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Birdwatching Tour in Cajas National Park from Cuenca
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• TOUR DETAILS :
• Lenght: 8hours approx.
• Start / Finish: Cuenca
• Activity Level: Easygoing
DESCRIPTION:
El Cajas National Park has different ecosystems as a moorland, high grassland or paramo, cloudy forest, polylepis forest, which allows us to offer the following program.
Pick up in your hotel or residence in Cuenca to go to the middles part of the park, approx 3800masl (12800 ft). Here we can see birds like:
• Tufted Tit Tyrant
• Variable Hawk
• Red Rumped Bush Tyrant
• Plain Colored Seedeater
• Aandean Rudy Duck
• Tit Like Dacnis
• Stout Billed Cinclodes
• Bar Winged Cilclodes
• Brown Back Chat Tyrant
• Many Striped Canastero
• Aandean Tit Spinetail
• Blue Mantled Thornbill
• Ecuadorian Hillstar
• Giant Conebill
• Violet Throated Metaltail (Endemic)
• Tawny Antpita
After lunch proceed to visit the lowest part, Llaviuco Valley located 3200masl (10500 ft). In this beautiful valley you can see birds like:
• Masked Trogon
• Gray Breasted Mountain Toucan
• Turquoise Jay
• Black Flowerpierced
• Grass Wren
• Black Crested Warbler
• Brown Bellied Swallow
• Tyrian Metaltail
• Rainbow Starfrontlet
• Shining Sunbeam... and more!
This tour will end with your hotel drop-off in Cuenca.
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• Lenght: 8hours approx.
• Start / Finish: Cuenca
• Activity Level: Easygoing
DESCRIPTION:
El Cajas National Park has different ecosystems as a moorland, high grassland or paramo, cloudy forest, polylepis forest, which allows us to offer the following program.
Pick up in your hotel or residence in Cuenca to go to the middles part of the park, approx 3800masl (12800 ft). Here we can see birds like:
• Tufted Tit Tyrant
• Variable Hawk
• Red Rumped Bush Tyrant
• Plain Colored Seedeater
• Aandean Rudy Duck
• Tit Like Dacnis
• Stout Billed Cinclodes
• Bar Winged Cilclodes
• Brown Back Chat Tyrant
• Many Striped Canastero
• Aandean Tit Spinetail
• Blue Mantled Thornbill
• Ecuadorian Hillstar
• Giant Conebill
• Violet Throated Metaltail (Endemic)
• Tawny Antpita
After lunch proceed to visit the lowest part, Llaviuco Valley located 3200masl (10500 ft). In this beautiful valley you can see birds like:
• Masked Trogon
• Gray Breasted Mountain Toucan
• Turquoise Jay
• Black Flowerpierced
• Grass Wren
• Black Crested Warbler
• Brown Bellied Swallow
• Tyrian Metaltail
• Rainbow Starfrontlet
• Shining Sunbeam... and more!
This tour will end with your hotel drop-off in Cuenca.
Included
- Private transportation
- Bilingual birdwatcher tour guide
- Box lunch
- Bird list of the area
- Binoculars (please ask for these in advance)
- Snacks
- Bottled water
Not included
- Personal expenses
- Tips
- Gratuities
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers
Features
Tourism
70%
Cultural
55%
Adrenaline
35%
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