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Address: Reina Victoria N21-226 y Vicente Ramón Roca, La Mariscal
Quito - Ecuador

Quito: +593 2 252 3777

USA: +1 888 288 7402
Fax: +593 2 252 3327

Email: sales@yachana.com
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Yachana Video Gallery

There are 4 videos in our collection (click the picture to start playing):

Introduction to Yachana Lodge

This video will start with the beautiful views you'll see on your way to Yachana, from the Andes mountains to the Amazon rainforest.

Then, you'll see the spectacular surroundings at Yachana, including our lovely gardens and cozy accomodations. While here, there are endless activities you can enjoy, including hiking through primary rainforest, going for a refreshing swim, or participating in a traditional cleansing ceremony by a local medicine man.

Or do nothing at all and enjoy a drink on our new deck overlooking the Napo river. Whatever you choose, you won't want to leave...

Geotourism initiative

Geotourism - is known as tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place. Revenue from Yachana lodge has raised over two million dollars that has been reinvested in the community. Students from Yachana high school are involved in the lodge's ongoing ecotourism projects.

The lodge and high school are aiming to be as energy and economically self-sufficient as possible. Yachana uses alternative energy systems of solar and hydro electric power.

The high school is learning to generate its own revenue through micro enterprises and agricultural practices.

NY Times Video #1

In April of 2008, Nicholas Kristoff, two time pulitzer prize winner and reporter with the New York Times visited Yachana Lodge and High School. In this video, learn about one of Yachana's expert naturalist guides, Juan Kunchikuy, and hear of his experiences growing up in a remote village of the Amazon Rainforest.

Listen to Yachana founder, Douglas McMeekin describe the inner workings of Yachana lodge and high school.

See how Yachana uses education to teach local Amazon residents how to earn a sustainable income while simultaneously having minimal environmental impact on the Amazon rainforest.

NY Times Video #2

One of Yachana's expert naturalist guides spent the first seventeen years of his life in a remote jungle village where he learned to food with blow gun and poison darts.

In this video, Juan describes how a blow gun is made and demonstrates the process of loading and shooting a blow gun.

To illustrate his expert hunting skills, Juan targets a cacao fruit that is placed on New York Times reporter, Nicholas Kristoff's head.

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