DURATION

TOUR

 ONE DAY

WHITE WATER RAFTING

7 HRS +/-

IRAZU VOLCANO NATIONAL PARK, LANCKASTER GARDENS AND OROSI VALLEY

8 HRS +/-

POAS VOLCANO NATIONAL PARK AND CASCADE PARK

11 HRS +/-

12 HRS +/-

8 HRS +/-

6 HRS +/-

10 HRS +/-

4 HRS +/-

10 HRS +/-

WHITE WATER RAFTING

TOUR DESCRIPTION

Pacuare River:

The Pacuare river with its rapids crosses the tropical "primary" forest, not touched by man: eighteen miles (30 kilometers) full of tropical life that appears unexpectedly will sep you on a continuous look but for the next rapids which appear. Through the dense wall of vegetation on the banks you will be looking for the life of the forest and observing the "raucous" flight of birds.

OPTIONS

One day Tour: (cost US$ 88.00 per person)

Difficulty: class III & IV
Distance:  30 kilómetros/18 miles
Number of rapids:  38
Approximate length of time on the river: 4 hours
• Minimum age: 12 years

Two day Tour: (Cost US$ 250.00 per person)

One night in tents in Pacuare Campgrounds

Difficulty: Class III & IV
Distance: 22 miles/36 kilometers
Number of rapids: 49
Approximate length of time on the river: 4 hours
Minimum age: 12 years

The two days tour includes the experience of spending the night in a camp ground in comfortable tents equipped with wood floors, bathrooms and showers, fully equipped dining room and an excellent view of the Pacuare River. You will enjoy an excellent supper.

Note: There are special prices for groups

INCLUDED

• Transportation to and from your hotel and the Pacuare River.
• Equipment (helmets, live safer jackets, oars)
• Bilingual guide
• Security Kayak
• Breakfast and lunch (For tour 1)
• Two breakfast, lunch and supper (For tour 2)

RECOMMENDED THAT YOU BRING

• A complete change of light weight comfortable clothing
• Sturdy walking shoes
• Hat
• Insect repellent
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Binoculars
• Bath suit
  
  A towel available at the Hotel Rosa del Paseo Front Desk (Do not take one from the room)
• A plastic bag for wet clothes and towels

• Statement of proper conduct in the National Parks

One of the largest craters in the world will carry you away to a moonscape land surrounded by the green area of tropical zones. With a little luck if its clear morning you will be able to see the two oceans (with only a slight movement of your head) from the top of Irazú. This is the famous sacred mountain of the earliest natives.

A visit to Lankaster Gardens offers you the most all inclusive collection of tropical plants and orchids from Costa Rica's diverse floral culture. This is a place you must visit to enjoy and learn about the bio diversity of the Central America tropics.

The tour included shorter visits to the plantation of coffee, chayote (a vegetable) and other tropical crops along the way. Hidden in the distance the vast open area of the Reventazon river basing waits for you as well as the historic town of Orosi with its ancient church. The church is now a museum of 250 years builtt by Spanish monks of colonial times. You will pass by the lake wicht forms the Cachi dam to complete this scenario of multiple landscapes, tropical life and history.

• Transport in an air-conditioned bus.
• Entrance to Irazu Volcano
• Entrance to Lankaster Gardens
• Lunch

• Bilingual Guide

• Light weight comfortable clothing
• Sturdy walking shoes
• Hat
• Insect (mosquito) repellent
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Binoculars
• Rain coat in the rainy season (may/december)
• Statement of proper conduct in the National Parks

POAS VOLCANO NATIONAL PARK AND CASCADE PARK

The Poas Volcano is considered one of the most spectacular and most beautiful in the world. No mere description can equal the extraordinary experience you will have in this magical place where is full of enchantment of tropical nature in its most beautiful setting.

The tour will take you through the picturesque green countryside of Central Valley, small agricultural towns, extensive sugar cane and coffee fields, modern's hot houses of tropical plants for export and superb milk cattle farms form an unusual landscape.

The Cascade Park with a butterfly and hummingbird's garden, a path through the tropical bush and several small and beautiful cascades will surprise you in your walking tour.

• Transportation in an air conditioned bus from your Hotel.

• Entrance to the Poas Volcano National Park
• Entrance to the Cascade Park
• Lunch buffet style at Cascade Park
• Bilingual Guide

• Rain coat in the rainy season (may/december)
• Light weight comfortable clothing
• Sturdy walking shoes
• Hat
• Insect (mosquito) repellent
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Binoculars
• Statement of proper conduct in the National Parks

The trip begins at the door of your Hotel and takes you through the picturesque scenario of the Central Valley and mountains which descend to the edge of the Pacific to the port.

On the Island you will enjoy the luxury of a cruise ship 96 feet long, two storeys, air conditioned salon. Or perhaps you will be on a modern Catamaran which will take you on this memorable adventure to the famous Tortuga Island.

The magical hidden Island waits for you!!! White sands, crystal clear warm tropical waters a real Pirates paradise is there!

Don't miss it!

Tortuga Island & Bay Islands in Catamaran:
cost US$85.00 per person
Duration: Approximately 11 hours

• Transportation in an air conditioned bus from your Hotel
• Round trip either in Catamaran or the Sea Breeze
• Barbecue style lunch on Tortuga Island
• Bilingual Guide
• Welcome Cocktail
• Tropical fruits & non alcoholic beverages

• Light weight comfortable clothing
• Sturdy walking shoes
• Hat
• Insect (mosquito) repellent
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Binoculars
• Bath suit

• Towels. Ask for them at the front desk of Rosa del Paseo Hotel. Please don't take the towels from your room.

