Birdwatching Tour in the Cloud Forest hanging Selvatura
Monteverde, Costa Rica
- 4 hours (approx.)
- Group discounts
- Offered in: English
Overview
Situated atop the Continental Divide, the high-altitude Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve is literally shrouded in clouds. Experience the full breadth of Monteverde’s flora and fauna on this nature walk through Selvatura Adventure Park, during which your naturalist guide provides useful insight and helps navigate through the forest.
- Explore Monteverde Cloud Forest and learn about its complex ecosystems
- Naturalist guide provides commentary and navigates through the reserve
- See species such as howler monkeys, sloths, and toucans
- Optical gear is provided so you can easily spot wildlife
What's Included
- Local taxes
- Optic Gear
- Selvatura hangin bridges entrance fee$56.00 per booking
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Selvatura Adventure ParkContiguo a reserva, Provincia de Puntarenas, Santa Elena, 60109, Costa Rica
You meet up with your guided tour in the Selvatura Park front desksss
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Operating hours.6:30 am
Ticket Redemption Point
762Q8633+3F8, 8633+3F8 Puntarenas Province, Monteverde, Costa Rica
Itinerary
1
Selvatura Park
4 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
4.0
based on 44 reviews
Caleb_H, Aug 2024
Great tour. Didn't actually see a ton of wildlife but the guide knew about it all. Probably spent too much time talking about the creatures and not enough time looking for them. He is always ready to please tho. When he realized we wanted to see quetzals, he immediately offered to take us over to curi cancha park after the regular tour. We jumped in his van and he ran us over there where we saw several quetzals along with other wildlife. It was awesome.
Response from Host, Aug 2024
Hola, Pura vida
Harry_B, Apr 2024
The first recommendation i will make is not to use Jonny loves Nature tour. I discovered that Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has their own private bird tour. Their price is also $90. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve includes a free breakfast valued at $12.00+ per person , free admission into the park valued at $26, and the tour lasts for 5 hours. Johnny loves nature tour charges $90. There is no breakfast , your tour lasts 2 to 3 hours, and the $26 admission into the park is not included. This is fact!! So I suggest all of the people interested in the bird watching tours go thogh the Monteverde Cloud Forest website. As far as Jonny loves nature we arrived at the Monteverde Park entrance at 6.30. No one was there to met us. The tour itself started at 7 am. Please note. The park opens at 7am and there is no internet prior to that time. There was other tour groups waiting to start thieir tour. We walked up to one of them and the tour guided asked for our bar codes for the tour. Since it was before 7am the park was not open and there was no internet. We were confused with the process because know one tour group had signs to identify which tour group was which. About 10 minutes of 7 am we left with the other tour group on their tour. Apparently, Jonny claimed that he arrived at 6.50 for his tour that started at 7pm. Personally I felt he should have arrived earlier that 10 minutes before the tour with a sign. He did try to call me at 7.07 to ask where we were but inside the park there was not internet. We ended up paying for two tours. One with Jonny the other with Monteverde park system. By the time of the first break for breakfast at the park i was able to communicate with Jonny. (Please note durnig the breakfast break Jonny's tour was over., and the tour we were on had another 3 hours) He claimed that it was my fault I left with another tour group. And my payment to him was lost. The bright spot i can help othere looking for bird tours at the Monteverde Cloud Forest
Response from Host, Apr 2024
Thank you very much Mr. Harry! You are absolutely right, dear client. To avoid misunderstandings we process the refund of the money and you always only treated me badly and threatened me in many ways which was completely unnecessary, when I only explained to you that the meeting time is at 7am in order to pay for the tickets to the Forest Reserve Cloudy and at 7:00am is when the office opens its doors. This same office is the meeting point and not in the Colibris gallery, which is where you told me you found the other guide. Interesting that you booked a private tour and joined a tour with more people in the group and two months before the travel date you began to ask me if the tour was private, which you were informed that if indeed it would be a tour privately, I ask myself the same thing at least 10 times and it is no problem, we will gladly answer it. Then you asked me if the ticket was included 10 hours before the start time which I answered that it was not included and that was the last time I heard from you until the other day at 11am, I don't mean that you did something strange but the attitude doesn't seem normal to me, anyway I hope you enjoyed the free breakfast a lot. I waited for you from 6:50 am to 11:00 am, I was standing next to the office very worried thinking that something happened, I tried to contact you and called almost all the hotels in the area asking for you and no one knew nothing, for me it was a great relief to know that you and your family are fine and that it was just a misunderstanding and not something worse.
