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Monarch Butterflies of Mexico
$2,895 per person, based on double occupancy. Single supplement: $545.
Trip Details
Take $500 off tours on January 10-15, 2010 & January 18-23, 2010.
Discover how to save up to $500 on other departures.
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Trip Overview
One of the world’s most astounding natural events occurs each year in North America, featuring one of its most unlikely creatures, the delicate monarch butterfly. Every November, millions of monarchs set flight on a remarkable 2,500-mile journey from the northeastern United States and Canada to their ancestral wintering grounds in the volcanic mountains of central Mexico.
Tours are offered by WWF's travel partner, Natural Habitat Adventures.
Trip Itinerary
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.
Visit three butterfly sanctuaries northeast of Mexico City. At each one you'll find an almost surreal sight: Millions of monarchs cover the tall oyamel fir trees in a delicate, quivering black and orange blanket. Boughs bend beneath their numbers, though each weighs less than half an ounce. As the sun warms their parchment-thin wings, the butterflies take to the air in a whirling cloud of color and, yes, sound.
Mexico’s sanctuaries are the only place in the world where you can actually hear butterflies’ wings beating. The beauty of the butterflies is so ethereal that many Mexicans still hold the Aztec belief that the souls of the dead are reborn as monarchs.
For more information, visit Natural Habitat Adventures' website or call 800-543-8917.
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