Noel Paschal

Our visit on 9 Dec was more of just a walk in the dark and not the night tour of nocturnal animals I was hoping for. Our guide was polite and seemed effecting at spotting what animals were present. The tour provided one guide for each pair of guests. Entrance to the trail was quite muddy and slippery, but the remainder of the trails had gravel where needed to allow safe walking. We saw part of a snake balled up on a limb in a very tall tree, a frog in a pool that looked very common within the Southeastern USA, a line of leaf cutter ants working around the clock, and several pairs of birds sleeping in trees. We saw one other snake that was extended in a bush with head low toward the ground as waiting for its prey. Maybe it was just the weather that night, but no sloths or other night animals on the move. Based on what our experience turned out to be, I wish I had passed on the Monteverde Night Tour and just stuck to visiting cloud forests during the day.