Arrive in Jardín, met and transferred to your accommodation. Jardín pairs a cock-of-the-rock lek and dazzling feeders with one of the country's loveliest towns.
Andean birding around the coffee town. A full day of feeders, leks and reserves.
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.
Transfer to Los Nevados. Wax palms and coffee-country birding. High-páramo birding for condors and helmetcrests.
High-páramo birding for condors and helmetcrests. The wax palms of Cocora, set below the snow peaks of Los Nevados, are an unforgettable Andean sight.
A final morning in Los Nevados — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
Drier months — the best birding and clear coffee-country views.
A second drier window.
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 working coffee hacienda near Manizales, a classic central-Andes base.
A charming small guesthouse in the coffee town of Jardín.
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