EcoTravel Overnight Trips

Our Most Popular EcoTravel Tour

Amazon CruiseAmazon Cruise

7 Nights! Two departures per month. Call for exact dates.

Our most popular itinerary explores some of the most untouched rainforest in all of the Amazon. On an eight cabin expedition vessel, travelers venture far up some of the least inhabited rivers in the Amazon Basin for a full seven days and explore areas rarely visited, seeking out the mysterious life in the heart of the Amazon. This is the most thorough, detailed, and sophisticated trip offered in the entire Amazon and comes with rave reviews from past participants. Guides are accomplished naturalists and share creatures almost never seen by others. This trip is like being on a time machine in that one is able to visit places that have not changed for millions of years. Truly the trip of a lifetime and an easy tour for seniors and families! Fee: $3,100. Call for dates. Extensions available to the Pantanal, Iguacu Falls, and other destinations in South America. Call for details! Shorter cruises of four nights available at $1,650 per person. This a great destination showing you remote natural sites in the Amazon Basin! Truly, a trip of a lifetime; easy for seniors and families!

 Connecticut Audubon Society EcoTravel has a great selection of tours that visit many exciting spots close to home and around the globe. All of our tours promise to be special adventures, giving you the opportunity to enjoy some of the most beautiful animals and habitats in the world. CAS strives to be at the forefront of environmental education, and our EcoTravel program plays a strong part in that goal. If our dates or tours do not meet your needs, we can provide you with the itineraries of other natural history travel companies. If you choose one of their programs and sign-up through us, they will make a donation in your name towards the support of Connecticut Audubon Society’s education programs. It costs you nothing extra and helps us immensely.   

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Featured Overnight Tours

Cuba Bird Survey
March  1 – 13, 2012    13 Days!     Wait List!
March 3 – 15, 2012     13 Days!     New Departure!
CAS is offering an exclusive, U.S. led and managed, licensed birding program to Cuba. This program has a 15 year history as a conservation project focused on understanding Cuba’s importance as a wintering habitat for migratory birds. Travel with a small licensed group and local guides through rarely explored parts of Cuba, the Caribbean’s largest and most ecologically diverse island nation; home to 24 endemic birds including the world’s smallest, the Bee Hummingbird, one of the rarest woodpeckers, Fernandina’s Flicker, and the magnificent, elusive Blue-headed Quail-Dove. Leaders are Andrew Griswold (March 1 – 13) and Jay Hand (March 3 – 15). Fee: $4,750.

 

Galapagos: Islands of Discovery
March 3 – 12, 2012     10 Days!
Ecuador Highlands Pre-Trip     4 Days!
The Galapagos is the world’s greatest living laboratory for the study and observation of nature. Over the course of centuries, animals and plant life reached the islands and gradually evolved into new life forms found nowhere else on earth. Opportunities for photography are spectacular; animals showing virtually no fear of humans. Sea lions, iguanas, penguins, are within arm’s reach. Fee: $4,795 includes two nights in Quito and air from the mainland to the islands. Guest leader is TV naturalist, Scott Tucker.

  

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Connecticut Audubon Society EcoTravel
35 Pratt Street, Suite 201
Essex, CT 06426
800-996-8747
860-767-0660

Andrew Griswold, Director
agriswold@ctaudubon.org

Priscilla Wood,
EcoTravel Assistant
pwood@ctaudubon.org

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