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Embark on the Quality Trail guided night tour, an easy one-mile walk through Monteverde's unique cloud forest at 1,350 meters. This 2-hour experience offers a rare chance to observe nocturnal, endangered, and endemic species from both North and South America in their natural habitat. The tour includes transportation, park entrance, and a naturalist guide, promising a magical exploration of the forest's active nightlife. It's an opportunity to discover animals foraging or resting, making for an unforgettable natural encounter.
This magical guided hike into the Monteverde Wildlife Refuge is sure to bring a thrill when you suddenly discover the world of nocturnal nightlife. This is a one mile hike along an easy trail to observe the active wildlife in the unique cloud forest environment. Your knowledgeable local guide will take you to the places with the most recent animal sightings.
The tour will begin when you are picked up from your lodging in the Monteverde area by the provided transportation and brought to the cloud forest park. Equipped with headlamp, binoculars and flashlights, your guide will lead you into the ancient woodlands of towering trees to explore what might be lurking there.
Because animals who live in the forest are more active at night this is a perfect opportunity to find them foraging for food or dancing under the moonlight! Together you and your guide will silently seek a variety of wildlife including insects, birds, reptiles, spiders, sleeping birds, interesting frogs and mammals.
You may encounter the glowing eyes of a spider reflecting the light of a flashlight. Or one of Monteverde’s 71 species of snakes. Typically it is easy to find a bird sleeping up in the branches with its head tucked under its wing. Undisturbed by the light, sleeping birds are stationary giving you a chance to observe the identifying markings and colors on their wings.
Of course you’ll want to find a furry friend of some sort. Sloths, notoriously slow and irresistibly cute, lumber limb by limb through their home in the tree tops feasting on leaves. Other possible animal sightings include coatimundis and kinkajous. On rare occasions one of the six species of jungle cats has been spotted at night.
Every hike creates a brand new list of sightings. There are no guarantees you will see a particular species of wildlife, but you will see a variety of wildlife that is available on the particular night you are out observing. Be sure to bring your camera. Just being outdoors deep in the tropical cloud forest cover at night is an amazing experience.
When the approximately two hour hike ends, you’ll be brought back to your lodging where you began. This tour includes transportation, park entrance, and naturalist guide.
Available in: Monteverde
Tour space is generally available when requested more than two days in advance and remains subject to confirmation.
Latitude: N 10° 18' 50.39" (10.313998)
Longitude: W 84° 49' 38.83" (-84.827454)
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Before you go
The Quality Trail Night Tour includes round-trip transportation from your Monteverde lodging, park entrance fees, and the expertise of a naturalist guide.
During the night tour, you may encounter a variety of nocturnal wildlife such as insects, birds (including sleeping ones), reptiles, spiders, frogs, sloths, coatimundis, and kinkajous. Rare sightings of jungle cats are also possible.
For the Quality Trail Night Tour, it is recommended to bring insect repellent, a camera, closed-toed shoes, and rain gear.
The Quality Trail Night Tour is approximately two hours long and takes place in the Monteverde Wildlife Refuge, an easy one-mile trail through a cloud forest at an elevation of 1,350 meters.
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