Well, I offer you my sincere greetings and Pura Vida, thank you for your visit, I wish you a good trip, gentleman.
Anna_B, Apr 2022
I would recommend this tour if you cannot go to any other tours in the area. It was good because our tour guide was engaging, but the scarcity of the wildlife (visual) was sad, considering this is where we should have seen a lot more animals than anywhere else in CR, other than the most remote places like Osa Peninsula. Also it would have been totally fine for us to not spend so much time waiting for quetzals but focus more on the rest of the wildlife existing in the Cloud Forest. Finally, I don't think Monteverde Cloud Forest is the best place in general--do try other reserves in the area if possible. So crowded that we couldn't hike on one of the trails. I only went to this one because the one I wanted never replied to my email inquiries.
Response from Host, Apr 2022
Hola Thank you for your recomenations,
Surya_P, Jan 2019
We booked for 7.30 AM and confirmed appointment. However, when we reached the Cloud forest, we had all kinds of surprises, nothing as promised.1. Guide did not care for our appointment and told us that he has 5 other tourists, and moved our appointment to 11.30 without notice or our approval. We booked this appointment specifically at 7.30 so that we can see more birds and other creatures. 11.30 was of no use to go on the tour. Guide was very reluctant and did not give respect or care for our appointment. Bad attitude.2. Finally, he said that he can do the tour at 9.30 am. When we came back at 9.30 am, he said that we should buy the tickets to park, which he did not mention at all when we met at 7.30 am. He said that we may not be able to get the entrance tickets as they may be sold out. He said that he cannot help and it was not his problem.3. Viator mentioned that mobile tickets are accepted and to print the voucher. However, to our surprise and disappointment, the guide said that we should buy the tickets and pay again for the tickets to entrance. This was a rip off, and news to me.4. Finally, upon waiting for a while, we were lucky to buy the entrance tickets. Guide took us to the tour, however, he had shown lot of attitude throughout the tour. He was not paying attention to us. However, he set up the telescope to show a bird and was showing some others, who are not part of the team, and collecting tips / money from others while making us wait longer and not showing us properly.We are completely disappointed and not satisfied. We request for full REFUND of our amount paid by us.Hope you consider our situation what we have to go through. In the past we booked several other tours with Viator and had no issues. However, this experience made me very dissatisfied with Viator your operator.Hope Viator will take appropriate action to keep up their service standards and refund us.Thank you,SP
Ingrid_S, Aug 2024
De natuurwandeling hield in een wandeling van 500 meter tot 1 km in 2,5 uur.
Het was meer stilstaan dan wandelen.
Alle gidsen lopen allemaal over hetzelfde pad.
We hebben een paddestoel, een orchidee en een spin gezien, alle 3 nog kleiner dan een speldenkop.
Na afloop ga je nog met de gids naar het kolibrie café, maar daar kun je zelf ook zo naar toe lopen.
Ga je Monteverde, ga dan lekker zelf door het park lopen.
Response from Host, Aug 2024
Hola gracias por su comentario.
Si llevas un guia es para aprovecharlo y tomar el tour no para ignorar a su guia. Observamos otros animales pero ustedd decidio abandonar el grupo despues de los primero 5 minutos dede que el tour comenzo. Gracias pero su forma de aprovechar su guia naturalista es un poco extraña. buen viaje
LuisAndres_P, Apr 2022
El trato y el conocimiento de todo el recorrido del guía Olberg fue un punto a destacar. El tour es muy agradable.
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