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– Be one of the few outsiders to explore birding-rich, remote regions of Northern Colombia led by expert local guides.
– Bird the coastal wetland and mangrove habitats of Salamanca National Park and Los Flamencos Sanctuary along Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
– Explore the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest coastal mountain range in the world and home to more than a quarter of the country’s endemic species.
– Enjoy several days of birding at El Dorado Lodge, the ProAves Foundation’s flagship lodge.
– Meet the indigenous Wayúu people in Riohacha and learn about their culture as expressed in their weaving, ceramics, vegetation, and gastronomy.
Day 1 – Barranquilla
Day 2 – Riohacha
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3 – Riohacha
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4 – Santa Marta
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5 – El Dorado Reserve
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6 – El Dorado Reserve
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7 – El Dorado Reserve
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8 – Barranquilla
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 9 – Depart
Meals: Breakfast
Additional information on this trip will be added at a later date.
Susan Rosegrant is a writer and Lecturer Emerita of Creative Writing at U-M’s Residential College, where she taught narrative journalism, memoir writing, and creative non-fiction. A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, she attended the Residential College, earning a BA in Chinese and winning a Hopwood Award for fiction. Rosegrant spent her junior year studying in Taiwan, where she also starred in a soap opera. She received an MA in journalism from Stanford, and then lived in the Boston area for 30 years, writing for Business Week and at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Rosegrant has been an avid traveler since living in the Philippines for a year at age 11. Favorite birding destinations have included Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, and the Galapagos Islands. Closer to home, she enjoys hiking, reading great books, and helping others to write effective and meaningful prose. Rosegrant retired in 2022…mainly to have more time to go birding!
– Be one of the few outsiders to explore birding-rich, remote regions of Northern Colombia led by expert local guides.
– Bird the coastal wetland and mangrove habitats of Salamanca National Park and Los Flamencos Sanctuary along Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
– Explore the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest coastal mountain range in the world and home to more than a quarter of the country’s endemic species.
– Enjoy several days of birding at El Dorado Lodge, the ProAves Foundation’s flagship lodge.
– Meet the indigenous Wayúu people in Riohacha and learn about their culture as expressed in their weaving, ceramics, vegetation, and gastronomy.
Day 1 – Barranquilla
Day 2 – Riohacha
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3 – Riohacha
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4 – Santa Marta
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5 – El Dorado Reserve
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6 – El Dorado Reserve
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7 – El Dorado Reserve
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8 – Barranquilla
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 9 – Depart
Meals: Breakfast
Additional information on this trip will be added at a later date.
Susan Rosegrant is a writer and Lecturer Emerita of Creative Writing at U-M’s Residential College, where she taught narrative journalism, memoir writing, and creative non-fiction. A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, she attended the Residential College, earning a BA in Chinese and winning a Hopwood Award for fiction. Rosegrant spent her junior year studying in Taiwan, where she also starred in a soap opera. She received an MA in journalism from Stanford, and then lived in the Boston area for 30 years, writing for Business Week and at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Rosegrant has been an avid traveler since living in the Philippines for a year at age 11. Favorite birding destinations have included Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, and the Galapagos Islands. Closer to home, she enjoys hiking, reading great books, and helping others to write effective and meaningful prose. Rosegrant retired in 2022…mainly to have more time to go birding!
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