Monteverde Cloud Forest Guided Night Walk
Recommended by 90% of travelers
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
- 2 to 3 hours (approx.)
- Pickup offered
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and dropoff from Monteverde/Santa Elena only
- All Fees and Taxes
- Equipment
- Professional Guide
- Entry/Admission
- Gratuities
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
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Pickup details
Hotel pickup and drop-off from Monteverde/Santa Elena only. We will pick you up at the lobby of your hotel to start this great expedition. The exact pickup time will be confirmed on your itinerary once the reservation is confirmed. Transportation from outside Monteverde/Santa Elena area will be available for an extra cost.
Itinerary
1
Monteverde
2 hours • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- We don't promise a specific property, reserve, or park where the activity will take place. Faro Travel hereby reserves the right to change/substitute alternate service providers/operators, change routes and, if necessary, may alter or omit stopping places shown on the description/confirmation, due to no availability or any reasonable circumstance beyond its control.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
This experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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Featured review
Vanessa_K
We had a wonderful night walk with our guide Justin. He was an amazing guide — very knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and genuinely passionate about the animals and the forest. We got to see many fascinating animals, including a tarantula, an armadillo, several frog species, a sleeping howler monkey, a scorpion and even a porcupine.
Justin shared a lot of interesting facts and made the whole experience engaging and memorable. Highly recommended!
Reviews
4.7
based on 69 reviews
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Ryan_S, Mar 2026
Enjoyable night walk seeing kinkajou and an owl, some sleeping birds, bats, tarantulas, and ants. It was a full moon and there was a beautiful view with a night rainbow as well.
Sheri_L, Jan 2026
Seeing the cloud forest at night was a completely different and unique experience. We did the later tour (8pm) so that we could enjoy the sunset and while it would've been great to see the forest transition from day to night, there was still so much activity. Our guide was able to spot sleeping toucans, a tapir, and a tarantula! Pickup/drop-off at the hotel made it super easy. Highly recommend this experience in Monteverde!
Terry_A, Dec 2025
Justin, our tour guide, was extremely knowledgeable and entertaining, generous in giving us opportunities to take photos, and very good at finding unexpected sights in the nighttime forest, from a mother sloth cradling her baby in a tree high overhead to a bioluminescent scorpion to a sleeping hummingbird. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in the natural world.
Suzanne_F, Dec 2025
Justin was a great guide. The trail isn't long, but there are a few steep areas. We saw scorpions, a tarantula, sleeping birds, and coati.
Vanessa_K, Nov 2025
We had a wonderful night walk with our guide Justin. He was an amazing guide — very knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and genuinely passionate about the animals and the forest. We got to see many fascinating animals, including a tarantula, an armadillo, several frog species, a sleeping howler monkey, a scorpion and even a porcupine.
Justin shared a lot of interesting facts and made the whole experience engaging and memorable. Highly recommended!
Jim_F, Jul 2025
The weather can be cool. Justin did a great job finding birds, insects and frogs! He took some amazing pictures through his scope!
Laura_Y, Jul 2025
Guide helped us see creatures we would never have noticed with our untrained eyes. Picked us up from our hotel and provided us with lights for the tour.
Maja_M, Jul 2025
The tour was wonderful: Justin was our tour guide and he brought his younger cousin, Joshua, so we had two dedicated and caring tour guides instead of one! Justin was incredibly knowledgable, calm, friendly, and had great rapport with other guides we passed during the tour. We saw so much: birds, bugs (from big stick insects and spiders to a sleepy tarantula), strangling fig trees, and more. Just has a great deal of knowledge and loves nature and his work. We were treated royally, and having done other tours in Costa Rica, this one definitely had the best tour guide.
Paula_M, May 2025
Justin was amazing. We had a great time with him. He showed us so many animals we would have never seen!! He was great and we’d highly recommend this tour.
