Birding the Americas is one of the most rewarding experiences you can treat yourself to and we have the perfect collection of destinations! Not only do our tours offer a wonderful number of bird species, but they also give you a real feel for each of the countries we visit. From the stunning scenery of the high Andes to the tropical complex of the Amazonia, from the Galapagos with its unique and very special wildlife to our extremely popular tours in Costa Rica, an incredible destination with almost 1% of the world’s biodiversity! Each of these tours offer special and comfortable accommodation, great food, easy pace and by limiting the number of the tour party, we can offer attention to the needs of each of our fellow travellers, including opportunities to take time off from the group and spend time on your own. Great birds, incredible scenery, wonderful plant life and most of all holidays to enjoy and remember.

An amazing tour for both scenery and birding, we have chosen our route very carefully to embrace the greatest diversity of habitats and excellent accommodation. It is a tour as appealing to the non birding partner as it is for the avid birdwatcher. It is a holiday that combines several possibilities for relaxing and alternative excursions. Of course fine cuisine, friendly people and spacious surroundings at each of our accommodations, make taking timeout a pleasure and strolling around the many different gardens and private reserves is highly recommended. Having always recorded over 400 bird species on this tour, ensures the enthusiast will never want for some quality birdwatching and those memorable birding moments!

In this Birding Holiday we will stay in the subtropical zones on the lower slopes of the Andes.
The western subtropical zone is an easy zone to do bird watching, with good forest remaining alongside the roads. The eastern subtropics are less well-known but even more bio diverse than the subtropics of the west. The eastern sub-tropics feature amazing tanagers and hummingbirds. The eastern subtropics are also a good place to see the Crested Quetzal and Torrent Duck. Above the forested slopes of the Andes lies a rolling grassland called "paramo." Here the birds are refreshingly easy to see and quite distinct from those of other zones. This is the place to search the sky for Andean Condor, the Andean Snipe and Tawny Antpitta.
As an extension a 5 nights/6 days tour to the Amazonia can be booked. Staying in Napo Wildlife Center you will get the very best of steamy tropical lowlands of the Ecuadorian Amazon

This tour can be booked as an extension of our tours to Ecuador or as a separate one. The actual cruise is 7 nights/8 days, but we have planned to stay 2 nights in Quito, to assure connections and to start relaxed with your cruise.
The enchanted Galapagos Islands are located in the Pacific 0cean some 1000 km off the Ecuadorian coast. The Galapagos province and region is formed by 8.010 km2 of volcanic islands, islets, rocks and boulders, and 70.000 km2 of marine area.
As the result of continuous volcanic activity and heavy underwater eruptions the Galapagos islands emerged some four million years ago from the pacific sea-bottom. Evolution, ocean currents, climate, and the lack of predatory enemies -including man- made the Galapagos a living museum of evolutionary changes, indeed one of the strangest and most compelling places on our planet. Flora and fauna, arriving across the waters from the mainland, colonized the original Galapagos lava beds, developing species unique to the world. Many of the invertebrates, 25% of the fish, 30% of the plants, half of the birds and all of the Galapagos reptiles are endemic to the Galapagos.