Ecuador Butterfly Tour Northwest Slope.

This full‑day tour will be one of the best experiences of your life. Here, we’ll find approximately 80 butterfly species, including endemics of the Pacific slope. You’ll also enjoy a delicious lunch overlooking the butterfly feeders and the tropical forest. Get ready for an unforgettable adventure with us!

Pick‑up from Quito Airport or any hotel in the Quito area.

Our adventure begins about 30 minutes from the city, where we’ll pass through beautiful high Andean forest landscapes. Then we descend to reach the cloud forest and finally arrive at our lodge in the Nanegal La Delicia tropical forest, home to a wide variety of endemic species.

Butterfly Watching & Photography

Welcome to Butterfly and Bird Julio Tours Eco‑Lodge in the La Delicia community in the Nanegal tropical forest. In this pristine rainforest habitat, you can expect to see and photograph a high diversity of butterfly species along the community trail.

Target Species include:

• Savin Ticleaf

• Broad‑tipped Clearwing

• Inca Metalmark

• Neglected Sarota

• Diaethria clymena

• Cithaerias aurorina

• With luck, the impressive Arca anterus butterfly.

Our open‑air restaurant provides a unique dining experience, allowing you to enjoy lunch among hummingbird feeders with spectacular forest views.

Lunch & Bird Photography

After lunch, we’ll continue our butterfly photography adventure in the restaurant garden and surrounding flower areas. The hummingbird feeders and nearby trees also offer excellent opportunities to observe and photograph many bird species.

Other species you may see:

• Callimormus radiola elegans

• Phocides metrodorus

• White‑spotted Prepona

• Pagyris cymothoe sylvella

Hummingbird species:

• Green Thorntail

• Purple‑crowned Fairy

• White‑whiskered Hermit (Chocó endemic)

• Crowned Woodnymph

• Green‑crowned Brilliant

Target Birds:

• Chocó Tyrannulet

• Swallow Tanager

• Guayaquil Woodpecker

• Black‑cheeked Woodpecker

• Silver‑throated Tanager

• Chocó Toucan

• Yellow‑throated Toucan

• Collared Aracari

Return

At approximately 4:30 PM, transfer back to any hotel in Quito or to Quito Airport.