Ecuador Travel Agency "Parks and Tribes"

Welcome to the Parks and Tribes website all about national parks eco tours in Ecuador. Let us tell you more about the fantastic national parks of Ecuador, that no other travel agent will ever tell you. Our experts are some of the most knowladgable people on the planet about the parks systems that Ecuador has to offer. This is possible because we were on the team that origionally selected the areas of the national parks system during the mid 1970s.

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Local native falconer with his eagle.

Who Are We?

Our team includes the likes of:

  • Dr. Daan "Parks Man" Vreugdenhil, who was a member of the former United Nations team that selected the National Parks System of Ecuador

  • Dr. Flavio Coello, former director of the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve and current professor or ecotourism and national parks management

  • Dr. Randy Borman, official member of the native Cofan Tribe.

Nobody knows the national parks and reserves of Ecuador better than we do.

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Chimborazo Mountain, the farthest point from the center of the earth - including mount everst.

Ecuador's National Parks System

Ecuador has some of the richest national parks systems in the world, with the greatest varieties on earth in the climate zones of Ecuador, landscapes and species of native animals of Ecuador and the flowers of Ecuador. In other words, Ecuador is the most biodiverse country in the world calculated per square kilometer. This is why we are proud to bring you many different ecotours to that visit the best national parks of Ecuador, belding the experiance with many famous places in Ecuador.

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A Jaguar, one of the many local spiecies.

Why Visit the National Parks of Ecuador?

  1. Ecuador is the world's climatically most diverse country with tropical rainforests along the North coast and in the Amazon, deserts along the south coast and Galapagos and the Andes mountains in the middle, creating a great variety in climates;

  2. The most beautiful landscapes of Ecuador are in its parks and reserves;

  3. There are 59 parks and reserves, each with interesting nature and beauty that can't be found anywhere else;

  4. The most interesting vacations are those that combine culture and nature; Ecuador has both;

  5. Ecuador is a small country and you can easily visit a different park everyday;

  6. Nowhere else in the world can you find so much different life forms and ecosystems at such short distances;

  7. There are somewhere around 1650 species of birds recorded for Ecuador, most of which live in the parks and reserves;

  8. With 9 climate zones, there are always parks that can be visited during an optimal season;

  9. Parks vary from rain-drenched Amazon parks, to semi-deserts on the south coast, from chilly high elevation areas to coastal mangroves, from cloud-forests to cactus jungles, from lakes to mountain tops;

  10. Your visit is essential for the conservation of the parks and reserves of Ecuador.

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One Catapillar out of the many you can see in Ecuador.

10 REASONS TO MAKE THE NATIONAL PARKS ECO TOURS

  1. First of all, because nobody else organizes such tours;

  2. Only Parks & Tribes actually knows the majority of the protected areas of Ecuador;

  3. We trained a limited number of guides to accompany the tours;

  4. We always strife for the most economical solutions in pleasant 3 star hotel environments;

  5. It is the mission of Parks & Tribes to help protect the protected areas of Ecuador;

  6. Senior conservation biologists of Parks & Tribes who selected the national parks system of Ecuador in the 1970s developed the programs!;

  7. The only tour operator with an Indian tribe as owners (Cofan Indians);

  8. Our mission is to protect, not to make money, therefore we strife for economical prices so that more people can participate;

  9. Significant group discounts;

  10. Major Combi-Discount National Parks Ecotours Ecuador and visit the Galapagos Islands. Ask for details!

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Ecuador has one of the widest ranges of birds in the entire world including the Green Macaw.

WHY WE CREATED PARKS AND TRIBES

Our jungle biologists started organizing national park tours in the nineteen eighties because we were concerned that many ecotourism operators of ECOTOURS mostly organize tours outside the national parks, taking their guests to easily reachable patches of secondary forest. By doing so, such tour operators actually compete with the really important official nature reserves. We want to bring you to the national parks, where you can enjoy the best nature in Ecuador.


We also feel that national parks need to create employment and economic opportunities for communities living near the protected areas. By organizing national parks tours, we let you enjoy the most fantastic nature of the country thereby contributing to the conservation of Ecuador's fantastic national parks while helping local communities at the same time. So, by coming along on our tours, you get to see the best of the best Ecuador has to offer, while conserving pristine nature and helping communities.


We try to organize our tours as economically as possible, but you should be aware that hiring transportation with a guide costs us about $200 per day. So you can calculate that we are not making a lot of money on our pricing.

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A small turtle making its way to the water for the very first time.