Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary
"We've had two trips with Discovery Tours and both were great. In February we did the long day trip from SMA to the monarch butterfly sanctuary in Michoacan. This month Dali and Chris took us and another couple to Pozos, a former silver mining town, now nearly deserted. Both trips were well organized, informative, and fun. The two men are cousins-in-law and combine their diverse talents to give their clients a first-rate experience."
Tim, Texas
Tim, Texas
Millions and millions of marvelous monarch butterflies make a journey every year in the autumn from Canada to the overwintering biosphere reserves within the trans-Mexican volcanic belt pine-oak-oyamel forest in the Mexican state of Michoacan.
These beautiful insects use their circadian clock based in their antennae for earth magnetic field orientation in order to arrive to a very specific location where their ancestors have been but where they have never been before.
Groups You Can Join
From November to March only. Please reserve in advance. You would join a small group for a VIP tour. Groups are limited to 10 people. Our vans pick you up at your home.
Price
$110 USD per person. Minimum 2 persons to do the tour.
Itinerary
This trip takes 11 hours round-trip tour. The drive from San Miguel to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, El Rosario, takes three hours and thirty minutes. We go directly to the sanctuary. We arrive at El Rosario at 11:30am.
We highly recommend taking a horse to go up to the place where the butterflies are found. Otherwise it is an exhausting, steep walk. The cost to rent a horse is $200 pesos round trip. They are very safe since they do not gallop. We spend three hours in the sanctuary including horse-back ride, time to see the butterflies and have lunch.
We head back to San Miguel at 3:00pm right after lunch and are back in San Miguel by 7:00pm.
Guide
Your guide/driver is a very knowledgeable and trustworthy English speaking guide. Our guides are experts in history, architecture, archeology and art.
Tour Includes
Transportation, English speaking tour guide, entrance fee at El Rosario.
Tour Does Not Include
Horse rental.
These beautiful insects use their circadian clock based in their antennae for earth magnetic field orientation in order to arrive to a very specific location where their ancestors have been but where they have never been before.
Groups You Can Join
From November to March only. Please reserve in advance. You would join a small group for a VIP tour. Groups are limited to 10 people. Our vans pick you up at your home.
Price
$110 USD per person. Minimum 2 persons to do the tour.
Itinerary
This trip takes 11 hours round-trip tour. The drive from San Miguel to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, El Rosario, takes three hours and thirty minutes. We go directly to the sanctuary. We arrive at El Rosario at 11:30am.
We highly recommend taking a horse to go up to the place where the butterflies are found. Otherwise it is an exhausting, steep walk. The cost to rent a horse is $200 pesos round trip. They are very safe since they do not gallop. We spend three hours in the sanctuary including horse-back ride, time to see the butterflies and have lunch.
We head back to San Miguel at 3:00pm right after lunch and are back in San Miguel by 7:00pm.
Guide
Your guide/driver is a very knowledgeable and trustworthy English speaking guide. Our guides are experts in history, architecture, archeology and art.
Tour Includes
Transportation, English speaking tour guide, entrance fee at El Rosario.
Tour Does Not Include
Horse rental.
