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WELCOME TO
COSTA RICA!
Located on the land bridge between North and
South America, Costa Rica features an impressive diversity of flora
and fauna within a relatively small area. A progressive system of
National Parks, Reserves and other areas under private protection
offer visitors the opportunity to explore cloud and rain forests,
active volcanoes, marshlands, rivers and miles of unspoiled beaches.
Next a tour program is presented which includes a brief description of
each tour, operation dates, prices per person and the minimum of
participants required for each one. HALF DAY
TOURS
CITY TOUR
One of the best introductions to Costa Rica’s
history and culture, this tour will allow you to visit a wide variety
of historical sites, city parks and residential areas of our city.
Price per person: USD $
24.00
Includes: transportation, guide and entrance
fees to the National Theater and the National Museum. Operation dates:
Daily. Minimum of passengers: 2. Please note that on Sundays the
National Theater is closed. On Mondays, the National Museum is closed.
Therefore, only one of the attractions would be visited in those days.
THE
BUTTERFLY FARM
The Butterfly Farm recreates the world of the
butterfly, where each species depends on a different type of plant for
survival. Gardens in the
farm’s screened atrium are full of host plants for dozens of
butterflies and, as you walk through, the air is alive with flying
splashes of colors. Price per person: USD $ 25.00
Includes: transportation, guided visit, and
entrance fee. Operation dates: Daily.
No minimum of passengers is required. COFFEE
BRITT TOUR
The coffee tour of Cafe Britt is a multimedia
presentation using actors to describe coffee production from the
farming of the trees to the beverages we all know.
The tour begins in an actual coffee plantation.
Afterwards visitors learn the history and processing of coffee.
The audience is invited to the roasting facility to see the
final stages of coffee preparation prior to packaging for home
consumption. Most of us coffee drinkers know very little about the
history of coffee, or how it is grown and processed. The Café Britt
tour remedies the situation, with a close-up look at the plants,
drying roasting and official tasting, an experience that will make
your next cup of coffee taste all that much richer. Price per person: USD $ 25.00
Includes:
transportation, guide and entrance fees. Operation dates: Daily.
No minimum of passengers is required. ONE DAY
TOURS
RAINFOREST
AERIAL TRAM
Just about an hour from downtown San José, the
Aerial Tram allows people of all ages to enter the canopy as easily as
taking a ski lift. A
guided forest walk with a naturalist introduces the Rainforest and
prepares you for the canopy experience. Once aboard the open tramcar,
you’ll float silently through the forest, from ground level to high
in the treetops. The tram is not a wildlife viewing tour. It is a
holistic view of nature’s most complex creations. Price per person: USD $
79.00
Includes: ground transportation, entrance fee
to the tram, lunch and a bilingual naturalist guide.
Operation dates: Daily. Minimum of passengers: 2 THE
HIGHLIGHTS TOUR
Around 7:00 a.m. you will be picked up at one
of the main hotels in San José en route to Poás Volcano. On the way
stop for a Costa Rican country-style breakfast. Take pictures in a
coffee field, walk around and find out about coffee harvesting and
processing. Upon arrival at Poás Volcano, take a pleasant walk
through a cloud forest trail leading to a lookout point at the main
crater. Later, stop at La Paz Waterfall and San Fernando Waterfall
(excellent opportunity to walk behind the waterfall and see
hummingbirds). Light
rainforest trail walk, buffet lunch and free time at Selva Verde
Jungle Lodge. Next embark
on a relaxing jungle river cruise in a comfortable covered boat. Drive
through the stunning jungles of Braulio Carrillo National Park to
arrive in San José between 5:00-6:00 p.m. Price per person: USD $79.00
Includes: transportation, entrance fees,
breakfast, lunch, boat tour at Rio Sarapiqui and guide. Operation
dates: daily. Hours: 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. POAS
VOLCANO AND SARCHI OXCART FACTORY
Ninety minutes from San José, visitors
standing at the main crater’s edge of Poás get a close-up look at
what the awesome power of a volcano can do. Water in the depths of the
crater is, at times, a shimmering blue-green, at others, a sulfurous,
bubbling cauldron. Steam escapes from the many fumaroles, often mixing
with clouds to hide the scene before you. Nearby a well-developed
trail leads uphill through dwarf cloud forest, to Botos Lagoon - an
ancient crater now filled with water and surrounded by lush
vegetation. After taking
lunch in a local restaurant, you will continue to the picturesque
village of Sarchí, cradle of wood crafting and decorating in Costa
Rica. And particularly known for its production of colorful ox-carts.
