Costa Rica - Central Highlands (Relaxed) 2025

14 Sep 2025 - 26 Sep 2025 (13 days)

USD6,295 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Amanda Guercio

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Tour Leader: Jehudy Carballo

Tour price (Per person): USD6,295 * GBP4,972 * EUR6,018 * AUD9,901

Single Supplement: USD730 * GBP577 * EUR698 * AUD1,148

Costa Rica - Central Highlands (Relaxed) 2026

18 Sep 2026 - 30 Sep 2026 (13 days)

USD6,500 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Alexander Alvarado

Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*

Tour price (Per person): USD6,500 * GBP5,134 * EUR6,214 * AUD10,223

Our new Relaxed tour of Costa Rica takes in several of the key birding sites of this incredibly diverse country but allowing us time to enjoy each location in an unrushed fashion. The backbone of the country is formed by a scenic mountain range, splitting the lowland forests of the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Several roads allow unparalleled access to the lowlands, foothills, and higher altitude oak forests. Our tour takes in many attractive and exotic species including the unbelievable Snowcap, Long-tailed and Orange-collared Manakins, Scarlet Macaw, Fiery-billed Aracari, Talamanca Hummingbird, Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher and Black-and-yellow Phainoptila.

Costa Rica has strongly positioned itself towards avitourism, developing a superb infrastructure to service the numerous visiting birders, and with over 850 species it is easy to understand why! Thrilling birding, quality lodges and a relaxed pace make this destination perfect for anyone!

Top Birds

Scarlet Macaw; Snowcap; Violet Sabrewing; Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer; Black-crested & White-crested Coquettes; Violet-headed, Snowy-bellied, Charming, Scintillant, Volcano, Cinnamon & Talamanca Hummingbirds; Grey-tailed Mountaingem; White-crowned, White-ruffed, Red-capped, Blue-crowned & Orange-collared Manakins; Bicolored Hawk; Turquoise Cotinga; White-throated Magpie-Jay; Scarlet-rumped, Black-and-yellow, Carmiol’s, Flame-colored, Speckled & Crimson-collared Tanagers; Finsch’s Parakeet; Timberline Wren; Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush; Sooty Thrush; Volcano Junco; Costa Rican Pygmy Owl; Large-footed & Yellow-thighed Finches; Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher; Black-and-yellow Phainoptila; Flame-throated & Black-cheeked Warblers; Silvery-throated Jay; American Dipper; Torrent Tyrannulet; Golden-browed Chlorophonia; Baird’s Trogon; Shining Honeycreeper, Red-legged & Green Honeycreepers; Blue Dacnis; Tody Motmot; Jabiru; Black-faced Antthrush; Boat-billed & Bare-throated Tiger Herons.

Top Mammals

Mantled Howler Monkey; Hoffman’s Two-toed Sloth

Habitats Covered

rainforest, cloud forest, highland oak forest, dry forest, rivers

Expected Climate

mostly tropical conditions; warm to humid with cooler conditions in mountainous areas

Max Group Size

3 - 8 with 1 Tour leader / 9 -10 with 2 Tour leaders

Tour Pace & Walking

UNDEMANDING: This tour is ideal for birders and wildlife enthusiasts of all experience levels. It’s suitable for most mobility levels and offers a relaxed pace, ensuring an enjoyable experience for everyone.

Our Relaxed series of tours are designed to focus on having an enjoyable holiday with a bird and wildlife focus. Where possible; we have reduced or removed long drives, single night stays and poor/rustic accommodation. We have also sought to reduce or remove difficult hikes, narrow/muddy trails and otherwise oppressive environmental conditions. Early starts and night birding are mostly optional, and we will not spend much time searching for difficult and/or skulking species. These tours are not suitable for hardcore birders and listers, or dedicated photographers.

Accommodation

Comfortable

Ease of Birding

Mostly easy. Garden & lodge birding typically provides good visuals of most species. Some optional forest interior birding.

Photographic Opportunities

Good. Lots of fruit & hummingbird feeders. Photography more difficult within closed forest canopy.

What our clients say about us

Jehudy Carballo
DK, Costa Rica 2024

Super tour and the excellent guiding services were made even better by the presence of our driver who could be a bird guide in his own right.

Jehudy Carballo
CL, Costa Rica 2024

The tour guide Jehudy Carballo was excellent - extremely knowledgeable and nice. Even the driver Pablo was knowledgeable about birds and together they worked very well. I would definitely recommend this tour - all the lodges were amazing, the schedule was very well organized and food was delicious. We saw so many birds, it was absolutely amazing!

Forrest Rowland
SP, Cost Rica 2015

I can say it was a great tour. Forrest and Richard were fantastic leaders. I would bird with them anywhere.

Jehudy Carballo
PG, Costa Rica 2024

This was a seriously enjoyable tour. To be fair though it would be hard to NOT enjoy a bird tour to this lovely country. Still the accommodation was good, Jehudy kept a diverse group interested and coordinated with his high level of expertise, responsiveness to individual needs and great birding knowledge—And the birds just kept coming.

Robert Wilcox
JK, Costa Rica

Bobby Wilcox was a good guide. Calm and knowledgeable. The food and accommodation were both very good, Better than I expect.

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