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15 Days Bird Photography Tour
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Duration
15 days and 14 nights
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72 hours
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Spanish / English / French / Italian
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8 passengers
15 Days Bird Photography Tour
- You will visit the ecosystems of Páramo and High Andean Forest in the Nevados National Park.
- You can observe and photograph more than 22 species of hummingbirds at the hummingbird observatory and finca Alejandria - Km. 18.
- You will get to know the Río Blanco Natural Reserve, an iconic space for bird watching in Manizales.
- You will marvel at the Nevados National Park - Andean cloud forest and páramo.
- You will be immersed in the Andean mountains and their ecosystems.
- Every day you will be surprised by the change of thermal floors in the Andean mountains: eastern, central and western Andes.
Starting point
- Pick up at the airport
Itinerary
Día 1
ARRIVAL TO CITY OF BOGOTÁ
- Transfer from El Dorado International Airport to the hotel.
- Meeting with the leading guide of Bogotá Birding & Colombia Wildlife Tours.
- If you wish, we can visit the places of interest in Bogotá, such as the Gold Museum, Cerro Monserrate or the Candelaria neighborhood.
- Night: Hilton Hotel.
- Elevation: 8530 ft (2600 m)
- Includes: Transfer from the airport to the hotel; Dinner; Hotel accommodation.
Día 2
NEW WORLD & HUMMINGBIRD OBSERVATORY
- High Andean Cloud Forest and Hummingbird Observatory.
- This morning we will see ourselves birdwatching in the cool cloud forest in northeast Bogotá, especially targeting the Lazuline Sabrewing, The Short-tailed Emerald, The Heliodorus Hummingbird and many other species.
- In the afternoon, we'll make a stop at one of the best hummingbird feeders in all of Colombia - the Hummingbird Observatory, where we're likely to get great views of some truly amazing birds, including the Blue-throated Starfrontlet, both black-tailed carriers and Green., Glowing Puffleg, Sword-billed Hummingbird, and Copper-bellied Puffleg.
- Night: Hilton Hotel.
- Altitude: 9186 ft - 9842 ft (2800 m - 3000 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 3
FINCA COLIBRI
- We will move from Bogotá to Finca Colibrí in Fusagasugá.
- Hummingbird feeders attract magnificent species such as the lesser violet, the long-tailed sylph, the golden-winged manakin, the beryl-spangled tanager, the golden tanager, the tawny-breasted tanager, the blue-necked tanager, the Bay-headed tanager, fire-rump tanager, blue-and-black tanager, Spotted tanager, and temperate forest often have good mixed-species flocks with typical Andean birds such as tanagers, flower-borers, warblers, flycatchers and others.
- Night: Hilton Hotel.
- Elevation: 6332 ft (1930 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 4
COCK OF THE ROCK LEK
- Very early in the morning we will transfer from the hotel to the El Dorado airport to take a flight from Bogotá to Medellín.
- After, we will move through the Valle del Cauca to Jardin (small town), but first we have to make a stop at the restaurant el Rancherito to have our first time the photographic moment in the rustic feeder (Black-winged jumper, Cape Tanager black, Tanager, acorn woodpecker and emerald toucan) after lunch we continue to Jardin.
- We will take advantage of the afternoon to visit one of the most accessible lekking sites in Colombia to obtain very good quality photographs of the impressive Gallito de las Rocas de los Andes.
- Night: Hotel Hacienda Balandu (Garden).
- Elevation: 5741 ft (1750 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 5
YELLOW PARROT NATURAL RESERVE - WINDOWS
- This morning will be the highest elevation in Jardin (Natural Reserve of the Yellow-eared Parrot) where we have feeders for hummingbirds: inca colibri, colihabano or chupasavia hummingbird, tourmaline hummingbird, also known as angel gorgiturmaline, velvet hummingbird and for the season (Dusky Starfrontlet) also the local ranger has feeders for Rufous Antpitta plus around the garden you can photograph the Golden Face Whitestart.
- Then we had lunch and ended the day again at Cock of the rock lek.
- Dinner and Night at Hotel Hacienda Balandu in Jardín.
- Elevation: 5741 ft (1750 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 6
NATURAL RESERVE OF TINAMU
- We will move from Jardín this morning to the city of Manizales in the central Andes.
- From here we will travel about 5 hours to the mountains and the valley.
