Videos tagged with "rain forest"

Into the Rain Forest [06:26]
A segment of a photoshow of a Road Scholar tour, "The Many Faces of Ecuador" taken January 2012.
Tags: sacha lodge, Ecuador, Amazon, Rio Napo, Napo River, rain forest, jungle, ecotourism, travel, photography, wildlife

This Is My Jungle Pad - Ecuador [02:46]
The best way to get the most of your stay in the Amazon Jungle is by staying in a real jungle hut. Here you have a bed with a mosquito net, you get served great food and you live right in the middle of your rain forest adventure.
Tags: amazon, hut, jungle, pad, rainforest, south america, Amazon Rainforest, travel, tourism, adventure, jungle pad, nature, bunk bed, mosquito net, camel back, destination, toilet, wash room, ecuador, night trek, spider, snake, trek, scorpion, food, local foo

Approaching Sacha Lodge by Canoe, Amazon Basin Rain Forest, Ecuador [01:08]
Crossing Pilchicocha lake to Sacha Lodge by dugout canoe.
Tags: Sacha, Lodge, Amazon, Ecuador, Rain, Forest, Canoe

Cable Car Ride in the Jungle Canopy [01:35]
Free video about a cable car ride in the canopy of the cloudy rain forest close to the jungles of Ecuador. This video was created by epSos.de near Mindo of Ecuador. Mindo is a rural parish in Ecuador, located in the Los Bancos canton in the province of Pichincha. The parish is known for its growing eco tourism industry based in the Mindo-Nambillo Protected Forest. The cable car ride was $5. So, a minute in the air was equal to $5. A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate. The world's longest operable cable way is the Forsby-Köping limestone cable way in Sweden. It is 42 km long. Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall. Around 40% to 75% of all biotic species are indigenous to the rain forests. Tropical rain forests are rainforests in the tropics in the equatorial zone. A Jungle is an area of land in the tropics overgrown with dense vegetation. In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by plant crowns. For forests, canopy also refers to the upper layer or habitat zone. The canopy of a rainforest is typically about 10m thick, and intercepts around 95% of sunlight. Shade trees normally have a dense canopy that blocks light from lower growing plants. The tropics is a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator. This jungle is also a cloud forest. A cloud forest is a generally tropical or subtropical evergreen, moist forest ...
Tags: ride, cable car, canopy, jungle, flying, rainforest, mindo, Ecuador, forest, could forest, tropics, ecuator, green, hight

tunnel in rain forest [01:46]
driving along cliff in ecuador
Tags: banos, ecuador