SECOND DAY
6:00 am - Breakfast in your hotel
6:30 am - A visit to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve for a hike where the Resplendant Quetzal bird can be seen. After hiking, lunch at a restaurant in town. The Monteverde area in Costa Rica is world famous for its cloud forest. There are now two reserves, the original Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve and the new Santa Elena Rain Forest. In these forests you can enjoy the cloud forest climate and hike the trails among varieties of plants and magnificent epiphyte ladened trees. There have been over 450 bird species seen in the Monteverde area. The native birds are joined at certain time of the year by those which migrate through from North America. The resplendent quetzals with their long tails feed at various locations in the area and one can at times hear the "bong" of the bell birds. These areas sit astride the continental divide at an altitude a bit above 5000 feet.
1:00 pm - Lunch in the hotel or a box lunch in the reserve, as you please.
2:00 pm - Return to San Jose
It is recommended that you bring: a camera, binoculars, insect repellent, sun screen, rain cape and comfortable walking clothes.