ALTA FLORESTA, BRAZIL

$3675 (includes flights Cuiabá to Alta Floresta and return; 2008 fee). 12 days
From Cuiaba. Limit: 8
Good accommodations, easy terrain (one moderate climb to an overlook), warm to cool climate. May be combined with SERRA DOS TUCANOS, BRAZIL. Our staff travel agents can book your air travel for this tour. Contact us at (800) 728-4953 for more information.

See our triplist for October 2007 or 2005 or 2004.

Ornate Hawk-Eagle from our 2004 tour by guide Bret Whitney

Over the years, some of the features of birding tours that clients have told us they enjoy most include staying for several days in a single place rich in birds and other wildlife; spending most of the day on foot instead of in vehicles; time to learn about the natural history and behavior of the birds they see; having regular afternoon periods for rest, a dip in the pool, or birding a little on their own; and (often mentioned last but almost never forgotten) great food.  Your Field Guides leader likes all these things, too; but it is relatively rare that a tour destination, especially a tropical one, provides the special setting required for the ultimate combination of activities. 

Hours after arrival at Alta Floresta and the Cristalino Jungle Lodge, you will know that you have landed in a different world.  Having unpacked, your clothes and books in handy places all over the room, you will still be deliriously happy because you’ve got six full days and nights ahead of you here with nothing to do but bird, eat, and sleep!  And this is our tour that spends the greatest amount of time at the lodge.  By staying longer at this popular lodge, in order to provide fuller coverage of this one extremely rich site, we’ll have more opportunities to find those seldom encountered species (some of which don’t begin to sing until the rainy season starts in September), those unpredictable antswarms, those elusive trumpeters, and those pesky Snow-capped Manakins, as well as to take full advantage of the new 50-meter tower!  While our June tour offers greater variety by including the Pantanal, this tour offers more in-depth coverage by focusing in on forest species, while based in the premier lodge in southern Amazonia.  If you’ve been daydreaming about Kawall’s Parrot, Tooth-billed Wren, or Cryptic Forest-Falcon, this is the place to realize that dream.

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