Great Jacamar

Pipeline Road

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1 and 3 August 2014 No trip to Panamá is complete without a visit to Pipeline Road. Pipeline Road is one of the most famous birding destinations in Panamá and perhaps even in Middle America. Located in Soberanía National Park, this dirt road offers some seriously excellent birding along a 17 km stretch that passes through mature tropical forest [...]

At the end of the road and into the jungle

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13 – 22 July 2014 The Pan-American Highway starts to deteriorate in the town of Aguafría as you cross from Eastern Panamá Province into Darién Province. From the provincial border east you dodge pot holes, speed bumps and sleeping dogs for another hour or two. These are not just any ordinary pot holes though; some of them consume half the [...]

More Costa Rica – Carara, Caldera, Chomes, Lands in Love, Pocosol, and Fortuna Waterfall

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25 April – 2 May 2014 Carara National Park is a well-known birding destination in Costa Rica where we squeezed in a short day of birding. Unfortunately Carara doesn’t open until 7am (8am after May 1!), and with the sun rising at about 5:15, the best two hours of the day for birding are gone before you can even get in the park. We birded [...]