Parque Etnobotánico Omaere — Attraction in Puyo

Great natural park to visit. Really beautiful. The tour is not expensive and is of very high value. Very scenic relaxing walk. Lots of knowledge from the guide. The shop at the end has very high quality crafts from the area and good natural medicine that helped me a lot after! It really did. The crafts are higher quality I think, beautiful, and better prices here. I was lucky as Chris shared local stories and customs after with his personal acting and presentation, in the authentic lodge! How amazing....

For a $3 donation, you can take the couple hour tour of the grounds and learn a lot about traditional medicinal uses of many rainforest plants. The guide / guy who manages the place speaks at least Spanish, French, and English, if not more. Due to the groups of people who showed up on the busy holiday weekend we were there, our tour was at various parts in each of these three languages. There's also a little shop at the end where you can buy skincare made from the...

Our guided tour of this Amazonian ethnobotanical park, done by biologist Chris Canaday, was extraordinary. Whatever else you might experience in the way of nature tours, you would benefit from adding a stop in Puyo to see and hear what is offered here. Chris' knowledge of the medicinal uses of many, many types of plants and trees, learned from his Shuar wife Teresa Shiki, is exceptionally broad and deep. Not...