At LA SELVA Jungle Lodge, situated high on Lake Garzacocha, deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, we offer you the ultimate in luxury jungle experience. Ours is a very special way to visit the Amazon rainforest, and we hope that this web page will answer many of your questions about how to visit us. We have many exciting excursions which will give you a genuine feeling for this important, beautiful and richly biodiverse region of the world. It is our hope that your stay with us will give you an experience of, and a relationship with our jungle which you will never in your life forget.
Besides our small size (which will remain unchanged despite great demand) and our vast experience, LA SELVA also offers you as much world class efficiency as you want. We like to say that anything we can control we do control, and friendly service is one of our trademarks.

Be sure to check out our ecologically-oriented facilities which will heighten your vacation adventure.

What can you expect to feel at LA SELVA? As close to nature as you've ever been. Through more than fifteen years of refinement, we have achieved a oneness with our enviroment. We sit high on a lake called Garzacocha. The cabanas come of native design; rustic, authentic, confortable with unexpected amenities, hot water and sanitary beyond your wildest expectations.

The food is our pride. It blends the finest ingredients Ecuador has to offer with French, North American and Ecuadorian culinary skills. Expect to try most of these fruits: uvillas, guayabas, guanabanas, naranjillas, morete, obos, taxo, granadilla and tomate de arbol. We make Amazonian pizza that will rival any; veal milanesa a l'Amazon; and local fish, when available, prepared with one of our numerous original recipes (Vegetarian and special diets are available request).

Most of the answers to your questions about our very special way to visit the Amazon Rainforest will be found by reading what follows. You may also wish to consult a guidebook or a travel agent for an independent opinion about LA SELVA. Additionally, we have a large English-speaking staff in our office who are eager to help you. Please do not hesitate to e-mail, fax or phone to ask us anything: We've heard it all!

To get a feeling for where you are headed, imagine a tranquil country: Ecuador, and to the east deep in a Rainforest of unparalleled biodiversity, deep in the sensuous Amazon Basin, a lodge, a paradise, where anything is possible