Best birding Full Day Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge Boat Tour?
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First of all, when you purchase a journey to Caño Negro, be sure you are visiting Caño Negro Refuge for full-day caño negro boat tour.
While the area just outside the Caño Negro National Wildlife Refuge is also beautiful, the original park is part of the RAMSAR convention, which means it is a globally important wetland. This makes the original park a must-visit for birdwatchers and nature lovers.
Unfortunately, some travel agencies and tour operators spread misinformation about Caño Negro, claiming that it is difficult to reach and that you must join a day tour to visit. This is simply not true.
You can easily drive your car to Caño Negro town along road 138. The road is a bit bumpy, but it is not impassable.
Caño Negro is a remote area, but that is part of its charm. The lack of human development has allowed wildlife to thrive, making Caño Negro a prime spot for birdwatching and other nature activities. Because of this, the best time to visit caño negro is every day.
Tours of Caño Negro: The Bat Falcon 1 night 2 days vacation package. Made for birdwatcher and photographers addict.
If your goal is to enjoy your vacation time birding and photography in Costa Rica, and not wasting your time for 5+ hrs in a bus for a “Full Day Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge Boat Tour”, this package is for you.
This offer includes:
1 night at Hotel de Campo, just in front of one of the largest lagoons of Caño Negro Refuge.
A pleasant dinner
An excellent breakfast
and most of all, 2 boats tour in Caño Negro refuge, for up to 7 hours of pure birdwatching and photography.
And that is not all… our tours are private! YES! is private, and this means that only your party will be on the boat.
The first tour of 3 hours is programmed to start at 3 pm on the check-in date. Meanwhile the second tour is for the next day at 6 am in the morning. We cover the best time of the day for your birdwatching and photography activity.
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With Hotel de Campo is easy to make a guaranteed reservation. Just contact us, tell us when would you visit Caño Negro, and your reservation is confirmed.
unique caño negro tour is more than full day caño negro boat tour
With Hotel de Campo you have the real option to make a Caño Negro day tour. This is because you will be in Caño Negro all day, and 1 night. You can check-in at the hotel at 1 pm, and the check-out the next day is around 11 am. Hotel de Campo is immersed in a large tropical garden in front of the Refuge of Caño Negro. This is already an excellent place to spot birds, and very often see spider monkeys even if you are cooling yourself in the pool of the hotel.
The next day, soon in the morning without traveling for hours from La Fortuna, you will enjoy the real caño negro boat tour.
Caño Negro wildlife refuge tours. What is Caño Negro?
Caño Negro is a Mixed Wildlife Refuge with an area of 10,171 hectares. It was created by Executive Decree No. 15120-MAG of January 20, 1984. Within the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), it belongs to the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area.
The hydrographic basin of the Frío River defines its landscape. It includes the Caño Negro lagoon (one of the largest in the country), a shallow freshwater basin with an area of 800 hectares, and a stagnant water outlet from the adjacent Frío River and its tributary, the Mónico River.
It constitutes one of the most diverse biological areas and one of vital importance for the maintenance of environmental quality in the north of the country.
Caño Negro is a Mixed Wildlife Refuge with an area of 10,171 hectares. It was created by Executive Decree No. 15120-MAG of January 20, 1984. Within the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), it belongs to the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area.
The hydrographic basin of the Frío River defines its landscape. It includes the Caño Negro lagoon (one of the largest in the country), a shallow freshwater basin with an area of 800 hectares, and a stagnant water outlet from the adjacent Frío River and its tributary, the Mónico River.
It constitutes one of the most diverse biological areas and one of vital importance for the maintenance of environmental quality in the north of the country.
The area constitutes a habitat with a great variety of species of flora and fauna and migratory natural communities, many of them unique or in danger of extinction that makes it a site of international importance, since they constitute, together with the humid zones to the south of the Lake from Nicaragua, one of the most outstanding examples of the humid zone in Mesoamerica.
The refuge is home to many migratory waterfowl for part of the year, particularly in the Caño Negro lagoon, which is fed by the Frío River during the rainy season.
The forests, prairies, and swamps of the area give refuge to various species in danger of extinction such as jaguars, tapirs and ocelots, peccaries. Of course, you will have the chance to spot the 3 species of monkeys (the white-faced monkey, the howler or howler monkeys, and the spider monkeys), as well as sloth, anteater, green iguanas, basilisc.
During the dry season, the area is reduced to small lagoons, canals and marshes that are home to dozens of species of migratory birds of many species such as storks, jabiru, limpkin, sandpipers, yellowlegs, spoonbills, ibis, warblers, and more.
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Useful Tips for #1 Best birding Full Day Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge Boat Tour
Pleeease… Bring at least a decent binocular. Animals like to stay away from us. So at least a decent binocular is a must to spot any kind of animal. The minimum recommended size for a binocular is 8×36 or 8×40 is a very good decision. Today you can purchase a good binocular for $100. Try to avoid the cheapest binoculars, especially when you go for birdwatching.
Repellent and Mosquito “plaquitas” (in Google, just type “plaquitas mosquitos”.
YES, in Costa Rica, ALL around Costa Rica we do have mosquitoes. Try to buy the repellent in Costa Rica, is stronger.
Also, for your hotel room, we do have a special electric item, is an electric burner with an insert, in Spanish is “plaquitas”, that works perfectly, and you buy it in every supermarket.
Long pants and long sleeves. I know is hot. But when we visit nature, the refuge, especially when we go for a walk, or during a night walk for frogs, long pants and long sleeves are a must.
Good pair of shoes. Please, avoid “chancletas”, flip-flops, any kind of flip-flop when you visit nature. Best shoes investment? By rubber boots. You can purchase this in any hardware store in Costa Rica, they are cheap.
Rubber boots are the best idea especially when you visit Costa Rica during the rainy season.
A decent camera. Even if taking pictures are not your thing, cellphone cameras are useless for nature pictures. They work fine for panoramic, but if you like to take a picture of a monkey, will be useless. If you like to travel light, look for a bridge camera.
Cellphone local chip-card. Purchase a pre-paid local line. They work fine in all of Costa Rica. So you will be sure to have internet for WhatsApp and other communication. Sometimes, when you travel to a hotel that is not close to a city, there is no cables company that offers the service. So hotels do not have good wifi service.
If you are a birdwatcher, is very useful to have a good cellphone, a good Bluetooth speaker, and the application of Merlin Bird ID. (for Android and IOS) Install this app at home, download the bird package for Costa Rica and Nicaragua. This is the best way to attract birds around. For example, when you have a moment in the garden of your hotel like we do at Hotel de Campo, use the sound. Call the birds.
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