In the jungle outside the village, friar Hector José Rivera and his delightful monkeys run this hilltop oasis overlooking the Amazon. The complex includes several simple huts, shared facilities and a lookout tower. Between the monkeys, turkeys, dogs and macaws roaming about, there's a real menagerie to enjoy, along with utter isolation and free use of canoes on the Amazon.
To get here, take the main street (parallel to the Amazon, two blocks back) west out of Puerto Nariño across the big bridge; keep left at the cemetery and walk through the high-school campus, then turn right immediately after passing the soccer pitch.
