Arrive in Bogotá, met and transferred to your accommodation. Bogotá combines a striking Andean capital with birding on its doorstep.
Páramo or wetland birding near the capital.
Transfer to Río Claro Nature Reserve. Rainforest birding and the oilbird cave. Trails for antbirds and tanagers, then the marble river.
Trails for antbirds and tanagers, then the marble river. A full day in the Magdalena-valley forest. Río Claro's clear river over white marble, ringed by rainforest, is one of Colombia's loveliest reserves.
A full day in the Magdalena-valley forest.
Transfer to Jardín. The cock-of-the-rock lek and the tanager feeders. Andean birding around the coffee town.
Andean birding around the coffee town. A full day of feeders, leks and reserves. Jardín pairs a cock-of-the-rock lek and dazzling feeders with one of the country's loveliest towns.
A full day of feeders, leks and reserves. Hummingbirds and tanagers from a charming base.
Transfer to Montezuma (Tatamá NP). Bird the Montezuma road through the Chocó cloud forest. Tanager flocks and endemics along the slope.
Tanager flocks and endemics along the slope. A full day of cloud-forest birding and photography. Montezuma's climb through the Chocó cloud forest is one of the most bird-rich routes anywhere on earth.
A full day of cloud-forest birding and photography. Hummingbirds and Chocó specialities on the road.
A final morning in Montezuma (Tatamá NP) — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
Drier months — good city weather and birding.
A second drier window.
A landmark heritage hotel in a 1940s mansion, Bogotá's most characterful luxury stay.
A comfortable hacienda hotel with valley views just outside Jardín.
The classic birders' lodge at the foot of the Montezuma road, perfectly placed for the Chocó.
A polished French-styled hotel in the smart Zona Rosa.
An open-sided rainforest lodge above the marble river, immersed in the forest.
A sleek boutique hotel in the Zona T, central and comfortable.
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