Costa Rica: “the pure life”

Pick up at San Jose airport and transfer to your hotel.

Overnight in San Jose

Option 1: Night tour in the cloudy forest

Monteverde represents one of the naturalistic wonders of Costa Rica, which houses the cloudy forest, a large area between 600 and 1,800 meters above sea level, characterized from a bursting flora and a variegated and populous fauna (which includes, among others, the colorful quetzal, the toucan, the bell bird, the orange-bellied trogon, the golden frog, the red-eyed frog, the puma , the jaguar, the monkey. We get to know the heart of local ecosystem by visiting a reserve covered by virgin, mountainous, and pre-mountainous forest, and crossed by paths that offer guests an extraordinary natural environment.

Option 2: Sloth tour

The Sloth Sanctuary was born through the cooperation with the Caribbean Sloth Sanctuary, a foundation that shares the vision of conservation, and has worked in the rescue, conservation, reintroduction and monitoring of sloths in your natural habitat for more than 20 years. It is a natural exhibit where sloths can travel freely between trails especially created so that they can roam among the trees and the foliage. This provides a safety distance that allows observation and, at the same time, avoid as much stress on the animals as possible. These beautiful mammals have reached the sanctuary as refugees from the effects of hunting poaching, habitat destruction, orphanages, diseases and accidents among other reasons that prevent them from being reintroduced into their natural habitat. On this guided tour you will learn about the natural history of the sloths while watching about 20 individuals of the two species that exist in our country. You will also know the mission of our sanctuary and the way in which that we collaborate to protect and preserve this emblematic species for Costa Rica.

Option 3: Coffee Tour

This tour highlights the best of Costa Rican traditions and culture, illustrating how a small seed becomes one of the most famous drinks in the world: coffee. We will discover what is hidden behind each cup of this iconic Costa Rican drink (not everyone knows that one of the best coffees in the world is produced here and that the record for the highest price on the New York Stock Exchange was broken by Costa Rican coffee) The experience will also allow us to appreciate two other fundamental products for the country, which have accompanied its development since independence: sugar cane and cocoa.

Overnight in Monteverde

We resume the journey and move - crossing the Arenal lake - in the direction of the Arenal volcano, the giant that dominates the area.

Overnight in Arenal

Option 1. Hanging bridges experience

Not only birds have the privilege of appreciating the flora and fauna from the top of secular trees. Today's tour takes us along the system of suspension bridges with the accompaniment of an expert guide, not to be missed!

Option 2. Visit to the Children's Eternal Forest

visit to the Bosque Eterno de los Niños private reserve (Childrens’ Eternal Forest), a large area located between Monteverde and the Arenal Volcano which hosts a predominantly wooded landscape (evergreen forest, rainy tropical forest, and cloudy forest) furrowed by valleys, canyons, lagoons, waterfalls, streams that flow into the Atlantic as well as into the Pacific Ocean. Habitat of more than 3,000 species of plants and trees, that is 1/3 of the flora present in the country, it is home to over 400 species of birds and more than 50% of mammals living in Costa Rica. Basically, a natural Paradise that we discover with our expert guide. Along 7 kilometers path, we can admire primary and secondary forest, the volcanic soil with its fumaroles and the Pocosol Waterfalls. This area belongs to the Monteverde Conservation Association (ACM), a Costa Rican non-profit organization that for 34 years has been carrying out a tireless work of protection, rehabilitation, and reforestation, as well as conservation local ecosystem and environmental education in schools and communities in northern Costa Rica.

Overnight in Arenal

We say goodbye to Arenal and head to Guapiles where we enjoy our breakfast. Then, we continue and reach the pier on the Atlantic coast where we leave the land transport and set sail for the Tortuguero National Park, one of the protected areas with the greatest biodiversity in Central America, characterized by luxuriant nature, crossed by canals and lagoons. The park is home to around 170 species of reptiles and amphibians, 60 species of mammals and 300 species of birds, both resident and migratory. Settled in the hotel, in he afternoon we visit the village of Tortuguero (about 1,300 inhabitants), which offers an insight into the rhythms of life of the populations of the small towns on the east coast

Overnight in Tortuguero

In the morning, after breakfast, we take the guided walk along the trails near the resort, a natural area of outstanding beauty. In the afternoon: wonderful boat trip through the canals of the Tortuguero National Park to discover this unique ecosystem.

Overnight in Tortuguero

Return to San Jose with a stop in Guapiles for lunch.

Overnight in San Jose