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Night Walk Tour Monteverde: An Unforgettable Encounter with Nocturnal Wildlife
4.9
35 Ratings
Monteverde
Embark on a 2-hour night walk tour in Monteverde to encounter nocturnal wildlife. See sloths, armadillos, porcupines, and more. Limited spots available, reserve in advance!
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Monteverde Wildlife Refuge - This small reserve is a conservation effort of a local family, where ecotourism activity is conducted through night walks where we can observe a large amount of wildlife in each visit.
What's Included
- Flash lights
- Optic gear
- Naturalist tour guide
What's Not Included
- entrance fee to Refugio de vida silvestre $13pp
- Transportations
Additional Information
The Night Tour Refuge is a 2-hour light stroll designed for night dwelling animals’ enthusiasts. It’s an excellent opportunity to spot wildlife like sloths, armadillos, porcupines, opossums, coatis, olingos, kinkajous among others, including nocturnal birds and an assorted range of insects.
El Refugio provides an ideal birdwatching spot with species like resting toucans, mot-mots, and black guans available, alongside treetop dwellers like monkeys, coatis, olingos, sloths, frogs, snakes, and a myriad of insects. A typical tour allows you to witness 3-5 kinds of mammals, 5–10 bird species, a few snakes or frogs, and countless insects, offering the largest variety of animals distinguishable in any night tour around the locale.
The tour comprises a group of four to six individuals guided by a local tour leader who will provide an orientation and flashlights before embarking on the stroll through El Refugio’s tracks. Limited slots are available, thus prior booking is advisable.
Location
Wildlife Refuge Monteverde
Calle Los Camachos
we meet up on the front desk of the Refugio de Vida Silvestre
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(35 Ratings)
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Koriw678
Jul 27, 2024
Excellent educational night hike - Our guide was wonderful! His enthusiasm for every animal, plant, and insect we found was contagious. The guide was so knowledgeable and took time to explain how each member of the environment works to keep the rainforest healthy. We had a lot of fun and learned so much!
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E7257celucaa
Jul 2, 2024
Monteverde Night Walk - The night-tour we booked was fantastic. We saw a lot of awesome animals and took great pictures. Deyber was a great guide, who knew a lot and we had a lot of fun and a good laugh. I would really recommend him. Muchas gracias
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Daniel_o
Apr 27, 2024
Lots of wildlife! - Our guide, Chris, was great, finding lots of animals that we would never have found. We saw a viper, tarantula, sloth, kinkajou, porcupine, owl, hummingbird, and a stick bug on this great tour! Chris gave us great info about all the animals as well.
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Susanny9801nl
Apr 7, 2024
Best guided tour in Costa Rica - José, our guide, was AMAZING. Both my kids are very knowledgeable about insects and José focused really hard on helping them find the creatures they had hoped to see. Jose is a very knowledgeable guide who clearly loves his job and all the creatures in the forest. My kids said afterwards how nice it was to be able to talk to a guide who was really interested in talking to them and knew what he was talking about and could actually add to their existing knowledge instead of only telling them things they already knew. Best guided tour we did in Costa Rica. It was an easy hike at a good pace. Also Jose let us put our camera on his scope so we got amazing close up pictures of the creatures that we saw ( which included monkeys, sleeping hummingbirds, tarantula, frogs, insects). Highly recommend and ask for Jose😊
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Sting_s
Mar 23, 2024
Most memorable experience! - Great tour guide and he is very knowledgeable about all kinds of wildlife related stuff in the cloud forest from plants to mammals. I was amazed by how many wildlife we observed during our tour, even a monkey! He is very professional and good at helping us taking pictures. The most memorable experience in Costa Rica! Love it!
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Nadinebp1968sd
Feb 6, 2024
Great Nightwalk tour - I did a morning tour with guide Derbey in Monteverde cloud forest and the Nightwalk tour. It was really good. Our guide shows us a lot of animals and his knowledge about the animals is amazing! 100% recommend . It is very special to see animals in the dark
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372loiss
Feb 6, 2024
Fantastic experience - Deyber knows a lot about all the animals we saw! He is enthusiastic, kind, an amazing guide! Definitely recommend 10/10
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Mobile591035
Jan 27, 2024
Worth it! - Deyber is a great guide, very knowledgeable, remarkably observant and funny. We went with him on a morning tour and enjoyed learning from him so much that we decided to check out this night walk with him too!
He showed us what signs to look for to find various animals and how to identify them (and avoid some). He set some helpful expectations and we were rewarded with some great sightings. He’s also impressively quick at setting up his binoculars for the best views of anything we spotted. We saw so much wildlife- mot mot, woodpeckers, vipers, sleeping hummingbirds, toucans, salamanders, leaf-cutter ants and even a sighting of a sloth! We really enjoyed our night walk tour.
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Melmandoo
Jan 27, 2024
Double tour experience 👏👏 - Deyber was an excellent guide. Very knowledgeable about Costa Rican wildlife and appreciated his kindness and humor throughout the tour. We actually booked the night tour with him after enjoying his day tour so much at the Monteverde cloud forest.
For the night tour you are equipped with a flashlight. I’d wear comfy closed toed walking shoes (because you’ll be walking a short uphill and there were sometimes lines of ants present). Also to catch certain animals you’ll need to walk quickly.
Be sure to join him on his other tours ! I will recommend him for future Monteverde visitors :)
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613estherw
Jan 23, 2024
Best nightwalk so far! - Amazing tour, great guide. Deyber makes you feel comfortable, keeps the group together and at the same time is very fanatically looking for everything that lives in the forest. And he can make the best pictures through his telescope ;)
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