{"id":18597,"date":"2018-03-23T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isobaresoffit.com\/?p=18597"},"modified":"2018-03-22T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T18:52:13","slug":"parrot-clay-lick-in-the-yasuni-national-park-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isobaresoffit.com\/2018\/03\/23\/parrot-clay-lick-in-the-yasuni-national-park-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Parrot Clay Lick in the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"

When visiting Yasuni National Park in the Amazon, one of the tours will take you out to see the parrots and parakeets licking the clay on a cliff along the banks of the Napo River in Ecuador. The tours are organized by the Napo Wildlife Center, whose property is where the licks are located, and the best time to visit is just after dawn in the morning. Activity at the clay lick is even more abundant on mornings when it isn’t raining, so we were fortunate to have a clear day during our visit since it is called a rainforest for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n

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Colorful Parrots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hundreds of Parrots at the Clay Lick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Flying In and Flying Out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The night before our tour, our nature guide offered us the choice of sleeping in an extra thirty minutes and having breakfast on the boat or getting up at 4:30 am to eat before departing on the tour. Since we had be up so early every morning, we gladly chose to stay in bed for any extra time that he would offer us and the chef of the lodge prepared a variety of food for us to eat on the boat. Despite being in the jungle, it was surprisingly cool on the water as we made our way to the first of two clay licks that we were to visit that day.<\/p>\n