Toucans, trogons, motmots, and hummingbirds at Finca El Roble, guided by an ornithologist who knows their songs. Breakfast, binoculars, and scopes included.
Birding starts early, so this one comes with breakfast: traditional Costa Rican, cooked with local ingredients, to fuel the morning. Then out into the finca with an expert ornithologist.
The habitats here were chosen for their biodiversity, and the list shows it: toucans, trogons, motmots, hummingbirds, plus migratory species passing through. Your guide often hears a song before you see the bird, and explains what each species does for the ecosystem.
Binoculars and spotting scopes are provided. First bird walk or five hundredth, you leave with a longer list than you came with.
Final price depends on your pickup point.
We pick you up at your hotel or the airport and handle the full route, door to door.
Driving times are approximate.
One of them plans your day, picks you up and brings you back. Who exactly depends on the date.
Around twelve years in Costa Rican tourism. On the drive between Guanacaste and Arenal he points out how fast the landscape and climate change, and shares the history of both regions along the way. His picks: the Palo Verde boat safari and Rincón de la Vieja's Pailas trail.
Twenty years guiding Costa Rica as a general and naturalist guide, with a special passion for botany: he points out plant adaptations, ecological relationships and the quiet work that trees, flowers and lianas do in the ecosystem. His favorite day is Palo Verde, where wildlife, tropical wetlands, cultural traditions and history meet — and the birdlife is spectacular.
Twenty-two years in tourism, from restaurants to tour sales to driving and guiding. Místico is his favorite trail: rich in wildlife, easy to walk, and full of the forest's secrets. On transfers north he loves the moment the dry Pacific crosses an invisible line into rainforest green.
