First Full Day:
Departure time: 5:30 am
Return time: 6:00 pm
Duration: 12 ½ hours (including 1 hour break for lunch)
Trails: Meandrica, Universal, Quebrada Bonita and Araceas
Description: A full-day bird watching hike, the tour starts at the Meandrical trail, a one way path with five different micro-ecosystems ranging from 25-year-old pasture fields to secondary growth forests aging more than 200 years. We’ll also visit a swampy lagoon with floating vegetation and surrounded by 125-feet-tall forest. After a few hours birding, the tour breaks for a cold drink and lunch at a nearby restaurant (not included with the tour rate).
Following lunch, the tour heads into the high canopy forest trails until dark. On this part of the hike, we will bird on 3 trail systems boarding river edges and deep jungle.

Second Full Day:
Departure time: 5:30 am
Return time: 6:00 pm
Duration: 12 1/2 hours (including 1 hour break for lunch)
Description: The day will start with a hike on the Bijagual’s town road. Although most of the area is open and set at the edge of forest, some species of birds are seen here rather than in the park. It is a great opportunity to spot Montezuma Oropendula, Gray capped Flycather, Slaty Spinetail, Painted Bunting, Dacnis, King Vultures, Zone tailed Hawks and more.
We will return to this road after our boat tour to see more raptors and witness the daily migration of Scarlet Macaws to the mangroves. One of the day’s highlights, the boat tour of the mangroves and adjacent forests reveals an array of long-legged, long-necked water birds, kingfishers, woodpeckers and mangrove specialties such as Mangrove Hummingbird, Vireo, Warbler, Panama and Scrub Flycatchers, and if we’re lucky, perhaps the Rufous necked Woodrail.

Tour includes professional bird guide and Carara National Park and Tarcoles Area Bird Checklist.

Rate: $240 (maximum 6 people) plus additional $25 per person for the Mangrove boat trip

*** the order of activities/trail are subject to change***