- Afternoon of photography in the feeders of the Hotel Tinamu (Tanager Inca, Black Throat Mango, Steely Hummingbird) and tanager feeders.
- Night: Tinamu Lodge.
- Elevation: 4101 ft (1250 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 7
RIO BLANCO NATURAL RESERVE
- We will leave early from the tinamu hotel and enjoy the Río Blanco Natural Reserve, located above the city of Manizales.
- There are over a dozen active hummingbird feeders here along a wooden balcony that is lined with flowers (long-tailed sylph, buff-tail crown, spotted hummingbird), but this place is awesome for your ANTPITTA FEEDERS. (Bronze Banded Antpitta, Antpitta bicolor, Slate Crown Antpitta, Chestnut Crowned Antpitta)
- It also has areas to perch for photography Andean Guan, Blue-winged Finch Finch, Chestnut-breasted Tanager and Slate Finch Finch. Cloudy forest.
- The most impressive and impressive place in the eastern Andes, there we have the antpitta show around the feeders: Chestnut-crowned Antpitta, Brown-banded Antpitta, Antpitta bicolor, Slate-crowned Antpitta, sometimes Chestnut-naped Antpitta Other birds also enter The antpitta feeding sites including Green and Black Fruiteater, Gray-browed Brushfinch, Great Thruhs, Rufous-collared Sparrow. Around the hummingbird feeders: long-tailed sylph, bronze and collared Inca, tourmaline solar angel, minor violet, bright violet, spotted hummingbird, bright tawny-breasted, buff-tailed crown, white-bellied wood star, racket tail with boots and sometimes hummingbird beak wegde.
- The place also has the banana feeders, which at this time come the Tangara-Montaña-Alas Azules and the Finzón-Pizarroso Finzón.
- Around the forest we can find the impressive rufous-crowned flycatcher, masked trogon, black-billed mountain toucan, golden-feathered parakeet, black-necked jay, rusty-faced parrot or Andean pygmy owl.
- Night: Tinamu Lodge.
- Elevation: 7053 ft (2150 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 8
HACIENDA EL BOSQUE AND NEVADOS DEL RUIZ NATIONAL PARK
- In the morning we will travel around 1.5 hours into the mountains above the city to a remote and beautiful cloud and elf forest.
- We will spend the morning at Hacienda el Bosque, where the main attraction is the feeding station that has been installed here to see the incredible Antpitta with a half moon face. Sometimes to offer good possibilities the photo Gray-breasted mountain toucan.
- Then after lunch, we will go to the Hot Springs Hotel in search of new species of hummingbird and tanager: Nearly endemic Black Thigh Puffleg, Rainbow Bearded Puffleg, Viridian Metaltail Pufflegs, Glowing and Gold-breasted Pufflegs, Great Sapphirewing also has feeders for Lacrimose and Scarlet- Pale-bellied Mountain Tanagers, Pale-naped and Gray-browed Brush Finches, Bright Flower Finch, and BUFFY HELMETCREST, a stunning endemic hummingbird, can often be photographed on perches or while feeding on Espeletia flowers near the top of the mountains (without reaching the feeders)).
- Other targets here are Tawny Antpitta, Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Sedge Wren, Andean Tit-Spinetail, White-Chinned Thistletail, Andean Siskin, and Plane Naped Brush Finch.
- Night: Hotel Termales del Ruiz.
- Altitude: 13,123 ft (4000 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 9
TERMALES DEL RUIZ AND NEVADOS NATIONAL PARK
- This morning will be the highest elevation in Nevados National Park to see the endemic Buffy Helmetcrest, an impressive hummingbird, which can often be photographed on perches or while feeding on Espeletia flowers.
- Other changes (without feeders) such as Tawny Antpitta, Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Sedge Wren, Andean Tit-Spinetail, White-Chinned Thistletail, and Andino Siskin.
- The landscape is also impressive with fast grasslands.
- Then in the afternoon again the feeders of the Thermal Hotel.
- Dinner and night at Hotel Termales del Ruiz.
- Altitude: 13,123 ft (4000 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 10
NEVADOS A CALI NATIONAL PARK
- Morning photographic time around the feeders, then we will transfer from the Termales Hotel to the city of Cali in the western Andes.
- From here we will travel approximately 5 1/2 hours towards the mountains and the valley.
