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The amazon is the "Mother Jungle" (Sachamama). Its home to the last free-roaming animals and to the vegetable universe in its greatest splendor. Its the great temple of Nature as a proof to Gods original ideas, without human beings manipulation. When we travel in the inside of the woods, our body recognizes this hallowed place, and each of our cellsawakens from its urban lethargy. Our inner biology readjusts to the regular recurrence of the pure air offered to us by the sacred garden. Our minds are tardily cleansed and we begin to hear the functions of the birds, the fish, the boa, the crocodile and the wind. For the first time we hear the powerful voice of the storm before it breaks into passionate rain. The mighty music of the concert of sustenance on planet Earth. After the water, the sun comes with its live-giving embrace. All the animals perform Life, Love, and death in the Forest. At dusk, infinite heartbeats become superstar and an ancient and big peace fill s our bodies and minds. Biodiversity and anthropology are the fundamentalcharacteristics of the Ecuadorian Amazon. A haven toornithology, bugology and orchidology to uniqueland mammals --primates, felines, tapirs and manyothers to Pink Dolphins to countless reptiles,insects and amphibians, the Amazon jungle is alsothe home to some of the last and most ancestrallyunique human groups the Huaorani and Quechuacultures.Along with those main interests, visitors can get ataste of shamanism (spiritual cleansing rituals),jungle gastronomy, natural cosmetics, traditionalmedicine, and Amazon handicrafts.Regularly schedule programs invite visitors tostay in beautiful Jungle Lodges that blend perfectlyinto the woodwind instrument and offer a full range of activities tointroduce them into the globe of the Amazon basin,including boat rides in rivers walled by the mostluxuriant plant life on earth, and walks under anendless canopy of giant trees. The "Sachamama" trips take visitors to one of the last areas of totally virgin forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon. at that place are no roads in this part of the jungle. Travel is do exclusively by river and by air, entering the jungle by oddly chartered airplane and travelling by indigenous methods by sand trap canoe. The group then stops along the river to penetrate the interior of the forest and camp every night on the beaches of the river or in the forest at the waters edge, the natives way...The program allows small and selected groups of visitors to participate in the life of the Amazon and its people, sharing their ways, their nomad lodgings, their jungle.