* Daily schedule is approximate and may change at the leader's discretion.
Santa Elena Cloud Forest
Monteverde Cloud Forest
La Ensenada
Palo Verde Nat. Park
Carara Nat. Park
March 21-29, 2009
(9 days, 8 nights)
Price $TBA
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Sat
Mar 21 |
San Jose
Hotel Aeropuerto
Included Meals: |
Tour begins with dinner and orientation at the Hotel Aeropuerto in Alajuela near the international airport. |
Sun
Mar 22 |
Santa Elena Reserve
Hotel Heliconia
Included Meals: BLD |
Morning departure for Monteverde. Following check-in at hotel, view and photograph birds around lodge during morning. After lunch visit Santa Elena Reserve where we'll look for and photograph cloud forest birds. |
Mon
Mar 23 |
Monteverde Cloud Forest
Hotel Heliconia
Included Meals: BLD |
All morning photographing birds in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, including a visit to the Hummingbird Gallery outside entrance. Lunch in restaurant at entrance. Afternoon walking additional trails in reserve viewing and photographing birds and other animals. |
Tues
Mar 24 |
Monteverde
Liberia
Las Espuelas
Included Meals: BLD |
Morning making photographs of birds in hotel's private reserve or elsewhere near Monteverde. Late afternoon transfer to Liberia. |
Wed
Mar 25 |
Palo Verde Nat. Park
Las Espuelas
Included Meals: BLD |
All day boat trip into Palo Verde National Park viewing and photographing Jabiru, herons, ibises, jacanas, and hawks that inhabit the wetlands. |
Thurs
Mar 26 |
La Ensenada
Orotina
Rio Tarcoles Bridge
Villa Lapas
Included Meals: BLD |
After breakfast transfer to Carara, stopping in Orotina to view and photograph roosting Black-and-White Owls. Afternoon photography of birds in Carara National Park. Late afternoon visit to the Rio Tarcoles Bridge to see Scarlet Macaws. |
Fri
Mar 27 |
Carara Nat. Park
Villa Lapas
Included Meals: BLD |
Morning making photographs of birds and other animals along the Laguna Meandrica Trail in Carara National Park. Lunch at restaurant. Afternoon walk the Headquarters Trail in Carara National Park to photograph primary more secretive rainforest birds such as antpittas. |
Sat
Mar 28 |
Carara Nat. Park
San Jose
Hotel Aeropuerto
Included Meals: BLD |
Morning return to the Laguna Meandrica Trail, where we'll concentrate on a wetlands area to photograph tiger-herons and other birds. Mid afternoon transfer to hotel in San Jose. |
Sun
Mar 29 |
San Jose
Included Meals: BLD |
Early breakfast and transfer to international airport for flight home. End of Tour. |