- Arrival to the city of Cali.
- Night: Araucana Lodge.
- Elevation: 3339 ft (1018 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 11
FINCA ALEJANDRIA - Km. 18
- Finca Alejandria is much warmer in the afternoon and cooler in the morning.
- It has quite a different set of species to photograph. There will be options around the feeders for endemic multi-colored Tanager and adorable hums like the Booted Racket Tail, Blue Headed Sapphire, Purple Throated Woodstart, and Bronzy Inca.
- Also to the tanagers such as: golden-naped tanager, golden tanager, saffron-crowned tanager, rump tanager, bush tanager and green nuthatch, also the chachalaca and tucanet.
- The forest itself also offers excellent bird watching, with species like the Ornate Hawk-Eagle and Golden-head Quetzal always a possibility. Full day at the Finca.
- Night: Araucana Lodge.
- Elevation: 3339 ft (1018 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 12
LA MINGA ECOLODGE, FINCA EL BOSQUE DE LAS AVES & CHICORAL
- Another area of bird photography is the main draw here, its magnificent garden with numerous feeders, a covered area and plenty of space for multi-flash setups: Multi-colored Tanager, Crimson Rump Tucanet, Red-haired Barbet, and Black-capped Tanager are all regular visitors. of bananas, plus various euphonias.
- As for hummingbirds; Green Hawthorn Tail, Western Emerald, and Purple Throat Wood Star.
- Night: Araucana Lodge.
- Elevation: 3339 ft (1018 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 13
FINCA EL DESCANDO - DOÑA DORA
- The Anchicaya area became popular with Colombian bird watchers long before it was recognized as the place to find the rare bearded toucan.
- This morning we will start early, we will photograph a small and basic feeding station of our lodgings that is little known in bird watching circles. (aka Dona Dora for the lovely lady who owns her) has become known as a bird's paradise, Dora's feeders attract rarities such as the Chocó finch, the bearded toucan, the golden-necked honey nuthatch, Yellow-necked Chlorophony and Occasionally Moss-backed Tanager When the Ficus tree is in fruit season, it's a remarkable sight, as the tropical rarities practically line up to feed.
- Full day at Dora's house and around the forest.
- Night: Araucana Lodge.
- Elevation: 3339 ft (1018 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 14
CALI TO THE CITY OF BOGOTÁ
- We will return to the Cali airport in the middle of the afternoon to take an internal flight to Bogotá, where the tour will conclude for some, while everyone else can wait for our extension of the Orinoquia.
- Delicious final dinner and end of the incredible bird watching and nature trip.
- Night: Hilton Hotel.
- Elevation: 3339 ft (1018 m)
- Includes: Private transportation; all the foods; hotel accommodation.
Día 15
BOGOTA
- International flight back home.
- Participants will be transferred to El Dorado International Airport to take their international flight or connections in Colombia.
- Elevation: 8530 ft (2600 m)
- Includes: Breakfast; transportation to the airport.
- Finished the awesome iridescent photography and bird watching tour with us!
Include
TRANSPORT
- Private transportation 4 × 4 and Jeeps; flight: Cali to the city of Bogotá; private transfer airport - hotel - airport
- All food: breakfast, lunch and dinner in all places with open menu in restaurants
- 2 daily snacks that include a bottle of water, fruit, hot drinks (Water available all the time on the bus - large bottle to refill drinking water bottles)
- Vegan and vegetarian menus
ACCOMMODATION
- All hotels described in the itinerary (14 nights) Eco-lodges within the Nature Reserves Towel and bedding in all places.
- Tickets to national parks and reserves.
- Local guides, drivers and cooks.
- The group will be accompanied by a professional guide at all times
- Experienced cooks in all reservations, lodges and hotels.
Not included
- International flights and taxes
- Toiletries and personal items
- Laundry service
- Room service
- Tips or gratuity
- Medical expenses
- Sure
- International or local phone calls
- Alcoholic drinks
- Activities not included in the itinerary
- Extensions of a trip due to circumstances beyond our control.
Activities
- Bird watching (incluida)
- Flora, wildlife observation (incluida)
- Off road 4x4 (incluida)
- Guided visits (incluida)
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Travel & Explore Colombia
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Cancellations policy
FREE cancellation as long as the guest cancels at least 7 days before the tripSimilar tours
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