Kerri_H, May 2025
We loved the night hike in Monteverde Cloud Forest. There are so many amazing animals to see at night, big and small. And night time photos turn out beautiful, especially of frogs! We saw different varieties of Toucans, tarantula, coatis, frogs and so many neat little creatures. Advise to take your own flashlight if possible. It was pouring rain on our walk but that didn’t affect it. Rain poncho would have been good to have but we stayed somewhat dry under the canopy. My son loved this and we definitely recommend it. Our guide Justin was great, local, and very knowledgeable. Pura Vida!
Alexander_S, Mar 2025
A great experience. Our guide, Justin, knew a lot about the wildlife of Monteverde and we saw tarantulas, toucans, scorpions and other insects. Was amazing exploring the forest at night.
Charlotte_L, Mar 2025
Really great tour with knowledgeable guides and a telescope through which you can see the animals. Would recommend
Lucas_A, Feb 2025
Justin was our guide for the night tour, we really appreciated his kindness, knowledges and experience.
Thanks to his sight we managed to see plenty animals with explanations.
That was a really nice experience to do the night tour, even though it is a bit expensive for what it is, a track loop in the forest.
Frank_H, Jan 2025
Very nice tour. The guide was good at finding and showing different animalsk. He helped us take good photoes.
Marie_G, Nov 2024
Our guide was very informative, knowledgeable and so excited to see and show us an armadillo on the ground, porcupine in the trees. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Great guide, thank you so much.
Todd_R, Jun 2024
The tour felt corporate, exploitive of the animals, and overly focused on just getting people pictures for social media.
It our tourguide heard a report over his walkie talkie of a potential animal sighting from one of the several tourguides in the area, he would make us rush through the dark to that location. At one point we traversed the *exact* same section of trail flat least four times in a row in an attempt to see something.
Additionally, when he saw a tarantula deep in a hole in a tree, he antagonized it with a stick to draw it out.
If all you care about is seeing animals and getting pictures, and you don't care how it happens, you may enjoy this your. If you are interested in a more relaxed tour that seems to seek to minimize it's impact on the animals, I'd recommend Santa Elena Reserve's Sounds of the Cloud Forest tour instead.
Erica_L, May 2024
Such a great experience! We saw so many animals and our tour guide was great. Even if we hadn’t seen anything, it would have been a fun experience to run around in the forest at night!
Anthony_B, Mar 2024
Kendall was a great guide lots of information and had a great eye for spotting wildlife. Saw frogs, insects, birds and a tarantula!
Elana_S, Jan 2024
What Viator doesn't explain in the listing for this tour is that it's not actually in the official cloud forest reserve. It is thorough one of the local private tour companies that is described as the most commercial on a few websites I've since cross-referenced. I wish I knew this before we booked.
The walk takes place on a small and fairly trotted-over farm that does have a forest on it but it's by no means the cloud forest reserve. It was packed with large groups of people all chasing down the same one sloth and viper and scorpion, which seemed a bit suspect if not simply disappointing. Please make sure you research the company you are booking with. There are many 'night walk' tours available and they're all at different locations. Only one is offered at the official Cloud Forest reserve. Make sure you book with them directly or choose a well reviewed company and book with them directly. You will not know who you're getting through this site.
William_P, Nov 2023
Walking through the rain forest at night and experiencing nature up close was awesome,but:
After viewing your online photos, I was very disappointed. The photos displayed bats, frogs, snakes, and much more, yet after a 2 hour walk, all I saw were 2 tarantulas.
Response from Host, Nov 2023
Dear William,
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on your Monteverde Cloud Forest Night Walk. We genuinely appreciate your feedback and are delighted to hear that you found the experience of walking through the rainforest at night to be awesome.
We understand your disappointment in not encountering the variety of wildlife featured in our online photos. Nature, being wonderfully unpredictable, sometimes chooses to keep its wonders more discreet. While we strive to showcase the diverse fauna of the Cloud Forest, we want to express our sincere apologies that the sightings during your walk did not meet your expectations.
