Jungle cabin with scenic view of the Amazon jungle

Have a unique vacation in this private cabin in the Amazon. The cabin is 120 m2 and is located in the middle of the rainforest in a Shuar community. The house can be rented for a week, two weeks, a month or as long as you need to relax, enjoy the jungle, the Shuar culture or work on a project, book or anything else. The cabin is normally rented with meals provided by a local chef and guide (included in the price). The fee also includes access to the 1000-hectare reserve and guiding. Other things to note Arútam Rainforest Reserve The cabin is located in the middle of the Arútam Rainforest Reserve. The reserve is 2600 acres of pristine rainforest at the base of the Andean foothills at an altitude varying from 550-1000 meters above sea level. The reserve lies in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. It is connected to another 250.000 acres of communally owned forest that melts together with a massive patch of the undisturbed forest all the way into Peru and Brazil. The reserve flora is highly varied, with everything from podocarpus to mahogany, palms, bromeliads and an overwhelming variety of orchids. The fauna is just as varied, including species such as: Pumas, howler monkeys, saki monkeys, tamarin monkeys, nocturnal monkeys, squirrels, white-lipped and collared peccaries, ocelots, margay cats, sloths, anteaters, armadillos, coatis, agoutis, pacas, otters, caimans and occasionally jaguars and tapirs. The birds are even more numerous and represent species such as military macaws, parakeets, toucans, curassows, guans, hummingbirds, manakins, antbirds, tanagers, tinamous and oropendolas. Local villagers can name and know more than 220 species of birds that are present in the immediate surroundings of the community. One hectare (2.5 acres) of rainforest in Ecuador and Arútam can contain over 750 types of trees and 1.500 species of higher plants. In total, in Ecuador, there is an estimate of some 25.000 species of plants alone (compared to 17000 species in the whole of North America), and there are 1600 birds found in the country, which is more than double the species in Europe. There are 369 known species of mammals, 350 species of reptiles - containing over 200 species of snakes alone. There exist around 400 amphibians in the country, which is the most species of frogs in the world as well as an estimated 800 species of fish in the Amazon waters. The number of invertebrates, especiallylly the insects, is unknown, but they are the most numerous of any living creatures, reaching into the hundreds of thousands.