Monteverde Butterfly Gardens Tour
Description
Our tours are a little over an hour in length, and include the following: An introduction to Costa Rica bugs, and an orientation to the Gardens An up-close experience with a variety of insects and arachnids A look at our rearing chamber, where caterpillars are becoming butterflies A stroll through our 3 unique gardens, full of spectacular butterflies. The most valuable part of every admission to the Monteverde Butterfly Gardens is a tour with one of our dedicated and passionate guides. Available in English or Spanish our tours will take you through each section of the insectarium and gardens. With our guide at your side, you will see and learn far more than you ever would by yourself. Our guides love bugs! Our guide will provide lots of interesting information as the tour progresses. Once the tour is over, you are welcome to continue exploring on your own for as long as you'd like. Pay your entry once and keep coming back as long as you are in Monteverde!
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Here at the Monteverde Butterfly Gardens, we have been teaching people about Costa Rica's insects and arachnids for over 30 years. We have made it our mission to change the way people think about these small, misunderstood creatures. This may seem like a daunting task, but our bugs and tour guides can win over even the most skeptical visitor! With up to 30 species of butterfly in 4 different habitats, over 20 species of live insects and arachnids in our nature center, an active leaf-cutter ant colony and the best guides in the business, we truly have something for everyone!
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
Reviews(90)
Called as we were staying next door. $20 p/p. Started with an introduction to the local insects, which was conducted inside and very interesting. We then swopped guide (Ollie) and got a tour outside visiting the various (X4) areas - each a specialist area Both guides were really enthusiastic and passionate with excellent knowledge. Perfect visit for after visiting the cloud forest.
At first I was skeptical that the cost was worth it ($20/adults, $18/students), but by the end of the tour, I was convinced that it was a great experience! I highly recommend it for anybody visiting Monteverde. Our guide, a young lady from England, started with a 30 minute presentation about spiders, scorpions, beetles, stick bugs, and butterflies. Not only was she thoroughly knowledgeable about her topic, but presented the information in a fun and enjoyable way. We then went out to a series of greenhouses, where she identified each of the species of butterflies, and spoke about their characteristics. She finished the tour by taking us to one final screened-in area that contained the butterflies indigenous to Costa Rica. If you come to Monteverde, especially if you have children, make sure to add this to your list of “must do” activities.
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What a wonderful and surprising and educational experience! Our guide made everything very interesting and fun with her personal stories and amazing knowledge!
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This was a great way to spend a couple hours that we had free in the afternoon when we were in Monteverde. We had our 10 and 12 year olds with us, and all four of us were fascinated by all of the things we learned in the insect room with the tour guide, who was excellent. In fact, we came to see the butterflies, but we ended up finding the insect room to be the best part of the experience. Because we came late in the afternoon, the butterflies weren't very active, so if you want to see more of them flying around, you may want to visit in the morning. But no matter when you come, you will learn a lot about the interesting bugs of Costa Rica.
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A nice exhibit of local insects and four greenhouses of butterflies of different types and environments. Informative and friendly guides. The final section of road is very steep so beware.
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What a delightful time we spent at the gardens. The girl giving the fantastically informative and entertaining talk completely made it! Sadly I can’t remember her name, she is on sabbatical and only has three more weeks there. What a loss. The talk was very interesting and seeing all the butterflies was a delight. Sadly we had to leave Monteverde the next day, otherwise we would have been back.
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Such a little gem in Monte Verde! Lots of butterflies in different spaces. Super friendly staff. Our guide knew a lot about the different varieties.
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I learnd a lot about the life of butterflys and other insects. Thanks to the profound knowledge and the good humuor of our guide, this tour was amazing and real fun.
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Good explanation and enough time to walk around and see everything. Because it was very rainy those days opportunity to admire butterflies.
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The guide explained a lot of very interesting little things, the different gardens... very nice and interesting and after the tour we could go back alone and take our time.
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