Batsu gardens is an excellent location for bird photographers. It is a very nicely landscaped garden located 400m up the valley slope. It's a steep drive even in a 4x4 to get up there, but the owner will also drive you. You can book it more or less for yourself and I was the only photographer there for 3 hours. It's a great place to spend hours and hours getting exactly the right shot with the right background of your chosen bird, and it was designed with photographers in mind. At the bottom of the hill the same family has an extremely nice little restaurant, the Alma de Árbol- San Gerardo de Dota. This has a very nice deck where you can munch on a sophisticated line in snacks and cakes. I had both lunch and afternoon tea there the day of my visit to Batsu gardens, and both were reasonably priced and very pleasant. Highly recommended.

We had a great tour - Marko was fantastic. We saw Resplendent Quetzals on full display, and then spent a wonderful few hours in Batsu Gardens seeing the vast amount of birds there. Highly recommended.

The diversity of birds is quite amazing and clear recommendation to visit. Nice guys (old and young) taking care, but mostly not on site For photographers: - the background for photos is clear because it is towards the other hill side - the surcharge for the photographing session is not worth paying because everybody with tickets for viewing only actually have the same photo spots (with shelter in case of rainfall). - the perches for the birds were not old in my case but somehow not very special - I was travelling alone but could not make any booking via internet for only one person. I had to book for two and claim the amount for the second person - which I then got refunded.

We bought tickets by internet. When we came at Batsugarden nobody was there. We climbed up to the birds. There was a man who gave no information. We didn't know about the free drinks. A lot of people came to the birds without paying. The place was very nice. The walks were to hard for me.

We recommend eating at the restaurant before or after visiting the gardens. We had a delicious breakfast at 9:00 then went to the gardens. We walked on the trails*(bug spray would have helped) then sat and watched exotic birds and beautiful flowers.