In January we were fortunate to have a week down in Nayarit, west Mexico, visiting friends Jerry and Linda who had rented a house in Rincon de Guayabitos (about 40 miles north of Puerto Vallarta). (We’d say we were escaping a harsh winter for warmer weather, but truthfully winter in southeast Arizona this year has been remarkably mild.)
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In January 2015, Robert joined a tour offered by Mark Pretti Nature Tours to eastern Chiapas, Mexico. The itinerary started from Tuxtla Gutierrez, climbed to San Cristóbal de las Casas in the Sierra Norte de Chiapas, then descended into the eastern tropical lowlands at Palenque and Bonampak, before concluding in Villahermosa in the state of Tabasco.
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In March 2012 we eagerly returned to Panamá with naturalist and bird guide Mark Pretti. This trip covered some of the same ground we did with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (VENT) back in 2005, e.g. the canal zone on the Pacific side near Gamboa, and added in several days up closer to cloud forest at the Canopy Lodge in El Valle de Anton. Read more about it!
In late February we flew down to Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico to join Mark Pretti (www.markprettinaturetours.com) on a west Mexico birding and natural history tour. (Robert had done this same tour 7 years ago; this time Liza got to go too!) Click here to read more about it!
In late March we travelled to the state of Chiapas, Mexico to bird, hike, and camp in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve. Our trip was led by Mark Pretti of Mark Pretti Nature Tours (Hereford, Arizona) with local guide Jorge Montejo of the El Triunfo reserve. We flew into Tuxtla Gutierrez and after a morning in nearby Sumidero Canyon, drove to Jaltenango, the next morning to the coffee farm Finca Prusia, and from there hiked ~8 miles up to the El Triunfo base camp at ~6500 ft elevation.
Continue reading “Chiapas – Mar/Apr 2009”On Robert’s 50th birthday (12 Jan) we were off to explore the state of Oaxaca, Mexico on a tour led by Mark Pretti. Click here for photos and more.
In April 2007 we flew down to Mexico City for a quick, four-day-in-all trip, using up some airline tickets that were “use or lose” from our cancelled January trip to Oaxaca. Click here to read more about it!
In August, Robert and I embarked on a birding/nature trip to Panama with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. Our destination was the Canopy Tower, a former US Air Force radar tower facility on Semaphore Hill overlooking the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, later used by the DEA before being abandoned in the 1995. Remodeled and turned into an eco-lodge, the four-story structure provides visitors a bird’s-eye view into the surrounding canopy and was the perfect base from which to explore the surrounding area. Click here to read more about it!
Just after Christmas in 1995 we were off to Belize with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (VENT) to stay at the Chan Chich lodge inland in Gallon Jug. Few photos from this journey; Liza’s trip journal follows.
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