Hiking the Cascada Los Frailes from Pereira
- Duration: 9 Hours (approx.)
- Location: PEREIRA, RISARALDA
- Product code: Bird + Monkey spotting - pei
Collected from your Pereira hotel after breakfast you'll make a journey of just over an hour to the small town and starting point of today's tour; La Florida. Once here you'll fill up on coffee and a snack before walking approximately 6 kilometers and 1.5 hours along a rough road, accompanied by a beautiful landscape, filled with onion crops, flowers, and medicinal plants. After arriving at the nature reserve of Otun Qumbaya you'll ver off the road and continue the tour along a well-marked path and with stops along the way for your guide to explain more about this region and this forest full of howler monkeys and birds. After walking for approximately 30 minutes you'll reach the majesty of the waterfall.
This beautiful waterfall almost 70 meters high is located in the tourist corridor of the Otún River in the Florida sector, just 18 kilometers from Pereira, it is surrounded by native and planted forests that form majestic landscapes full of fauna and flora characteristic of this imposing place, among them the Howler Monkey. You can also observe multiple species of birds since this is a strategic point to observe great biodiversity.
- Pick up and Drop off from your Pereira accommodation.
- Transport in a private air-conditioned vehicle.
- Bird watching tour at the Fauna and Flora Sanctuary Otún Quimbaya
- Entrance fees
- Hydration and a Typical Lunch
- Bilingual Tour Guide – Spanish, English.
- Boots, raincoats, telescopes, binoculars
- Experiences and transportation not mentioned in the plan
- Personal expenses and tips