Hotel Quelitales

Introduction

Hotel Quelitales is a small boutique hotel surrounded by the beautiful cloud forest scenery of the lower parts of the Talamanca mountains. Hotel Quelitales not only offers a fantastic natural setting full of birds it also offers a great exclusive atmosphere, with private bungalows and suites plus an excellent gourmet restaurant. Hotel Quelitales is located a little above the small coffee-growing community of Cachi in the green Orosi valley at only 1 hour driving from San José. Hotel Quelitales is a good base to explore the nearby birding hotspots offering a wide variety of habitats and bird species.

Facilities

Hotel Quelitales offers 8 suites and 3 bungalows. All are private unites nicely integrated in the hotel garden surrounded by lush vegetation and come with a coffeemaker and fresh locally grown organic coffee. All units have private bathroom with complimentary biodegradable toiletries and a minibar with free snacks. Suites are a bit more spacious and all (except one) have a private wooden balcony with relaxing chairs and an outside rain shower. The suites farthest away from the restaurant – reception area have stunning views of the Doña Ana waterfall. The restaurant serves delicious organic food making using of fresh local ingredients and are prepared by the friendly owner José and his staff. José’s does a great job sharing his both passions: food and birding. Hotel Quelitales has some forest trail and have a bird hide from where in the late afternoon Scaled Antpitta and Green-fronted Lancebill often can be seen. Hotel Quelitales has several hummingbird feeders and a fruit feeder attracting colorful birds especially in the early mornings

Birding and wildlife attractions

460 species of birds have been recorded in the Hotel Quelitales property. Hotel Quelitales is a very productive birding site with great birding on the hotel grounds offering some species that are very hard elsewhere. Scaled Antpitta is their iconic bird, a species that is extremely hard to see anywhere in the world that at Hotel Quelitales is quite reliable at their birdhide. Other nearby sites offer great birding in a wide variety of habitats.

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Target bird species

Scaled Antpitta: this is one of the most secretive and hard birds to see in Costa Rica. The staff at Hotel Quelitales has succeeded in the last years to train a couple of these birds to come out of the thick vegetation by offering them earthworms at their birdhide.
Hummingbirds: naming one single particular target hummingbird in the gardens of Hotel Quelitales would do the place injustice. In one morning one could expect up to 10 different species including some species that are very hard to see elsewhere like Black-bellied Hummingbird, the endemic Coppery-headed Emerald, the peculiar Green-fronted Lancebill and rare White-bellied Mountain-gem.
Cabani’s Ground Sparrow: this is one of the mainland endemic bird species of Costa Rica.. Cabani’s Ground Sparrow won’t be seen on the grounds of Hotel Quelitales, but can be found in one the coffee plantations of Cachi at 10 minutes driving from the hotel. A local guide can be hired to help you search for this bird.

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