the kapok tree provides exactly the same experience without the scare?
Overall, it was a great experience, I am very happy we did it. We spent 3 nights/4 days there, and really loved it. We saw so much wild life, such a diversity and it was perfectly safe. We did not take any medication, no vaccination. We felt perfectly comfortable at all times. Our Australian friends were going crazy with their bird-loving naturalist guide (who was also ALWAYS at their side, including all meals), but our guides gave us space and respected our "down time". Souvenirs at the gift shop are well priced and we did not see such crafts anywhere else (Quito, Otavalo, etc) so go ahead, make a purchase.
Definitely, we would recommend this to families!

Date of stay: June 2012
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7  Thank JaWestPalmBeach
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Reviewed 26 August 2012

My husband , my two teenaged girls and I had the most wonderful stay at the Sacha Lodge. It was so perfectly organised!!!!They think of everything! The rooms are very comfortable and even have a safe and a dry box!!! The food was great and our excursions breathtaking!! We learned alot about the rainforest and had great fun and spectacular views on the canopy bird walk ( one of the only self-standing suspension canopy walkways in the world!). The girls really enjoyed fishing for piranhas and loved the great BBQ! We could have sat in the canoes all day just enjoying!! We will miss 'Hairy' - the tarantula, who liked to visit our balcony. The girls (originally afraid of spiders) just loved him - or was it a her? A dip in the beautiful lake is heaven after the jungle hikes!!!All in all a fabulous trip!!!!!

Date of stay: August 2012
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1  Thank ricapepa
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Reviewed 10 August 2012

Just returned from an extremely special spot in Ecuador. Sacha Lodge is perhaps one of the most magical places I have ever seen. I think my experience there might be my favorite journey ever. Sacha Lodge is very remote, difficult to get to and totally worth the extensive travel involved. Staff at Sacha are extremely professional and incredibly detail oriented. They do not miss a thing. What I enjoyed most was simply being away from everything and learning so much. Five days of exquisite beauty that are filled to the brim with physical challenges and educational insights. This is an excellent destination for children too. I actually met my 24 year old son there and he suddenly turned 9 years old again full of wonder and delight surrounding the profound beauty and awe of nature. Every day brought new sensory experiences. Begin the day with a perfect breakfast at 6 and in your wooden canoe by 7. Paddle out through the mist over the serene lake and begin your Amazon experience. Enjoy exotic birds, caimans, monkeys, butterflies, flowers and trees from your dreams. Hike and enjoy learning about plants in the jungle and their medicinal purposes. Return to the lodge and swim in the cool, clear lake and a have a communal lunch. After resting for 2 hours, begin your next adventure which might involve a hike, a climb, a visit to an exquisite tree house high in the sky or pretend you are a bird on the canopy walk. I am not a huge fan of heights but none of these sky hikes bothered me at all. Everything is safe and extremely well-maintained. Come back to the lodge tired, enjoy a hot shower and an amazing dinner with new friends. Perhaps you have a night hike or a night canoe ride with additional discoveries beyond your wildest dreams. Fall into bed exhausted and enjoy the sounds of the night symphony of Sacha with tree frogs and lightning bugs and other assorted sounds. This is a top notch eco-lodge that is highly organized. We had two fantastic guides; Gus and Pancho who deepened our experience well beyond our expectations. Keep in mind, this is not the Four Seasons. You will get dirty, messy, hot and tired. You will be covered in bug spray and sunscreen and you will be so happy about it. In our group of 3, none of us had any insect bites or any real problems. One night, I had some stomach trouble and the chef prepared some special tea of oregano and onion and I was magically better in the morning. I cannot say one negative thing about Sacha Lodge except how very sad I was to leave.

Room tip: Rooms 9 and 10 are remote and lovely. You can see monkeys from the rear deck.
Date of stay: August 2012
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9  Thank Artsandlife
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Reviewed 2 August 2012

We had a wonderful 6 days stopping at sacha lodge . Arriving at the Quito airport we were meet with a questionnaire [which we thought a bit of a bind] however by the time we touched down at coca A guide had been assigned to us for stay who organised everything for night walks into the amazon rainforest to seeing parrots at the clay lick. Food was excellent

Room tip: rooms at the back of lodge have adjoining sitting room
Date of stay: February 2012
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2  Thank rhonan
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