Night in Merida. Night in Merida. This will also be our best chance to find the very local Merida Sunangel. Night in Merida. Night in Santo Domingo.
Side roads provide access to fine patches of subtropical forest.
Night in Santo Domingo. Later we'll drive down to Barinas at the foot of the Andes, where we'll spend the night. Though it will be difficult to resist stopping to look at the increasingly large flocks of brilliantly-colored waterbirds in roadside pools along the way, all of these are even more numerous at the ranch. Night at El Cedral. We'll then drive back in the dark looking for Common Potoo, a variety of nightjars, Savanna Fox and, with luck, a Giant Anteater or an Ocelot.