Monarch Butterflies
5 Days / 4 nights trip
One of the world’s most outstanding natural events occurs each year in North America, featuring one of its most unlikely creatures, the delicate monarch butterfly. Up to 300 million Monarch Butterflies fly from Canada and the US southward, for up to 2,500 mile and overwinter in Mexico for approximately five months without breeding until the end of March when they reach sexual maturity.
Until recently, the location of their breeding grounds remained a mystery. How an infant generation of monarch butterflies finds it anew each year is still an enigma. See their amazing migration and photograph the monarch butterfly in its natural habitat on this one of a kind Mexican expedition.
Join our eco guides in a small group expedition to experience this moving “wing” phenomenon.
Think about it?
- Why do monarchs spend the winter in Mexico’s oyamel forests and no other forests?
- While wintering in Mexico, monarch butterflies live off fat sotred during their fall migration. Where does this fat come from?
- How do biologists know that monarchs return to their same ancestral wintering ground without having been there before?
- How do temperature and sunlight affect monarchs?
- Why do monarch butterflies have few predators?
If you want to know the answers, so, join us in this unique and exclusive tour.
Itinerary
• Day 1 - Mexico City. Welcome Dinner and Overnight in Mexico City.
• Day 2 - Mexico City – Angangueo - El Rosario. From Mexico City, we travel through the central highlands. We will continue on to the picturesque mountain mining village of Angangueo to check into our hotel. We will venture out to the nearby El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary for our first encounter with the king of butterflies.
• Day 3 - Chincua - Angangueo. Drive to the Chincua Butterfly Sanctuary for our second memorable experience with the monarchs. Horses will be available for this excursión. After, we enjoy a tour of the lovely village of Angangueo.
• Day 4 - Toluca - Mexico City. Start our return trip to Mexico City with a stop in Toluca. Here we will visit Cosmo Vitral Botanical Garden, a spectacular botanical garden lit by stained glass panels created by Tolucan artist Leopoldo Flores. Overnight Mexico City. End of the trip.
• Day 5 - This day you can return back home or stay an extra day to visit the Teotihuacán Pyramids, the downtown or floating gardens.
If you need more information please contact us.
NOTE: We can also modify our itinerary according to your needs.
For further information contact us at: expeditions@ecotoursvallarta.com |
