Half-day Everglades National Park Tour and 1-Hour Air Boat Ride
Description
With your expert naturalist guide, head out on an amazing 90-minute nature walk in Everglades National Park, the only Unesco World Heritage Site in Florida. This is your chance to view a wide variety of wildlife, including birds, large alligators, baby alligators, turtles, and more, up close! And where it should be experienced, in the wild! Discover the biodiversity of this one-of-a-kind wetland wilderness. For 20-30 minutes, explore Everglades National Park on your own and stop in at the national park visitor center. Collect stamps, pins, or other souveneirs of your choice from ENP. Also, go on a scenic narrated drive led by your naturalist through the Everglades. Take an exhilarating 60-70 minute air boat ride way far from land way out in the true "River of Grass." This non-touristy trip is your opportunity to see all kinds of wildlife and a vast array of bird species. Learn about the Native American culture, and to experience the remote beauty of their unique way of life.
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Itinerary
We pick you up from your Fort Lauderdale Hotel and take you directly to the Everglades. Enjoy a narrated scenic drive along the way.
Round-trip trasnportation
We pick you up from your Miami Beach Hotel
Round-trip transportation
We will head out on an exciting nature walk led by a master naturalist in the actual national park. Experience a ton of wildlife up close and where it should be seen, in the wild! We never go to places with wildlife in cages and pens. We see large alligators, baby alligators, a wide variety of bird species and other wildlife up close. Learn about the different ecosystems of this Unesco World Heritage site (the only one in Florida), and understand the role of water in its conservation. Explore a bit on your own as well, including stopping in at the Visitors Center.
Go on an incredible air boat ride for 1-hour or more on a smaller air boat that allows you to go way out there far from land in the true "River of Grass," vast water wilderness. Go far from land and stop at one or two native tree island villages where the Native people used to live. Experience the remote beauty of their unique way of life. See large alligators, baby alligators, a wide variety of bird species, and much more!
We pick you up from your Miami area hotel
Enjoy a guided scenic driving tour of the real Everglades. Pass over several bridges with vast vistas of the River of Grass. Learn from your master naturalist guide what makes this ecosystem like no other in the world. Learn about the hydrology and geology of the region, and recent conservation efforts. See many different bird species.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Wild Lime Adventures Transportation & Pick-Up Information: Pick-Up / drop off areas: We offer pick-ups from hotels, vacation rentals, and other locations in Miami, Hollywood, Ft. Lauderdale, Hallandale Beach, Surfside, Sunny Isles, Miami Beach, South Beach, and more. Contact us via email or phone to confirm if you're in our service area. Cruise Port & Airport Transfers: We provide pick-ups and drop-offs at Port Miami, Miami Airport, and Ft. Lauderdale Airport. And drop offs at Port Everglades. Free luggage storage is available throughout the tour. Guests can be dropped off at the airport, cruise ports, or other locations at the end of the tour (within our transportation zone) at no extra charge. We can pick you up in one area and drop you off in another (within our transportation zones). Meet-Up Locations: If you're outside our regular pick-up area (e.g., the Keys, Homestead, or the West Coast of Florida), we can arrange a convenient meet-up location. Call for more details. Shared Tours: For shared tours, pick-ups are generally available south of Sunrise Blvd. and east of I-95 in Ft. Lauderdale. In Miami, we pick up anwhere in downtown Miami, including Brickell, in Miami Beach, including South Beach, and anywhere along the southern region of Miami Airport. We can also pick up anywhere in Hollywood Beach, Dania Beach, Hallandale Beach, Sunny Isles, Surfside, and more areas. Please ask us for more details. Private Tours: We can offer broader transportation options for private tours. Pick-Up Time: Standard pick-up time is 7:15–7:30 a.m. You’ll receive the exact time the afternoon before, with a 10-minute window. Please be ready before your scheduled time.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- A tour can be cancelled if minimum numbers are not reached.
- In case of one part of the trip needing to be canceled, we can offer you another date to rejoin to experience that part of the tour, or we can provide a gift certificate in the amount of a discount that can be used on a future tour. No monetary reimbursements are issued for partial cancellations due to the onset of bad weather, or for other reasons.
Reviews(916)
My Husband and I spent time looking at reviews prior to booking and it paid off. Our 50th special holiday to Miami, Everglades was a must do for us. Communication from the team was excellent, made us reassured and looking forward to the day. Pick up/drop off as planned from our hotel by our guide and we hit it off from the start. Honestly he was amazing, funny, knowledgeable and a genuine guy. Water (take own bottle) snacks, sun cream and bite spray, ear protectors all provided. Highlight for me was seeing an otter and baby alligator. So many memories made, it’s a grounding moment away from vibrant Miami Beach. Learning about the culture and history, workout Miami would not exist! Book and take it all in, genuinely best experience.
Wow thank you so much for your amazing review! It sounds like you got to see so much wildlife, we're delighted to hear you had such a great time on our tour! Come again anytime, it was truly a pleasure :).
Armando was an incredible guide. He was very knowledgeable on the plants, wildlife, and nature in general.
Thank you so much for coming! We're happy you loved the tour!
Wonderful experience. Armando is a great guide.
I'm glad you had a wonderful experience, thanks so much for coming on our tour!
Great tour with the perfect mix of sightseeing and adventure. The airboat was the highlight, offering amazing views of the everglades. The airboat ride was both fun and informative. A great way to experience Florida's natural side.
Thank you so much for this kind review! We're glad you found the tour to have the perfect mix of sightseeing and adventure!
Overall, the experience was fine. The tour guide was friendly and knowledgeable. It wasn't as described, though. We didn't spend any time in the Indian Village, the walk was down a paved trail and didn't last the two hours, and if we drove over several bridges to see the Sawgrass, we didn't know we did it. The air boat ride is down a canal, which wasn't as exciting as we had hoped. I booked the tour for the four didn't parts, but as far as I know, we only did two of them. I think the tour itself was good, but they do need to update the description to match what they do.
Wonderful introduction to the Everglades with personable and knowledgeable guide. Saw a limpkin, roseate spoonbills and at least a dozen alligators, among other things.
Sounds like you saw lots of animals, thank you for coming on our tour! We're glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyable trip Plenty of alligators but not guaranteed to see other wildlife but we did see some rare birds The walk is just along a tarmac lane - not really what you would class an Everglades experience and lots of cyclists in the area
We had an amazing experience on our half-day Everglades tour with Armando! He was incredibly knowledgeable, kind, and made the entire trip enjoyable from start to finish. You could tell he genuinely loves what he does, and he shared so many interesting facts about the wildlife and the Everglades ecosystem. We had a great time and would absolutely recommend this tour — especially if you get Armando as your guide!
Thank you for leaving this review and for mentioning Armando! We're glad you enjoyed your time in the Everglades, thanks for coming!
Amazing and experienced guides, the half day adventure was the best morning of casual hike and air boat ride!! Just fantastic!!
We're glad you found it amazing! Thanks so much for choosing us!
This was a wonderful way to experience the area of Shark Valley in the Everglades. Ryan was our “land” guide and he was a wealth of information about so many things: history, botany, bird and animal life. He did a fantastic job Another Ryan led the airboat part of the tour. He was very attentive to making sure we saw alligators, various birds, turtles. It was unfortunate for us that we couldn’t travel the sawgrass, the water levels are just so low right now. It’s the ONLY reason I didn’t give the tour a “5”, and it’s through no fault of theirs.
