Bolivia 14 DAYS / 13 NIGHTS

Bolivia 14 DAYS / 13 NIGHTS


14 Days / 13 Nights

Overview

Day 1: Arrive to Santa Cruz, we pick you up at the airport.

Overnight Santa Cruz. L: D

Day 2: Today we will explore Birding areas around Santa Cruz

Overnight in Santa Cruz B: L: D

Day 3: Flight Santa Cruz to Trinidad in the morning and explore the different habitats.

Overnight in Trinidad. B: L: D

Day 4: Birdwatching at the floodplains and surrounding areas and get familiar with the Avifauna

Overnight in Trinidad. B: L: D

Day 5: Morning flight then to Santa Cruz then we will drive to   Los Volcanes

Overnight Los Volcanes. B: L: D

Day 6: We will explore the different trails and viewing points

Overnight in Los Volcanes. B: L: D

Day 8: We drive to the Valle Grande area

Overnight in Valle Grande. B: L: D

Day 9: We will be Birding at the area on the way to Comarapa

Overnight at in Comarapa. B: L: D

Day 10: Explore and Birding at the Tambo and Saipina

Overnight in Comarapa. B: L: D

Day 11: Birding at Comarapa area

Overnight in Comarapa. B: L: D

Day 12:  Today we drive toward Cochabamba birding along the way

Overnight Cochabamba B: L: D

Day 13: Explore and Birding at Cochabamba

Overnight Cochabamba. B: L: D

Day 14: Cochabamba flight to La Paz then flight back home.

End of the trip

Itinerario

Day 1  Arrive to Santa Cruz.

Overnight Santa Cruz.

Day 2

After breakfast we will visit the botanical garden, a very large area where you can look for species such as Yellow-chevroned Parakeets, Blue-winged Parrotlets, Thrush-like Wrens and Rufous Horneros, Green-cheeked Parakeet, Buff-bellied Hermit, White-wedged Piculet. , Bolivian Slaty Antshrike and Fawn-breasted Wren, Pale-crested Woodpecker and White-backed Fire-eyeLeast Grebe, Rufescent Tiger-Heron, Wattled Jacana, Rufous-sided Crake, Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Yellow-chinned Spinetail and Red-capped Cardinal ,Rufous-throated Sapphire, Red-billed Scythebill, White-bellied and White-crested Tyrannulets, Mato Grosso Antbird and the Stripe-backed Antbird.

Overnight in Santa Cruz B: L: D

Guira cucko

Day 3

From Santa Cruz we will take a domestic flight to Trinidad located in the Beni flood plains, then we will spend part of the day on the Lomas de Suares highway where you will look for some species such as Mato Grosso Antbird, Plain Softail, Undulated Tinamou, Straight-billed and Buff. -throated Woodcreepers, White-eyed Attila, Short-tailed Pygmy-tyrant, Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Golden-collared Macaw, White-tailed Goldenthroat, Golden-tailed Sapphire, Rufous Casiornis, Long-winged Harrier, Velvet-fronted Grackle, Hooded Tanager.

Overnight Trinidad .B,L,D

Day 4

Birdwatching in some of the floodplains around Loreto will give us a great list of species including the endemic blue throated macaw and other species such as Chaco Eagle, Orinoco Goose, Plain

Softtail, Cinereous-breasted Spinetail, Sulfur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin, Hudsonʼs Black-Tyrant, Dark-throated Seedeater, and the endemic boliviensis race of Velvet-fronted GracklePlumbeous,

Green, Buff-necked, Plumbeous and Bare-faced Ibis, Comb Duck, Roseate Spoonbill, Maguari Stork, Jabiru, Southern Screamer, Muscovy Duck , Scarlet-hooded and Unicolored Blackbirds,

Greater Thornbird, 3 species of Monjita, Bicolored Seedeater, Toco Toucan, Great Rufous and Narrow-billed Woodcreeper, Rusty-margined Flycatcher, various Whistling Ducks, Little Cuckoo,

Orange-winged Parrot, Azure Gallinule, Slender-billed Kite, Black-collared Hawk , Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher, Chotoy , Cinereous-breasted , Plain-crowned and Yellow-chinned Spinetails,

Rufous Chachalote Fawn-breasted Wren , and Dark-throated Seedeater. Some additional species we may  see include the stately Greater Rhea, Undulated Tinamou, Anhinga, Cocoi, Whistling,

Capped and Striated Herons.

Night in Trinidad. B: L: D

Blue throated Macaws

Day 5

In the morning we will flight to Santa Cruz and we will drive to   Los Volcanes ,this is a great place where species of birds like Green-cheeked Parakeet, Scaly-naped , Red-billed Parrot, Military

Macaws, Plush-crested Jay,  Large-tailed Dove, Blue-crowned Trogon, Ocellated Piculet, Black-capped Antwren and Guira Tanager, White-backed Fire-eye,Glittring-bellied Emerald, Chestnut-

backed Antshrike, Tatauapa Tinamou, Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner, Black-banded Woodcreeper, Two-banded Warbler.

