Birdwatching Tours from Vilcabamba to the Podocarpus National Park. 2025 – 2026

Exploraves – ExplorBirds is an Ecuador-based tour operator specializing in birding tours all over Ecuador. Our tours are developing at the four regions, the Pacific Coast, Highlands, Amazon basin and Galapagos Islands.

While staying in the beautifull Vilcabamba Valley you will have the opportunity to visit Podocarpus National Park where you will observe the richnest, plants and animals diversity.

Our tours are designed with the professionalism and high quality that define us, offering attractive itineraries and excellent services for you and your clients..

Pablo Andrade, an ornithologist with years experience leading ornithological tours in Southern Ecuador, is the tour leader.

Vilcabamba, inspired by a 1955 article in the USA publication, Reader´s Digest, which sited Vilcabamba as an island of immunity from heart disease with an unusually high incidence of robust and active centenaries, physicians from the world over began to study the population and concluded that the combination of a healthy diet, aerobic exercise, natural mineral waters, and contamination free environment were the main factors contributing contributing to the long, healthy lives of the valley´s residents.

Today, Vilcabamba remains attractive to those looking for relaxation, excellent climate year-round, contact with a largely uncontaminated environment and a friendly population.
Offering accommodations for every budget, Vilcabamba´s activities include hiking to the top of Mandango, an impressive geological formation which overlooks the entire valley, horse riding into the mountains surrounding the town, bathing in the crystal-clear rivers and observing the unique fauna, including a spectacular variety of butterflies. Other attractions in Vilcabamba include a gateway to PNP

Birdwatching Tours Podocarpus National Park: 

From Vilcabamba to the Podocarpus National Park. 

05h30 Leave to the Podocarpus National Park. Bombuscaro River, Tropical Forest. Birds: Coppery-chested Jacamar, Andean Cock-of-the Rock, Amazonian Umbrellabird, Paradise Tanager, Hummingbirds

15h30 starting back to Loja – Vilcabamba.

TOUR PRICE PER PERSON
COST 3 to 7 People
PRICE PER PERSON $ 85
Minimum 3 people

Included: Local Guide
(language: Spanish – English), binoculars, transportation.
Not included: meals.