Description

Tena has a burgeoning number of community ecotourism projects driven largely by the region’s politically active and environmentally aware Kichwa population. In most cases, the whole community is involved, from the building of simple tourist cabanas near the villages to the training of their guides. Tours typically include guided forest hikes, cultural exchanges through music, dance and narration, participation in a minga (shared community work), panning for gold, blowpipe competitions, swimming, tubing and canoeing, discussions on the use of medicinal plants, and craftwork demonstrations.