When I was doing the planning for this trip, I really wanted to stay here but it’s just so difficult to book it if you aren’t on some kind of package tour.  Their website doesn’t even have prices or a booking page!  I decided to take a chance they may have unbooked roooms when we arrived and we could get a good last minute deal.  It wasn’t to be, when I called the day before, I found out that they were fully booked.  They did offer day visits in which one of their guides takes you around the property and shows you the wildlife.  In 2012 it was around $25-ish per person and we ended up having a late lunch there too.

Driving into the property

A Chestnut-eared Aracari welcomed us in.

Gift shop and dining room where we had a very late lunch.

Rooms

Swimming pool

Red Capped Cardinals bathing

Now the Chestnut-eared Aracari has a friend

Red Capped Cardinals eating

Quakers foraging in the grass and in trees above

Blue Crowned Conure 

Capybaras

Caimans

Why are these capybaras swimming in the same pond with the caimans?

Coati

Quakers, Peach-fronted Conures and other birds foraging on the lawn

All this in just a couple hours in the late afternoon at Araras Eco-Lodge!