Monteverde Night Walk: A Unique Encounter with Nocturnal Tropical Wildlife
4.7
305 Ratings
Monteverde
Embark on a Monteverde Night Walk and experience the thrill of encountering the nocturnal tropical wildlife. Explore the jungle at night and spot fascinating creatures like sloths, frogs, vipers, and more!
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Monteverde Wildlife Refuge - Refugio de Vida silvestre is a small local reserve with special trails perfect watch the local tropical wildlife like Rain frogs, sleeping toucans, Sloth, kinkajus, Bats and more
What's Included
- Transportation included
- Optical gear provided
- Rechargeable flashlight provided
- Local taxes covered
- Species ID field guides available
What's Not Included
- Entrance fee of Refuguio de Vida Silvestre $13pp Cash or card
- Transportation extra$8pp
Additional Information
The Rain Forest Night Walk provide you a fantastic chance to enjoy a
nocturnal tropical forest experience, the night time is special time to explore the jungle. Scientists suggest that 80 percent of tropical wildlife is active at night as they take refuge in the dark to avoid potential predators.
This activity is a nice opportunity to explore a natural tropical forest with the company of an expert naturalist guide in local wildlife who will share natural history data with scientific data of the area and this unique natural ecosystem in the world.
We provide flash lights for the two hours Walk serching for local wild life.
We use professional optic gear to be able to observe with details the amazing tropical forest residents
This tour provide a good chance to watch animals like,
Two-toed Sloth
Red-eye frog
Side-striped Palm-pit viper
Orange kneed Tarantulas
Kinkajus
Nine-banded Armadillo
Bats
Bio-luminescen mushroom
Anoles
Olingo
Mottled Owl
Sleeping Monkey
and more
Location
Wildlife Refuge Monteverde
Calle Los Camachos
Drive to Cañitas in the 606 nort 1K out of the town to Refugio de vida silvestre in calle Camachos or add in your GPS 85HC+FV Monterverde de Puntarenas when ou are there please ask for Johnny Villegas in the front desk of Refugio de Vida Silvestre
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(305 Ratings)
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Changha0z
Mar 23, 2024
Great experience - Awesome experience with our guide Rob. We saw a bunch of animals like Toucan, two toed sloth and green viper snake. I highly recommend it.
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Kimber_s
Mar 23, 2024
Fun and interesting, great guide - Our guide Raphael was great. He was knowledgeable and could find all kinds of animals we would never have seen on our own.
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Maria_m
Mar 16, 2024
Johnny was a wonderful guide - Johnny was such a wonderful guide. He is so knowledgeable & charismatic. On my trip, we saw a few snakes, two tiny frogs, some super cool bugs, a tarantula, & a kinkajou. Kind of sad we didn’t see any sloths but nature is just unpredictable like that. Also just to clarify, the price that you pay is for the guide, not to enter the park. That is an additional $13 that you pay when you arrive. Getting a guide was so worth it though because we would not have been able to spot any of what we did without him.
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Shastatravels
Mar 13, 2024
Best night tour ever! - Johnny was our guide and we enjoyed every minute - we saw a variety of spiders - frogs - birds - bugs- snakes and we tried for a sloth but it was hiding - it was awesome and I would totally do it again!!
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Daniela_p
Mar 12, 2024
Great night tour experience in the forest - This was an amazing night tour! We really enjoyed this experience and we saw so many different animals. We particularly enjoyed seeing sloths, toucans, scorpions, armadillo, red eye frog, porcupine, green pit viper, kinkajou and olingo. I guess we were unlucky with the night of the tour, as it was quite crowded. But our guide assured us that this was an exception.
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T9892pljohnm
Mar 12, 2024
Johnny was a fantastic guide and his tour was the highlight of our trip! - Johnny was a fantastic guide, with a great sense of humour. We enjoyed both his jokes and excellent knowledge of the animals we were viewing. He took the time to be patient with the younger children in our group; ensuring their experience was as great as ours. He worked hard to find the sloths, snakes and spiders; that our group was most interested in viewing. So far, it’s been the highlight of our trip!
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Kimberly_l
Mar 4, 2024
Nashvillian’s take on Costa Rica - Johnny was a great guide. We had a private tour where we saw frogs, tarantula, viper and a sloth. I loved Johnny’s energy and enthusiasm for nature.
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Geoffreymg101ku
Apr 23, 2024
Night walk and in the forest - We did the 2hours night tour with Johnny and it was super nice !
We saw a variety of birds, insects and reptiles !
Being in the forest during night time is an also quite an experience.
I’d recommend if you are around
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Katja_w
Mar 9, 2024
Nice tour - First of all, for whatever reason our guide did not show up that day, but the nice people organizing the tour were able to fit us in with another group, so props to them.
Nice tour, we were able to see a few birds, a sloth, a viper, tarantulas and a few insects. Except for the insects though we were able to see those animals much better during a bird watching tour we did the day previously. So while this was a nice tour, if you want to save some money, just do bird watching during the day instead.
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Sathish_a
Mar 28, 2024
Avoid this Fake experience - The entire thing was fake. The only moving animal during the entire walk was a sloth. The guide would just stop and start his scope and he would then show us an animal. There was no rhyme or reason as to how he found an animal at that place. Looking at the previous reviews revealed that they were showing all of us the same animals - sloth, red eyed frog, tarantula. Avoid this scam. We also did not like the fact that the guide kept the lights ON the sloth all the time.
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