Birds Colombia Experience Photo Tour by Niky & Mauro

Otún Quimbaya Fauna and Flora Sanctuary is located in the Cordillera Central in the Andean Region of the Andes in Colombia. It is part of the Risaralda Department. The Sanctuary area is characterized by vegetation representative of the Andean rainforest. The fog frequently covers the peaks and slopes of the adjacent Los Nevados Natural Park, which gives it an enigmatic and mysterious character.

The park has a great diversity of bird species, butterflies and small mammals. The topography is very varied with slopes where you can observe a preserved forest and crystalline rivers. We will be sharing with the local community association that was declared one of the 100 sustainable destinations in the world in 2017.

In the afternoon we will visit El Sutú Reserve, is the story of a farmer who traded his coffee farm for a conservation reserve.

Looking for Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager, Silver throated tanager, Golden naped tanager, Black and gold tanager, Purple-bibbed Whitetip, Velvet-purple Coronet, Violet-tailed Sylph.

At Montezuma is the story of a farmer woman who, fleeing from the violence in her territory, came to this paradise in the Tatama National Park. Birders, butterfly enthusiasts, orchid lovers, zoologists and botanists of all kinds come from all over the world to explore the amazing abundance of life in a pristine natural rainforest ecosystem located in one of the planet’s major biodiversity hotspots.

At Montezuma you will enjoy comfortable accommodations, delicious home-cooked meals and Colombia’s most bird-friendly hotspot in the
magnificence of one of Colombia’s great natural treasures: Tatamá Natural Park. Hotspot #1 in Colombia

John is a coffee farmer, together with his parents, has dedicated his farm to agrotourism, is a very special place to drink good coffee roduced on the farm and to take good photographs of Green Honeycreeper, Bay-headed tanager, Andean motmot, Blackcapped tanager.

Kiraikai is located in the BarbasBremen Natural Reserve, part of the foothills of the central mountain range (Andean and subAndean forest). Is a natural reserve in the Barbas Bremen canyon, Juan Carlos, its owner is a chef and has dedicated himself to the conservation of this place where there are records of Mantled howler, Puma and the Cauca poison frog.

Morning in Filandia, one of the most beautiful villages of the coffee region, where we will find color ful houses with balconies, handicrafts, a very good place to take pictures. In this small town of temperate climate we will know a little more of the Coffee Cultural Landscape, the architecture of the colonization.

In the afternoon we will go to Anime in search of the Yellow-eared Parrot in the Wax Palms.

In the morning we will go to the reserve El retorno de los colibríes to photograph hummingbirds and the endemics Tolima Dove, Indigo-capped Hummingbird and Tolima blossomcroun and learn the story of Harrison, a boy farmer who today is a Guardian of the birds and has a business made with the arracacha (a kind of sugar beet) produced on his small farm.

Return to Matecaña airport (Pereira)