Wildlife, as you experienced with the tarantulas, can be elusive, and their presence is beyond our control. Our professional local tour guides always strive to find the wildlife, employing their deep knowledge and passion. However, as you've witnessed, sometimes these creatures prefer to remain hidden, adding an extra layer of mystery to the rainforest experience.
We value your understanding of the unpredictability of nature, and we are committed to continually improving our communication to ensure that future explorers have accurate expectations.
We genuinely appreciate your feedback, and we hope that, despite the variance in wildlife sightings, you were able to appreciate the unique and enchanting atmosphere of the Monteverde Cloud Forest at night.
If you have any further comments or if there's anything specific you believe we can enhance, please don't hesitate to share. We are grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow from your experience.
Lidieth, owner
The Faro Travel Costa Rica Family
WhatsApp and Telegram: +506 8578-4040
Jessica_B, Feb 2023
Great guide and we loved all the information given about the leaf cutter ants, saw some rodents, birds, and tarantulas
Response from Host, Apr 2023
Dear Jessica,
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review regarding your recent experience with Faro Travel Costa Rica on the Monteverde Cloud Forest Night Walk. We are delighted to hear that you had a great time and enjoyed the informative guide who provided you with valuable information about the diverse flora and fauna found in the area. We are also happy to hear that you were able to observe various species of animals, such as the leaf cutter ants, rodents, birds, and tarantulas. Our team is dedicated to providing our customers with a unique and immersive experience, and we are pleased that we were able to exceed your expectations.
Once again, thank you for choosing our family-owned and operated company, and we hope to have the opportunity to serve you again in the future.
Pura Vida!
Freddy, owner
The Faro Travel Family
WhatsApp and Telegram: +506 8578-4040
Michal_F, Apr 2022
Denis was a fantastic tour guide, very knowledgeable about the animals and plants and ecosystem. Great experience!
Response from Host, May 2022
Dear Michal_F,
First of all, thank you so much for sharing your praises about our level of service and for trusting in the quality of our family-owned and operated business.
We are very happy to know that you had a great experience. Denis and the entire Faro Travel Costa Rica Team is just exceptional; very knowledgeable, passionate, professional and we love to make sure you get the most exclusive, distinctive, and personalized service while you’re visiting, so thanks for mentioning his work; so very kind of you!
Thanks again for supporting our family-owned and operated business.
Best wishes! Looking forward to have you with us again.
Pura Vida!
Lidieth, owner
Team Faro Travel
WhatsApp and Telegram: +506 8578-4040
Bina_P, Feb 2022
Christian is a guide who helps keep everyone safe and does his best to help everyone see what he sees. Unfortunately, it seemed we were being shown some standard and non-unique living creatures. We saw a racoon, an armadillo, a firefly, a grasshopper, a tarantula, etc. Coming from Texas, we hardly say anything that we may have not seen in Texas.
Also, our tour was shorter than we expected. It was not a 2 hour hike. It seemed like too much time was spent in picking up and dropping off and only a little over an hour actually spent on the night hike.
Response from Host, May 2022
Dear Bina_P,
First of all, I want to thank you so much for supporting our family-owned and operated business by sharing your words and booking with us!
It has been a pleasure having you with us. I am also very happy to hear that Christian contributed to enhancing this experience, he is a very knowledgeable and professional tour guide.
This experience is perfect for nature and wildlife lovers and there is much more you can see on this night hike, we are very sorry you did not get to see much. Unfortunately, we can't control wildlife since it is unpredictable and therefore cannot guarantee that you will see it. We also cannot guarantee the weather and it might have affected that night.
About the tour duration, there are some factors that can contribute to this as the walking speed and the number of animals that are out that night to appreciate.
Thank you again for sharing your comments with us and please contact us if you decide to plan a second vacation to Costa Rica with us 🙂
Pura Vida!
Freddy, owner
Faro Travel Costa Rica
WhatsApp and Telegram: +506 8578-4040
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