Ecuador Hotels

Here your hobby is not some peripheral side-line to a normal tourist trap.  This is a place where the staff doesn't frown if you need a 4 o'clock breakfast, a place where your passion for birds and wildlife is shared by the other guests and staff.  A place where you can walk in and see four telescopes, five pairs of bins, and a mass of camera gear sitting around because we're all relaxed and we know that it's 'our' place.

Yes, it's a place where you can see twenty hummers in a day, a dozen other species passing by the dining room windows over breakfast, and over one hundred species from your balcony alone.  Now, throw in the canopy deck, the large forest floor feeding hide and our extensive trail system, and you have the ultimate birding destination.

Birding at Tandayapa starts right on the balcony.  Early in the morning many birds come to feed on the insects that are attracted to the lights on the walls during the night. Among the regular visitors are:

• Streak-capped treehunter
• Tricoloured and white-winged brush-finches
• Grey-breasted woodwren
• White-winged becard
• Dusky-capped flycatcher
• Three-striped warbler

SERVICES AND FACILITIES

1. Private bathrooms
2. Canopy deck
3. Forest floor feeding hide

Available with advance reservation:

1. Vehicle transport
2. Professional bilingual birding guides

ACCOMODATION

Tandayapa Lodge houses twelve rooms and a spacious balcony nestled within the cloud forest. Rooms are conveniently situated near the main lounge and are available in singles, doubles, triples and family rooms.

ACTIVITIES

• Birding day trips in a variety of sites: Upper Tandayapa Valley, Yanacocha, Pululahua and Calacalí, Mindo, Paz de las Aves, Milpe, Four Rivers, Río Silanche/PVM
• Trekking through Tandayapa´s trail system