Eastern Bolivia Birding Tour

We scheduled 2 tours with Nick's, both 3 day, 2 night tours. We could not be happier with the organization & communication from the day of our first contact to the followup after the tours. Everything was covered and well planned. Bilingual guide, safe, courteous driver in a good vehicle, good meals and abundant drinking water. We focused a lot on birding and our guide, Saul was well acquainted with all the songs in the forest we wouldn't have been able to separate. Saul has birded Bolivia for many decades and helped us identify over 200 species of birds as well as several species of monkey, poison dart frog, Tayra weasel, black & white tegu, many butterflies, orchids and much, much more. The setting at Refugio Volcanes Lodge is a stunning and unforgettable one. Your cabin is nestled into a small clearing surrounded by forest and huge red sandstone cliffs that remind of Jurassic Park. The staff is extremely warm and helpful here and makes wonderful, fresh meals straight from the garden. Many wonderful trails past wonderful waterfalls and hidden streams and climb to great vistas. From the porch of our room we watched Blue-throated Piping-Guans, Andean Guans, White-throated & Channel-billed Toucans, Chestnut-eared Aracari, Andean Condors and much more. The endemic Bolivian Recurvebill was found not far from the cabin. On our Villa Tunari trip we found two male Andean Cock-of-the-Rock both days we drove up the road to El Palmar. Also Amazonian Umbrellabirds, toucans, antbirds, and many birds of the rainforest. A Sunbittern was catching frogs in the driveway at our hotel El Puente and a bare tree with 6 male Paradise Tanager 7 two Lettered Aracari was just up the driveway there. The oilbirds and vampire bats were very cooperative in their expected caves we visited. Again, we can't thank Nick enough for carefully taking care of us so well and setting up these 2 trips to 2 beautiful settings for very reasonable rates.Everything was very comfortable and safe in wonderful nature settings, as opposed to lavish, resort-style settings which is exactly what we were looking for. We also appreciate Nick's passion for spreading the word and preserving some of the most beautiful wild places in Bolivia as well as the magnificent creatures that live there.