Tours and Activities

   
 
Canopy Tours Hiking / Rain Forest Mountain Biking City / Folkloric Tours
Volcano Tours Horseback Riding Butterfly Gardens Other Activities
   
 

Mountain Biking

  Because of the geography and relief of Costa Rica there are excellent areas for mountain biking, ideal way for exploring the natural beauty of each area. You could find yourself crossing rivers or streams, going through trails and country roads, surrounded with impressive views or the lush vegetation of the tropical forest.

Mountain biking tours are offered in different touristy destinations in Costa Rica, you can take one day biking tours or a multi-day mountain ride tour across Costa Rica. Contact us for full adventure packages, combining mountain biking adventures with whitewater rafting, hiking, kayaking and other activities full of adrenaline.
   
 
   
 
Mountain biking in Costa Rica
Mountain ride across Costa Rica
Costa Rica day adventures: biking tours
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Butterfly Gardens

Butterfly gardens have been constructed in different places and due to the weather and location of Costa Rica, you will have the opportunity to see a great diversity of species and share the beauty and fascination of butterflies in all stages of their life cycle. The most renamed one are located near San Jose and in Monteverde. From San Jose, La Paz Waterfall Garden combines it in a tour where you will find five waterfalls, hiking trails, bird watching areas and a hummingbird garden.
 
 
Combo tour La Paz Waterfall Garden, Costa Rica
Costa Rica tours: butterfly gardens
Costa Rica leisure activities
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City / Folkloric Tours

If you are looking for a typical night, there are few tours and activities where you can learn about Costa Rica history and traditions, accompanied by a Costa Rican dinner. Enjoy with your family or friends a special night in Pueblo Antiguo, where you will travel through time to the past with a unique presentation, where colors of the architecture, customs and traditions come together to show the origin of Costa Rica. You also can visit Pueblo Antiguo on a day tour, where you will be guided through the old town while learning about Costa Rican history.
Also, on Wednesdays, you can visit Ram Luna Restaurant, and enjoy a great view of the Central Valley and a typical buffet dinner, the traditional “mascarada” followed by pleasant marimba music and cheerful Costa Rican typical dances. Another excellent show is the San Miguel Equestrian Show.

An option for those ones interest in history is the San Jose City tour, visiting the most important museums and historical sites of the capital. In Sarchi you will find a great variety of souvenirs and also the famous ox carts. Outside the city, if you are in the North area of Guanacaste, you will have the opportunity to visit the Guanacaste countryside seeing numerous small villages, melon farms, and cattle ranches and the folkloric town of Santa Cruz. Guaitil village is other place to visit where you will learn how the artisans manufacture and color Indigenous pottery.
 
Costa Rica National Theater: city tour
Ox cart in Sarchi
Folkloric tours from Guanacaste: Guaitil village
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Other Activities

Few places in world have many sea-turtle nesting sites as Costa Rica. During specific seasons, along the Caribbean and Pacific coast you will have the chance to observe how one of the most incredible marine creatures arrives to the beaches. Many of the nesting beaches are located inside National Parks, some of the species that you will have the opportunity to get in touch with are the leatherback, hawksbill, green, and Pacific green turtles. Turtle nesting tours can be taken in the North Pacific coast to Santa Rosa National Park, Las Baulas National Marine Park and Ostional National Wildlife Refugee, and in the Caribbean coast going to Tortuguero National Park. Packages including visits to turtle nesting areas.

Corcovado, Monteverde, San Gerardo de Dota, Caño Negro, Palo Verde National Park… the best places for abundant bird watching tours. In 51,000 sq. km Costa Rica is home of more than 850 different species of birds, and the birdwatching tours are held especially during early morning and sometimes during the evening. Contact us to plan your birdwatching package to Costa Rica .

Another way of exploring and discover beautiful places is taking an atv tour through rustic unpaved roads, passing small villages or crossing rivers.

 
Costa Rica, turtle nesting tours
Costa Rica birdwatching, Corcovado
Atv tour in Manuel Antonio
 

The most famous hot spring in Costa Rica is located in Arenal area with the comfort of Tabacon Resort & Spa and a restaurant; however you can also relax and pamper yourself in areas close to Rincon de la Vieja Volcano and in Rio Celeste area (close to Arenal), where also you can find some adventure while walking or taking a horseback ride to the area.

There are two caves waiting for you to be explored. One is located in Guanacaste, the Barra Honda National Park, which protects a vast cave system of pitted limestone (limited access). The other is close to Arenal, Venado Cave, where you will find numerous stalactites, stalagmites, coral, and chimneys (daily tours).

For those looking for real adventure, canyoning tours are available now from Arenal area, where you will rappel from the top of a waterfall down into the beautiful canyon. Also the bungee jumping will let you jump off a bridge or the ballooning trip is available from the towns of Turrialba.

Drives through some of the largest coffee and sugar cane plantations of Costa Rica, a few typical towns, churches with bizarre and beautiful architecture, souvenirs shopping, oxcarts factory, exotic orchids, various tropical flowers can be part of your day in some of the traditional one day tours available from San Jose.

 
 
Costa Rica coffee
Venado caves, Arenal
Tabacon hot springs and Spa
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Let us know which activities and destinations are you interest in and we will assist you planning and booking your own itinerary for your trip to Costa Rica.
Contact us for group adventures: whitewater,mountain biking tours, hiking, kayaking. Special mountain biking in Costa Rica: mountain ride across Costa Rica or day adventures tours.
Costa Rica leisure activities and Costa Rica tours: butterfly gardens, tobaccan hot springs, ox cart Sarchi. Enjoy a typical night and dinner in Costa Rica. Costa Rica bird watching or birdwatching tours and packages. Visit and pamper yourself at Tobaccan hot springs Costa Rica.
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