Napo Lodge in Amazon offers Misty View

Photo looks like a painting because of the 1/100 shutter speed, letting color and haze soak into the picture.

Napo Lodge in the Napo Wildlife Center is sheer heaven from the food in the open dining area to the observation tower where you can see abundant wildlife.

There are ten cabins in the lodge, each secluded from the other and all having a view of a beautiful lake.

The entire facility is eco-friendly and includes every amenity you can think of--nets over the beds to keep bugs out, overhead fans, porches with hammocks, outstanding meals and a great library.

The guides that work here are ultra-accommodating and super-nice.

The picture above was taken from the top of the hill of the lodge at 1/100 second shutter speed, a long enough shutter speed to take in the moist haze and Amazon color to make the image look like a painting.

Check out my other post about traveling to the Wildlife Center. All the info about it is there.

Amazon Trip in Ecuador

You can't help but meet many Amazon natives when you're traveling through the rain forest.

After arriving in Coca, Ecuador, you can travel many miles by boat and canoe to get to the Napo Wildlife Center. The Napo Wildlife Center is in the Yasunì National Park.

It's great that the Napo Wildlife Center is there as they've preserved over 52,000 acres of rain forest. Much of the rain forest has been under attack by the oil companies who want to drill for oil, thus destroying the land.

In the picture above you see some members of the Quichua indigenous community. When you stay at Napo learn about the families are educated about their daily activities.

The Napo guides also take you on a trip to the parrot lick.

I highly recommend a trip to Napo and a stay at the Napo Wildlife Center. A great description of the Napo Wildlife Center is here.

To learn about some techniques used to photograph wildlife go to this post.