BIRDING ROUTE COLOMBIAN AMAZONAS
Tour for 6 Confirmed people
Colombia 2020
All inclusive Colombia, full meals, transportation, Local flights, hotels, tickets to reservations and local guides.
Maximum group size 8 People, maintaining the standards established by good practices for National Government Avitourism.
The Amazon of Colombia is part of the lungs of the earth, this is one of the most biodiverse areas of the country, rich in flora and fauna, Place of large trees, rivers, monkeys, dolphins and of course great diversity of birds, People who visit this region of Colombia have unforgettable memories, because the landscapes of the Amazon become postcards full of life that amaze anyone: thick jungles, wild animals, ancestral cultures and much more; With 97 m.a.s.l ( 310 feet tall approximately ) and flooded lands many of its routes are made in small islands.
Note: Please note that it may take 30 minutes to an hour to migrate, if you want to change dollars, this must be done at the airport upon arrival. ATMs are perhaps the easiest place to get Colombian pesos.
List of Hotels used in the itinerary:
1 Night Hotel Macao Bogotá or similar.
1 Night Marasha Perú.
3 Night Hotel Waira Leticia.
2 Nigths Hotel Waira Selva.
The price includes:
- Private transport services from Dotado International Airport and to Amazonas and during the entire tour, in good, modern air-conditioned vehicles, and where required boats.
- Accommodation in double accommodation in hotels and reserves as shown in the plan, with rooms with private bathroom.
- All meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and two snacks per day, drinks in the car that include water, juice and one alcoholic beverage per day.
- Tickets on all reserves and natural parks.
- Guides in birdwatching, bilingual, professional translator will feature in some cases.
- Medical assistance insurance.
Destination
Departure
Bogota - LeticiaIncluded
Complete feedingEntrance to natural reservesGuide ServiceHotelMedical Assistance InsuranceTaxesTransportNot Included
Calls abroadLaundryTips | Personal expenses
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Day 0: Transfer from Dorado International Airport (airport code BOG) to Hotel Macao
Hotel Macao https://hotelmacaocolombia.com-bogota.com/ This will be the day of his arrival in Colombia, will be picked up at Dorado International airport in Bogotá, whatever your time of arrival check in at hotel will be after 3 pm; this day will be used so you rest and adapt to the height of the city 2600 m.s.a.l ( 8530 FT); together with the leading guide will revise Check List and the itinerary of the trip, coexistence agreements and recommendations will be made, all doubts will be resolved on this day. On the day of arrival we can take a tour of the city and get to know Bogotá a bit.
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Day 1: Arrival.
This will be the first day of the tour, will be the day that arrives in the city of Leticia, is a Colombian municipality located in the Amazonas of Colombia, which is called the lung of the world, for its great jungle extension . It is the capital of the Amazonas state 11:00-11:30 a.m. Transfer from Leticia airport to Waira Hotel 2:00 pm. Check in Waira Hotel Leticia 12:30 -1:30 p.m. Lunch Afternoon: socialization of the Amazonas Birding program whit local guide and then we will move to the Amazon River where we'll have the first encounter with bird especies of this place; then we will go to the central park where you can see the natural spectacle of thousands of parakeets, then return to the hotel and dinner. Possible species: Orange Headed Tanager-Orange Breasted Falcon, Black caracará, Silver-beaked Tanager, Thrush-like Wren, White- winged Parakeet, White-eyed Parakeet, Black Capped Donacobius, Spotted tody-flycatcher, Red-capped cardinal, Large-billed tern. Night Waira Hotel https://wairahotel.com.co/
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Day 2: Full day at Marsha reserve.
Overnight at Waira Hotel. Meals Included: Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner. On the morning of the secon day, we are going to go to the Marsha reserve in Peru 40 minutes down the Amazon River, The tour to the reserve will be made by boat where we will go by the lake and the forest trails flooded this season, we'll observe species birds like Horned Screamer, Hoatzin, Jacamar, Antbirds, Toucans, among other, and all the fauna associated with the reserve of monkeys and lazy bears, there you can stay in houses in trees or houses on the river. Night Marsha Reserv
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Day 3:
We will continue bird watching until at 3: pm then we will return to leticia and return to the hotel for dinner. Night Waira Hotel
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Day 4: Pto Nariño.