• Statement of proper behavior in the National Parks

We will come for you very early to take you to La Fortuna de San Carlos. The tour begins an soon as you get into the bus. At you look out the Windows, you will see a landscape typical of the Valle Central green hills, coffee plantations, and small towns crouched up against the mountains. Then suddenly the vast panorama of the northern plains opens of before your eyes.

You will travel around Arenal lake and see the Arenal Volcano, the most active and spectacular volcanic "cone" in Costa Rica. Trembles incessantly and once in while lava spills.

In the afternoon you can enjoy the warm springs of Tabacon. The river of warm waters comes down from the Arenal Volcano and is transformed into scenario of waterfalls, river branches and pools.

At night there wait you the most extraordinary spectacle. This colossal volcano offers the viewer orange lines mark the descent of igneous rocks and rumbling fires unfold against the sky crowning the mountain as by magical devices. Afterwards, you will return to the hotel in your very comfortable bus.

• Transportation from your Hotel in an air conditioned bus.

• Entrance to Tabacon warm springs
• Breakfast in a restaurant along the way
• Lunch
• Supper (Dinner)
• Bilingual Guide

• Light weight comfortable clothing
• Sturdy walking shoes
• Hat
• Insect (mosquito) repellent
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Statement of proper behavior in the National Parks
• Binoculars (optional)
• Bathing suit

The bus will take you down the highway to the Caribbean which crosses the Braulio Carrillo National Park for half an hour. This is truly spectacular scenario typical of the tropical rain forest. 

In this tour you have the best combination of activities: the Canopy Tour-a ride down the Sarapiqui River as it descends calmly through the northern plains and a 30 minutes horseback ride. An unforgettable tropical adventure.

In your journey you will experience the habitat of thousand of tropical plants and diverse animal life. Afterwards you shall enjoy a delicious lunch in a private ranch.

• Transportation from your Hotel in an air conditioned bus.
• Canopy Tour
• Boat ride down the Sarapiqui River
• Horseback ride
• Lunch

• Rain coat (in rainy season may/december)
• Light weight comfortable clothing
• Sturdy walking shoes
• Hat
• Insect (mosquito) repellent
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Binoculars
  
• A towel. Please ask for your towels at the front desk. It is forbidden to remove towels from room.
• Statement of proper behavior in the National Parks

INBIO Park is the gateway to the Costa Rica National Parks and protected areas. Scientists and guides who are specialist guide you through the complex fascinating plant/animal setting of tropical Central America.

While wandering through the pathways you will find a vast composition of flora and fauna even the habitat of forest animals, before and in the mountains and in the drier areas. You will see deers, iguanas, butterflies, frogs. Slots and turtles- all almost within reach of your hand. The organic farm and the lagoon (whose depths we shall see through a window beneath the water along with a video on the bio. Diversity of Costa Rica) complete the tour to a tropical world.

After lunch in the INBIO Park restaurant "Heliconias" we shall travel for 50 minutes to a private farm in Braulio Carrillo National Park where the rain forest cable-car is located.

After a 15 minutes video an expert naturalist guide escorts us on a 45 minutes walk trough pathways where we learn about nature as it is at the base of the forest. Later we shall ride in the comfortable cable cars through the forest canopy and its hanging gardens. What unforgettable experience learning about the complexity and beauty of a fragile and diverse eco-system which we MUST conserve!

• Transportation by bus from your Hotel to INBIO and the Cable Car

• Entrance to INBIO Park and regular tour

• Entrance and "standard" tour regular by cable car in the Caribbean Rain forest.

• Lunch
• Bilingual Guide
• Coffee break on the Cable Car

Please verify at the front desk whether you are tourist at your hotel or from one of the nearby hotels

• Rain coat
• Light weight comfortable clothing
• Sturdy walking shoes
• Hat
• Insect (mosquito) repellent
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Binoculars
• Statement of proper conduct in the National Parks

ORIGINAL FOUR IN ONE

This tour includes a visit to coffee plantations, Poas Volcano National Park (Where you can visit the museum) the majestic active crater and Botos lagoon at the top of the volcanic structure.

A tour of the "Parque (Park) de la Paz" will enable you to see the La Paz waterfalls, "Blanca" and "San Fernando". After lunch you will continue on to Sarapiquì river where you will visit a garden of butterflies and frogs.

This spectacular tour ends going by through the Braulio Carrillo National Park (45,899 hectares)

• Transportation in air-conditioned bus
• Entrance to Poas Volcano National Park
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Entrance to Butterfly garden
• Snacks

• Rain coat (in the rainy season may- december)
• Light weight comfortable clothing
• Sturdy walking shoes
• Hat
• Insect (mosquito) repellent
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Binoculars
• Statement of proper conduct in the National Parks

SAN JOSE CITY TOUR

This is a tour of the main attractions of the city of San Jose: The city park "La Sabana"; the national theater, magnificent cultural an arquitecture jewel; the plaza de la Cultura; the National Museum; The University of Costa Rica Campus.

The guide will provides you with a detailed account of the history of Costa Rica: How San Jose became the country's Capital; the republican period; the civil war; the dissolution of the army by Jose Figueres Ferrer, and much more!

• Transportation from your Hotel
• Entrance to the National Theater
• Entrance to the National Museum
• Bilingual Guide

• Rain coat (in the rainy season may- december)
• San Jose City map
• Light weight comfortable clothing
• Conformable shoes
• Camera

CARARA BIOLOGICAL PRESERVE