Full Day Itinerary:
Departure time: 5:30 am
Return time: 6:00 pm
Duration: 12½ hours (including 1 hour break for lunch)
Trails: Meandrica, Universal, Quebrada Bonita and Araceas
Description: A full day hike that 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, which is 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.
A unique ecological situation in Costa Rica, Carara is located on a transitional area between Dry Tropical Forest and Tropical Lowland Forest (Pacific Rainforest), and offers a wonderful opportunity to explore and search for birds from both ecosystems.
Examples of this: Rufous capped Warbler vrs. Three stripe Warbler, Rufous and White Wren vrs. Black bellied Wren, Long billed Gnatwren vrs. White lored Gnatwren, Black headed Trogon vrs. Baird’s Trogon, Berly crowned Hummingbird vrs. Cinnamon Hummingbird, Orange collared Manakin vrs. Long tailed Manakin, Royal Flycatcher vrs. Bran colored Flycather, etc... and this is withoutincluding the coastal possibilities of the mangroves.

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

Rate: $120 (maximum 6 people)

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