Overnight at Waira Hotel Pto Nariño. Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch-Dinner. In the morning of the third day we are going to move the Pto Nariño. We will take commercial boat from Leticia bound for Pto Nariño, the tour will be along the Amazon River, we're going to make a stop on the comunity Mocawa and Fundation Maikuchiga is a primate rehabilitation center seized from illegal traffic or voluntarily delivered, which protects the Churuco monkey is on the red list of critically endangered species, in addition, we will be able to see bird species such as Speckled Chachalaca, Russet-backed Oropendola, Dusky-headed Parakeet, Chestnut-fronted Macaw, Black-fronted Nunbird, among others; then we will arrive at the hotel in Pto Nariño (Waira), we will take Dinner. Night Waira Selva Hotel
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Day 5: Wochine reserve.
Overnight at Waira Hotel Pto Nariño. Meals Included: Breakfast-Lunch, Dinner. At the first hour begins our journey through the urban area of Puerto Nariño in order to appreciate a variety of Birds as Black-necked Red-Cotinga, Amazonian Umbrellabird, Bare-necked Fruitcrow, Maroon-tailed Parakeet, are Plum-throated cotinga, Bare Necked Fruitcrow, Yellow Bellied Dacnis, Scarlet Crowned Barbet, Tui Parakeet , Varzea Thrush, Turquoise Tanager, Caqueta Seedeater among others, then we will go to the Wochine Reserve 40 min from the urban area by a path on the mainland where it waits for observation Purplethroated Euphonia, Thick-billed Euphonia, Rufous-bellied Euphonia, Masked Crimson Tanager, Opalrumped Tanager, Green-and-gold Tanager, Gould's Jewelfront, Fork-tailed Woodnymph, Lettered Aracari, Striolated Manakin, in total more than 80 species associated with this project of conservation of the flora and fauna representative of the Amazon, after the long morning return to Puerto Nariño, lunch and recess; over the course of the afternoon you will take a boat to enjoy the bird attached to the flooded forests diverse habitat to know birds associated with this ecosystem such as White-eared Jacamar, Yellow-billed Jacamar, Bluish-fronted Jacamar, Paradise Jacamar, Black-tailed Leaftosser, Short-billed Leaftosser, Amazonian Barred-Woodcreeper, Ocellated Woodcreeper, Long-billed Woodcreeper, Duida Woodcreeper, Point-tailed Palmcreeper, Buffthroated Woodcreeper, Gray-bellied Hawk, Slate-colored Hawk, Pearly Antshrike, Whiteshouldered Antshrike, Spot-winged Antshrike, Amazonian Streaked-Antwren among others. Night Waira Selva Hotel
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Day 6: Macao Island.
Meals Included: Meals Included: Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner. Birding Isla Macao Rio Amazonas, Isla cacao is 25 minutes from Pto Nariño by the Amazon river in order to observe Dark Breasted, Spinetail-Orange, Backed Troupial-Slate, Coloured Hawk-Great, Potoo-Castelnaus, Antshrike-Black and White Antbird- Wire Tailed- Manakin; at noon returned Pto Nariño, we'lltakelunch; in afternoon hours Birding down the Loretoyacu river in order to observe Brown Jacamar, White-chinned Jacamar, Yellow-tufted Woodpecker, Little Woodpecker, Redstained Woodpecker, Yellow-throated Woodpecker, Ringed Woodpecker, Scale-breasted Woodpecker, Black Bushbird, Cinereous Antshrike, Dusky-throated Antshrike, at the end of the afternoon, around the hotel and dinner.
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Day 7: Tarapoto Lagoon.
Meals Included: Meals Included: Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner. Birding Laguna Tarapoto, early in the morning we will go by boat to the resorts lagunares Tarapoto in order to observe Long Billed Woodcreeper, Amazonian Streaked, Antbird-Leaden Antbird-Zimmer’s, Woodcreeper-Cream Coloured Woodpecker-Parker’s Spinetail. At noon we return to Pto Nariño,we take lunch and then we will move to Leticia. Night Waira Hotel
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Day 8: Morning in and around Leticia.
Morning in and around Leticia, shopping in Tabatinga Brazil; return to the airport and end of service. 10:30 a.m. Departure to Leticia Airport. Arrival at the airport international El Dorado in the afternoon Flight to Home.
A wonder of birds await you
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