Our mission today is to find the Resplentant Quetzal, one of the most spectacular birds of the Americas. It won't be hard, they are abundant in the forests of La Amistad National Park, a short jaunt from our hotel. Our guide enlightens us with mystical tales and interesting habits of the Quetzal, as their bright red and green plumage with long tails adorns the forest before our eyes. As we hike to a waterfall we are introduced to the cloud forest ecosystem of ferns, epiphytes, mosses and lichens. After lunch, we will have the opportunity to visit a trout farm in this pristine forest where thousands of rainbow trout are hatched each year.
Kids can feed the trout and maybe catch dinner in a nearby stream.
Hiking through the enchanting cloud forests of the Chiriqui Highlands. The cloud forests of Chiriqui are habitat of the Respledant Quetzal. These days in the highlands have been an other-worldly immersion into the tranquillity of rural Panamanian culture and remote wildland. Rock and rolling through the cloud forests of Amistad National Park and Biosphere Reserve. I rode up with the very cautious Guaymi driver who works for the hotel, but didn't know what I was missing until I rode back in Hernan's rig with the teenage girls.