Tour A: Andes / Los Llanos - Tour
Day 1: Arrival to Mérida airport. Then drive to La Azulita and stay in a nice posada. There we will bird around La Carbonera cloud forest and coffee plantations.
Highlights: Crested Quetzal, Masked Trogon, Plush capped Finch, Military Macaw, Bronze Winged Parrot, Rose Headed Parakeet, Black Mandibled Toucan, Collared Aracari, Emerald Toucanet and different hummingbirds, flycatchers and tanagers.
Overnight in nice Posada in La Azulita
Day 2: In the morning we will bird around La Azulita again. When the bird activity gets quiet, we will drive to Tabay and bird in the afternoon in the subtropical cloud forest beyond La Mucuy.
We will stay in the beautiful Posada Casa Vieja.
Day 3: Full day at La Mucuy, Sierra Nevada National Park. Some of the birds are: tanagers, endemic hummingbirds and with some luck endemic antpittas and endemic tapaculos.
Overnight in Posada Casa Vieja.
Day 4: We drive to the Páramo, which is between 3000 and 4300 meters/ 14000 feet, and start to bird down the outside wall of the Andes.
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Highlights: Andean Condor, Black-Chested Buzzard-Eagle, Torrent Duck, Ochre-browed Thistletail (endemic), Bearded Helmetcrest (endemic), Paramo Wren (endemic) and the Sword-Billed Hummingbird.
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In the afternoon we go down to the Santo Domingo Valley to La Soledad, San Isidro, and Los Frailes.
Highlights: Cock of the Rock, Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, Crested Quetzal, Masked Trogon, Sword-Billed Hummingbird, and various sunangels and fruiteaters.
We will stay in the Posada Caceres in Altamira.
Day 5: After breakfast we will bird in the Altamira area, looking for the Wire-tailed Manakin, White-bearded Manakin, Golden-headed Manakin, White crowned Manakin, as well as many tanagers and hummingbirds. Here are plenty of trails where to observe. Around 11 am there are soaring birds of pray. With luck we might see a Black and chestnut Eagle, Crested Eagle or Black Hawk Eagle.
We will stay in the Posada Caceres in Altamira.
Day 6: In the morning we will drive to our ranch in los Llanos. Here it is possible to see up to 150 bird species in one day. Los Llanos is also the best area in Venezuela to see wildlife like Orinoco crocodile, spectacled caiman, giant anteater, different turtels, capybaras, monkeys, etc.
Highlights: Orinocan Saltator, Ruby Topaz and Copper-rumped Hummingbird, Orange-crowned Oriole, Russet-throated Puffbird, Pale-headed Jacamar, Yellow-knobbed Curassow, Scarlet Macaw, White-fringed Antwren, Barred- and Black-Crested Antshrike, as well as all kinds of storks, ibis, herons, hawks, kites, falcons, caracaras, vultures, etc.
We stay at Hato el Cedral.
Day 7: Fullday birding in the Hato. In the morning we do a boat excursion on the Caño Cuaritíco. Besides the shorebirds we will see dolphins in the river . In the afternoon we will concentrate on birds, or, if you would prefer, the animals that we haven’t seen yet.
Highlights: the Hoatzin and, with luck, the Ornate Hawk-Eagle. Jabiru stork, roseate spoonbill, owls as well as parrots and macaws. Overnight Hato el Cedral
Day 8: We will drive to Barinas airport and in the afternoon you will get your flight to Caracas, or to your next destination like Canaima, Los Roques, etc.
Preise: 1 Pax: EUR 1540/Person
2-3 Pax: EUR 1180/Person
4 or more Pax: EUR 990/Person
Extra day in Los Llanos: EUR 180/Person
Extra day in Mérida: EUR 150/Person
Includes: Bilingual bird guide, Transportation, Lodging, all meals, nationalpark entrance, cooling box full with ice, softdrinks and beers.
Note: If the water level is to low in los Llanos the boat excursion might not be possible to do and we make an other safari.
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