Cascadas Kintia Panki — Attraction in Sucua

VERY BAD EXPERIENCE! We have decided to walk to this place. Walk was actually amazing. We were surrounded by beautiful nature. After two and half hour walk we came to small creek in the end of which was supposed to be waterfall. Trail to waterfall is terrible. Nobody takes any care about this place. As we were approaching the fall four indigenous people catched with us. The were quite aggressive. None of them spoke any English. Finally we understood that they wanted money.... $10 dollars. It is outrageous! Ten dollars for what? It is very tiny waterfall, trail is terrible. We decided to leave because the had machetes and woman had a spear. I was definitely the worst experience we had during our 3 month-long...

La experiencia que se vive en Kintia Panki es muy buena acorde al precio, al pagar $5 se puede acceder a una serie de actividades que inician con el pintado de rostros y una ceremonia de bienvenida en la que se establece un nombre para el jefe de grupo, se hace la visita de dos cascadas en las que hay como ingresar y tomarse fotos, además de poder inhalar tabaco tradicional y hacerse limpias curativas y energéticas, culmina con una danza tradicional en la que el grupo interviene. Recomiendo totalmente la experiencia ya que no es costosa y se ayuda a la economía de la comunidad, cuentan con una gran variedad de souvenirs elaborados con materiales de la zona y además tienen su parte gastronómica que es muy buena, personalmente recomiendo el pescado asado y los maduros con queso. Si planeas visitar el lugar es indispensable el usar gorra, bloqueador solar, repelente de mosquitos y zapatos de senderismo que facilitan la ruta, finalmente les invito a visitar el lugar ya que es una auténtica experiencia con la naturaleza y...

Interesting place to learn about the Shuar culture and see some waterfalls. The people were friendly and helpful. I think there are tours here but I suspect you can also just hire a taxi driver for a few hours to take you here. The owner of our AirBnB took us for $25 each (some of which went to...