On the day of your arrival at Costa Rica, you will be received by our tour representative at the airport. From there he will take you to the hotel which is very close to the airport. That night you can spend at the hotel. If you can reach the hotel early enough then you will have time to photograph the beautiful flowers in the garden, our hotel is a great space where you can start warming up for the journey ahead. Please note that the meals for this day is not a part of the itinerary but the breakfast next day is included in the tour package.

Drive to the lodge at Atlantic Lowland Rainforest range where the first series of bird photography will begin. In the evening our tour leader will share with you their photography techniques he uses to click subjects in a tropical rainforest setting and will also discuss the photo editing techniques in detail. Both lunch and dinner is a part of the tour package. Overnight stay at the lodge.

The shooting will commence in the early morning light from the lodge’s deck. This is a fabulous opportunity to learn how perches are selected and photography setups are done at the feeders.

Post breakfast the next intensive session will begin, where you will be shooting the King Vulture from a specially designed hide created by award-winning Hungarian wildlife photographer Bence Máté, who pioneered the one-way glass photography technique used widely in nature photography.

We will return for lunch and a post-lunch third session of photography will be held at the Lodge Manager’s house. Here you can capture the beautiful Honeycreepers through a Blind-One setup. You will also have a thrilling time clicking the famous Hummingbirds via the special multi-flash hummingbird setup. In this session, we will set our eyes for the Green Honeycreeper, Red Legged Honeycreeper, Shining Honeycreeper, Blue Dacnis, and the Chestnut colored woodpecker. You might hit upon many other surprises not mentioned in the list.
After the all-day shooting experience, we will sit back and review the images taken.
Note that all meals- breakfast, lunch, and dinner are a part of the package

On this day you will have multiple subjects to shoot. Post breakfast, we will shoot more birds at the feeders.
We will work on creating a special camera set up so that you can photograph the vividly hued Strawberry Poison Dart Frog, Red Eyed Tree Frog, Green, and a Black Poison Frog to name a few. You might even spot the Eyelash Vipers and other reptiles during the shoot.
There will be thrilling night photography on this day where you can catch up with the bats!
All three meals are included on this day as well.

Early morning on the 5th day we will drive towards a private farm with a restricted access at Sarapiqui Rainforest Preservation Area where the next shooting adventure will begin. At this farm, you will spot the Honduran White bats, Spectacled Owls, and some other rare local species.
There will be delicious home cooked lunch for you on this day which you can enjoy while interacting with the local guides
After a short nap at the lodge, we will make our way towards the most popular frog photography location. We will make the most of the afternoon by clicking great macro images of the red-eyed tree frog, glass frog, eyelash viper and many other species that you will spot during the session. Here is a great opportunity to get an introduction Macro Photography from the experts.

On days 6 and 7 We will visit several private farms to spot the red and green Macaws. We will also go for many bird walks to spot rare birds the wild.
Have a relaxed evening after the day’s photographic adventure.
All three meals are included

After an early breakfast on this morning, we will drive through the scenic Talamanca mountain range to reach the high cloud forests located at the edge of the Pacific side of the Continental divide. Here farms are run by a collaborative effort of the lodge owners and local farmers.
After a lovely drive and settling in the lodge we will spend the rest of the afternoon photographing the multi-hued high altitude Hummingbird species like Fiery-Throated Hummingbird, Green Violet-Ear and the Magnificent Hummingbird.
All three meals breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

The pre-breakfast shoot will be really special on this day as we will go looking out for Costa Rica’s most prized Resplendent Quetzal along with the lodge owner. Our lodge owner and his family have started an interesting project along with the local farmers to protect the Quetzal and monitor their movements. This strong network will maximize our chances of spotting the world-famous Quetzal.
After breakfast, we will again focus on multi-flash hummingbird photography. Here is a chance to clarify all your previous doubts and click more hummingbirds. We will also photograph other birds as well that come near the bird feeder setups.

We have reached the last leg of the super exciting bird photography and the morning will be spent shooting outdoors.
Then we will go back to our hotel in San José and have lunch.
Post-lunch we will review the images taken for the last time. Here again, you will get all your queries answered by our tour leader.
Please note that dinner is not included in the package for the last night.

After ten days of intensive and thrilling photography at the Cloud forests of Costa Rica, it is time to head home with a lot of memories to share and stories to tell.