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Monteverde Night Walk: A Unique Encounter with Nocturnal Tropical Wildlife
4.7
313 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
- Optic gear
- Rechargeable battery flashlight
- Local taxes
- Species ID field guides
What's Not Included
- Entrance fee of Refuguio de Vida Silvestre $13pp Cash or card
- Transportation $10pp extra
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
(313 Ratings)
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Michael_j
Aug 18, 2024
Fun night tour - The night walk is a great tour and introduction to the wildlife in the cloud forest. Our tour guide Raul showed his passion for nature and had a great eye for detecting even the smallest creatures. The grounds are large enough that you never felt crowded by other visitors. The tour never felt rushed and is a great way to see wildlife from a close but safe distance.
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Ayshead2021
Jul 14, 2024
10/10 experience - Our guide was named Raoul and we did this activity on July 14th, it was an amazing experience. Our guide was very informative and enthusiastic to show us the wildlife. Everybody in the group was very polite and excited to be there - we are so glad we got such a great group to go with!!
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Vivian_y
Jun 23, 2024
Johnny was the best! Awesome animals & photos - Awesome night tour with our guide Johnny! Johnny was so friendly and funny, and was the absolute best at spotting interesting bugs/animals. We saw nearly everything we had wanted to see - frogs, vipers, even a Tucan! He was also so good at taking photos for us!
We unfortunately did not see a sloth that evening but Johnny searched very hard to find one for us, very much appreciated the effort (it does seem common that you could see a sloth though, Johnny mentioned he usually sees one 2-3 times a week).
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Bkchang1
May 7, 2024
Stunning! - We had an incredible time! This was a big highlight of the trip. Felt very safe and saw a huge variety of creatures. Can’t miss!
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453nataschak
May 6, 2024
Just go, you will not regret! - This tour was pretty awesome, Johny knew all about the animals, plants and explained so in a funny way. We saw so many animals, he could even point out the smallest animal with ease. I could recommend 10 times over, look no further!
Greatings from the two playos, and if you read this thanks for the advice against sunburn at the beach :))
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Trina_k
May 6, 2024
Best tour guide and tour in Monteverde! - Johnny was the absolute best tour guide - super knowledgeable and thoughtful of our surroundings and our group. He came in advance to scout some of the animals so we were able to see all the animals we wanted to see, including snakes, a sleeping toucan, and even a sloth and her cub. He also gave us a brief moment in an open field to do some star gazing, and we were lucky enough to see a couple falling stars. Absolutely one of the best tours we took in Costa Rica and would highly recommend to everyone!!
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Pipilongsock
May 3, 2024
Best guide! - Johnny was an amazing guide. He found a lot of animals on our tour and explained everything very well. We enjoyed the walk very much. We saw a sleeping hummingbird, toucan, vipers, sloth, tarantula, a cool unicorn grasshopper, and so much more!
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Imanj395
Jul 3, 2024
Unique experience - This tour was unique and by it's very nature is a tough to deliver. Our guide did a good job and was actively looking for things to show us. We saw sleeping birds (tucans ), frogs, snakes, and bioluminescent fungi among other things. Over all was a unique experience. My main take away was that I'd never go into the jungle alone at night.
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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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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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