Birdwatching Tour in the Cloud Forest Curi-Cancha in Santa Elena, Costa Rica

The Curi Cancha Sanctuary is a private reserve in central Costa Rica that protects the cloud forest in the Cordillera de Tilaran near Juntas.

Highlights:

• Admire the biodiversity of the high mountain forests

• Observe the Resplendent Quetzal

• A great variety of Hummingbirds

• Native orchids
  

Includes:

• A field guide to identify species

• A spotting scope

• A binocular

Not included: 

• Tickets to Curi Cancha Reserve

• Transportation

Please note: minimum age of passengers is 6 years old, there is an opportunity to take the tour in a special electric cart for people with walking problems, with an extra cost of $60.

The entrance to the refuge is about one kilometer from the famous Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. The lower part is drier, with few epiphytes, but the upper part is a cloud forest. Although the forest is not as clear as Monteverde, the most beautiful birds are much easier to see. The refuge is especially good for the magnificent quetzal, the most popular. After the cloud forest birds, the Sanctuary is also a good place to find the killdeer toucan, the lesser moth, the orange-bellied trogon and the three-toed sloth, as well as monkeys.