In any of the numerous gift shops you will also find an astounding
array of bowls, boxes, toys, statues and jewelry, as well as items in
cloth, glass, bronze and other materials. Price per person: USD $
58.00
Includes: ground transportation, lunch,
entrance fee to the volcano and guide. Operation dates: Daily. Minimum
of passengers: 2 POAS
VOLCANO & WATERFALL GARDENS
This tour combines the visit to Poas volcano
with the Waterfall Gardens. At La Paz Waterfall Gardens, visitors have
the unique opportunity to reach out and touch the impressive and
mesmerizing cascades of five magnificent waterfalls flowing through
rain and cloud forest. A series of observation decks built on the
cliffs of a verdant canyon are perfect places to take memorable photos
or simply sit back and feel the falls’ refreshing mist. The park has
beautifully maintained low-impact trails that wind through the largest
butterfly observatory in the world and past a fascinating garden
teeming with curious hummingbirds. From there, the trail continues,
dipping and curving along the banks of a pristine river and past the
falls. A minivan returns guest to the main building a short drive
uphill. There, a charming welcome center, gift shop and buffet-style
restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating await. Price per person: USD $64.00. Includes: transportation, entrance fees,
naturalist guide and lunch. Operation dates: Operated daily with a
minimum of 2 participants. Hours:
8:15–4:00 p.m. VOLCAN
IRAZU/LANKESTER GARDENS AND OROSI VALLEY
Dominating the skyline over the city of Cartago,
an hour an a half southeast of San José, Irazú is Costa Rica’s
highest volcano at 11.260 feet. The paved road ends a few hundred feet
from the summit, where trails circle the main crater. After seeing the
volcano, you will visit Lankester Gardens, where over 800 species of
native and exotic orchids highlight a fabulous plant collection in an
outdoor jungle garden. In the mid-afternoon you will also visit the
picturesque Orosi Valley, site of Costa Rica’s earliest colonial
settlement and one of the most important coffee producing areas of the
country. Price per person: USD $ 62.00
Includes: transportation, lunch, entrance fee
and guide. Operation
dates: Daily. Minimum of passengers: 2 ARENAL
VOLCANO
Sitting just north of the Tilarán Mountains,
Arenal is a spectacularly beautiful, cone-shaped volcano rising out of
the flat San Carlos Plains. It
is the most active volcano in the country and the frequent, loud booms
can be heard as far away as Monteverde.
Even in the daytime, it is a very special experience to see
clouds of ash and smoke billowing into the sky, from Arenal's crater.
On clear nights, spectators are occasionally treated to a real
natural fireworks display, when an eruption of lava and burning rocks
explodes into the air and showers down the cinder cone.
Even when it's overcast, the rumblings, venting and molten lava
glowing eerily through the clouds, make for stirring spectacle. We offer a trip that visit one of the hotels of
the area located in front of the volcano. Price per person: USD $ 75.00
Includes: transportation, lunch, use of
Montaña de Fuego’s premises (swimming pool with mineral hot water,
wet bar, 2 Jacuzzis and a sauna), welcome cocktail, walk by the hotel
trail, dinner. Operation
dates: Daily. Minimum of passengers: 2 TORTUGA
ISLAND
After the 90 minute bus ride to Puntarenas, you’ll
be welcomed aboard with refreshments. A seemingly endless supply of
tropical fruit is served, as you sail through the scenic gulf islands
to where blue green waters lap the white sand beach of Tortuga.
Disembark for a day of relaxation, swimming and beach
volleyball. Sit down to a gourmet picnic buffet served under the
swaying palm trees, before the mid-afternoon return to port. Price per person: USD $
89.00
Includes: ground transportation to Puntarenas,
catamaran to the island, light breakfast, lunch and guide. Operation
dates: Daily. No minimum of persons is required. SARAPIQUI
RIVER RAFTING
After an early morning pick-up from your hotel,
drive through impressive rainforest. Breakfast en route at Sarapiqui
in a typical Costa Rican restaurant.
This free-flowing river has its origins in clear mountain
streams, and remains one of Costa Rica´s purest river experiences. In
its headlong plunge down the northern slope of Poás
Volcano, the Sarapiquí River is characterized by spectacular
waterfalls. Then, as it
leaves the foothills, the river offers exciting Class III white water
rafting. A delicious
lunch is served beside the river. Price per person: USD $
70.00
Includes: ground transportation to and from the
river, life vest and security helmet, bilingual guide-instructor,
breakfast and lunch. Operation dates: Daily. No minimum of passengers
is required. MULTI DAY
TOURS
TORTUGUERO
NATIONAL PARK
(3 days/2 nights) Located along Costa Rica’s northeast coast,
on the lowest, wettest land in the country, the rainforest of
Tortuguero are protected from the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow beach
strand and from the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow beach strand and from
encroaching civilization by their isolation.
Small planes can land on the beachside airstrip, a 35 minute
flight from San José. Otherwise,
Tortuguero is a 4 to 5 hour journey, first by road to Limón Province,
then by boat on the famous Tortuguero Canals. During your stay, explore the calm,
forest-lined rivers and man-made channels by small boat.
It is common to see monkeys, sloths, iguanas, caiman, turtles
and an abundance of colorful tropical birds.
Tortuguero´s beaches are the most important nesting site in
the western half of the Caribbean for Green Sea Turtle (July to
October). Not to surprising, then, that the name Tortuguero
is derived from the Spanish word for turtle. Price per person based on double occupancy: USD $ 251.00
Includes: ground and boat transportation, 2
nights at Pachira Lodge or similar, all meals during the tour (from
breakfast on day 01 to lunch on day 03), bilingual guide. MANUEL
ANTONIO PARK
(3 days/2 nights) Scenic Manuel Antonio National Park is a
perfect combination of warm Pacific waters and rainforest that grows
right down to the three white sand beaches.
Nature trails take you along the beach strand and over a
forested, rocky promontory. It
is probably one of the easiest places in Costa Rica to see wildlife,
particularly sloths, coatimundis, agoutis, White-faced Monkeys and the
tiny Squirrel Monkey. There is no development inside the park but,
along the 7 kilometers (4 miles) of clifftop road leading to Manuel
Antonio are dozens of small hotels surrounded by trees and lush
tropical gardens. Price per person based on double occupancy: USD $ 210.00
Includes: round trip transfers
hotel-airport-hotel (for local flights), round trip flights San José-Quepos;
round trip transfers from the local airport to the hotel in Manuel
Antonio and 2 nights lodging in Costa Verde in a studio room. NOTES
Multi-day packages does not include:
INFO -
RESERVATIONS
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