Amazon Flights & Airfare Overview
From Quito, the Amazon can be reached by a fairly painless bus ride. However, if time is of the essence and flying is your preferred mode of travel, both the Quito Airport and the Guayaquil Airport have regular flights to the Amazon.
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Amazon Description
Ecuador's share of the Amazon (known to locals as the Oriente) provides easy-access opportunities for experiencing the magic of the rainforest.
Not only does it have one of the world's best developed infrastructures for rainforest tourism, but most destinations are accessible within a day's journey from Quito, including the Cuyabeno Reserve, the Upper Napo region around the jungle towns of Tena and Misahualli, and Yasuni National Park. The Ecuadorian Amazon has a number of high quality and affordable jungle lodges that excel at unlocking the mysteries of the rainforest.
Travelers can look forward to an exotic paradise teeming with life where almost half of the planet's 8,500 bird species, more than 1,200 butterflies, and thousands of reptiles and mammals thrive amidst a primordial setting of black-water lagoons, winding creeks, and towering trees. Moreover, Ecuador's rainforest is home to thousands of indigenous inhabitants from dozens of distinct nations, including the Siona, Secoya, Cofan, Shuar, Zaparo, and the infamous Huaorani.
More life hums, buzzes, chatters and bubbles in the Amazon Rainforest than anywhere else on the planet. One Amazonian tree can hosts more ant species than all of the British Isles put together; one hectare of forest boasts about as many frog species as all of North America; and, the great expanse of the jungle contains more than twenty percent of the earth's vascular plant species. Here you can find a monkey small enough to sit on your fingertip, an eight-pound toad, a spider that eats birds, and the world's largest snake, the 30-foot anaconda.
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