Gareno Lodge

Gareno Lodge has been built in the style of the indigenous Amazon people, accommodation in 4 private double cabins with private bathroom, hot-water, and balconies with hammocks, all with view over the "gareno" river.

Community Project
In September 2000 Gareno Lodge and a Quichua family signed a contract with the federation of the Huaoranis (ONHAE) to build the Lodge in their territory. It is a community project, to build up a good working community with medical assistance and education. As our guests in the Lodge, you will be giving direct help to the Huaorani community of Gareno, since half of the entrance fee directly to the federation, benefiting all Huaoranis.

Bird watching in Gareno
After a two hour drive from Tena we enter the planet's largest remaining tropical rainforest, the Amazonian Rainforest. It extends over most of the six million square kilometers of the Amazon Basin.

This, the world's greatest network of rivers and lakes, contains about 20%
of the world's fresh water and roughly 10% of all of the species of animals on earth.
Approximately 2% of the Amazon Rainforest lies within Ecuador's borders in the eastern part of the country.
Gareno Lodge is probably the most important piece of this tropical treasure on the northeastern slope of Ecuador's Amazonian Rainforest. It protects 10,000 hectares of mostly virgin terra firme forest, rolling hills, river borders and swamps.

For a forest of 10,000 hectares, it is home for more species of plants
and animals than almost anywhere else on earth.
The area where Gareno lodge is located is part of the largest Pleistocene center of endemism in the Amazon basin. This area of rainforest survived the last ice age and later repopulated the forest with species of birds, which after having evolved in isolation, were new and unique to the region.
One out of every three species of the 1,700 species of birds known to occur in Ecuador are found here in the Gareno lodge area.

We at Neblina Forest and Gareno Lodge aim to create a new public awareness of the importance of birds and how their preservation is dependent upon preservation of this unique ecosystem. 
Our goal of contibuting to a better future for everyone goes hand in hand with preserving this unique region, not only for the present and for the birds, but for future generations of people in this region for years to come.