The Curandero Seminar Lodge

The Ayahuasca Curandero Seminar is held at the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve.  The National Reserve has some amazing hiking trails that lead to orchards of fruit trees, botanical gardens, the research center where they breed poisonous tree frogs, and a new butterfly house. While the road back to the ‘real world’ will only be a hundred meters away, so too is virgin Amazon Rainforest, less than 40 meters away. It is actually a rather small reserve, so it is easy to find your way around, allowing for personal explorations and profound connections with the plants and animals. There are often monkeys near the lodge and numerous bird species everywhere, and of course there are butterflies…

It is located well out of the city, in the beautiful Amazon Rainforest. Seminar participants will stay at the Reserve’s main lodge, and the workshops will be held in various locations around the park. The lodge features some of the comforts of home, like electricity, flushing toilets and running water in the sinks and showers, but it is still a rustic venue that will keep participants close to the plants.

In addition to the main Lodge with the dormitory style rooms, there is a screened in kitchen and dining room nearby.  The dining room is also used for workshops and discussions.  There is also a gorgeous research building with informative displays and a poison dart frog breeding program.  This space is used for lectures and film presentations.  There is always work being done at the botanical garden, which is the largest in the region, but very few tourists know about the reserve so there are rarely any other visitors.