Tours and other Services

Many folks arriving on their own to Cabañas San Isidro can find it helpful to hire a generalist or specialized birding guide for a more enriching and complete experience.

BIRDECUADOR has many years of experience and works with the most experienced guides and drivers in Ecuador. Setting up and running high quality birding and general interest tours to Cabañas San Isidro lodges, as well as many other popular and off-the-beaten-track destinations in Ecuador, is San Isidro forte. If you have the Galapagos Islands in your sights, contact us for reasonable rates on a variety of well-run and comfortable vessels.

San Isidro Lodge can help you to create any combination of destinations throughout Ecuador for your personalized trip.

San Isidro has designed and suggests the itineraries below for a well-rounded visit to some of the favorite spots chock-full of birds and other natural wonders within easy reach of the capital city, Quito.

Please contact Cabañas San Isidro directly for more information about these and other trips.

Cabañas San Isidro & Guango Lodge: Birds of the High Paramo and Lush Cloud Forests of Ecuador 's East Slope.

A week long emersion into the heart of the richest and most accessible highland Andean cloud forest habitats on Ecuador 's NE slope, which form the upper headwaters of the Napo River.

For those with less time on their hands, this itinerary is the perfect way to dive right into a fabulous and diverse avifauna while based at two comfortable lodges in the subtropical (San Isidro) and temperate (Guango) zones.

Cabañas San Isidro and Guango Lodge also offer the best access to nearby birding in the higher paramo and lower foothill zones, and can easily be worked as day and half-day trips.

Day 1 - Quito to Guango Lodge.
Day 2 - Guango Lodge and vicinity.
Day 3 - To Cabañas San Isidro .
Days 4, 5 & 6 - Cabañas San Isidro .
Day 7 - Return to Quito .

 

Cabañas San Isidro, Guango Lodge & Tandayapa Lodge: Birding in the Andes (at its best) along a transect of the fabled 'Highway of the Volcanoes'.

The ideal cross-section of habitats for birds seeking a fine and vast selection of birds occurring on both the west and east slopes. No ten day trip has such potential for mind-boggling numbers and quality views of hummingbirds, tanagers and other Andean highlights.

Day 1 - To Tandayapa Lodge.
Day 2 - Full day birding the Tandayapa area.
Day 3 - Full day exploring the slopes of the west slope based out of Tandayapa Lodge.
Day 4 - Return to Quito .
Day 5 - To Guango Lodge.
Day 6 - To Cabañas San Isidro .
Day 7, 8 & 9 - Three full days to bird the Cabañas San Isidro and nearby areas.
Day 10 - Return to Quito .

 

Cabañas San Isidro , Guango Lodge & Sacha Lodge: Mountain Peaked Highlands, Cloud Forest-Blanketed Hills and Vast Amazonian Lowlands .

From seedsnipes to tanagers, sensational birding awaits on Ecuador 's NE slope & down into the Amazonian Lowlands while following in the footsteps of Spanish conquistador, Francisco Orellana.

This impressive trek follows the same route that Orellana took 400 years ago, when he made his way to Ecuador's Amazon from Quito. Although the spectacular birds and their pristine habitat are still there, Orellana's arduous route through the jungle has been eased significantly by paved roads that stretch all the way to Coca. From here a motorized canoe ride whisks visitors up the impressive Napo River and into the dense forest lowlands of the Amazon. If only Orellana's journey had been this comfortable!

Day 1 - Quito to Guango Lodge.
Day 2 - To Cabañas San Isidro .
Days 3, 4 & 5 - Three full days to bird the Cabañas San Isidro and nearby areas.
Day 6 - To Coca.
Days 7, 8 & 9 - Three full days at Sacha Lodge.
Day 10 - Return to Quito .