We will spend the rest of the day birding aroud the lodge.

Overnight Los Volcanes. B: L: D

Day 6

The location of this lodge is amazing and has a lot of birds to see like Bolivian Tapaculo, Yungas Manakin, Slender-tailed Woodstar, Buff-bellied Hermit, Blue-browed Tanager, Southern Scrub

Flycatcher, Bicolored Hawk, Military Macaw, Ochre-cheeked Spinetail, Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant, Slaty Gnateater and more. The endemic Bolivian Recurvebill

Overnight in Los Volcanes.

Day 8

After the breakfast we will head to Valle Grande but before get this place we will try to see some species in Samaipata like Alder Parrot,Spot-backed Puffbird, Glittering-bellied Emerald, Red-

crested Finch, Black-capped Warbling-Finch, Sooty fronted and Stripe-crowned Spinetails, Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher, Giant Antshrike, Dot-fronted Woodpecker, White-barred Piculet, Spot-

breasted Thornbird and Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet.

Late in the afternoon we will arrive at Valle Grande and spend the night there.

Bolivian brushfinch

Day 9

We will still have time to bird around the area and getting some species like Red-faced Guan, Golden-winged Cacique, Alder Parrot, Buff-banded Tyrannulet, Short-tailed Anthrush, Variable and

Rufous-capped Antshrikes, Black-banded Woodcreeper and some other species.

Overnight at in Comarapa. B: L: D

Bolivian Spinetail

Day 10

Between Tambo and Saipina the bird watching is very good, the forest is totally different, species like red fronted macaw (endemic), Bolivian Earthcreeper (endemic) White-bellied Hummingbird,

Stripe-crowned Spinetail, White-fronted Woodpecker, Chaco Suiriri Flycatcher Sooty-fronted Spinetail, Cream-backed Woodpecker, Streak-fronted Thornbird, Rufous-capped Antshrike, White-

bellied Tyrannulet, Narrow-billed Woodcreeper, Bay-winged Cowbird, Ringed Warbling-Finch, Gray-crested Finch, Rusty-browed Warbling -Finch, Blue-crowned Parakeets and Turquoise-

fronted Amazons and probably the Black and Rufous Warbling-finch will be possible to see during the day.

Overnight in Comarapa. B: L: D

Day 11

There is a place not far from Comarapa where we will find a cloud forest habitat so this place is call Siberia where we will bird in both sites of the past and we will may see some species like Giant

Antshrike, Andean Guan, Violet-throated Starfrontlet, Red-crested Cotinga, Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet, White-browed Conebill,  Pale-legged Warbler, Crested Quetzal and Blue-winged ,

Chestnut-bellied Mountain-tanagers, Pampa-Finch and Red-tailed Comet on the way back to Comarapa. We may want to spend the afternoon in some dry semi deciduous habitat looking for

Bolivian (endemic) and Rufous-sided Warbling-finches, Speckle-breasted Thornbird, Olive-crowned Crescentchest.

Overnight in Comarapa. B: L: D

Day 12

This day we will head to Cochabamba and we will  stop in Siberia because is in the way then we will look for some patches of polilepys forest ,grassland that will give us some birds like Giant

Conebill,gray hooded parakeet, rock earthcreeper, Andean Swift, Gray-bellied Flowerpiercer (endemic), Rufous-bellied Saltator, Wedge-tailed Hillstar (endemic), Rufous-sided and Rufous-

browed Warbling-finches, Citron-headed Yellow-finch (endemic), Red-tailed Comet, Giant Hummingbird, Golden-breasted Flicker, Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail, Black-hooded Sierra-finch,

Fulvous-headed Brush-finch, Rusty-vented Canastero.

Overnight Cochabamba B,L,D

Day 13

This is our last day and we may explore the upper part of the cloud forest of Chapare, Great Sapphirewing, Cochabamba Thistletail (endemic), black eared and black crowned parrot ,hooded

mountain toucan,chestnut crested cotinga,light crowned spinetail and crowned chat tyrant are some of the species to looking for here.

In the afternoon we wil birds some area to find species like Cochabamba brush finch(endemic) and if we time we will bird around of one lake .

Overnight Cochabamba.B,L,D

Day 14 Cochabamba- La Paz – Home.

End of the trip

It includes

Included in your trip :

  • Air tickets for domestic flights.
  • All the accommodations (hotels,lodges)
  • Accommodation in double rooms
  • Water available all the time
  • All the Transfers services
  • Private Van transportation
  • All meals are included.
  • English speaking guide.
  • Entrances fee for blinds to see hummingibirds or other birds.

Not Included

  • International flights and taxes.
  • Excess baggage charges.
  • Extra services, transportation.
  • Extra nights at the different hotels.
  • Laundry service, room service, tips or gratuity, medical expenses
  • Personal expenses and tips.
  • Passengers should bring some cash.
  • alcoholic drinks, international phone calls

Bolivia 14 DAYS / 13 NIGHTS

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