Costa Rica Tours, Ltd.
                    Specialists in Costa Rica and Panama

If you are looking for an active vacation that is invigorating and relaxing at the same time, then this tour is for you!

Tour Highlights:

  • Tour of Poas Volcano

  • La Paz Waterfall Gardens:  guided rainforest hike to five waterfalls , Butterfly Garden and Aviary

  • Choice of sport  activities at Hacienda Pozo Azul: canopy/zipline, white water rafting, horseback riding or mountain biking

  • Bat Tour at Tirimbina Reserve (optional)

  • Thermal heated Tabacon Hot Springs and Spa at Arenal

  • Handicraft shopping in Sarchi

  • Dinner & Folk Dance Show in San Jose

Daily Itinerary:

Day 1: Arrive in San Jose and transfer to Poas Volcano Lodge in the Heredia Highlands.

Day 2:  You start the day with a guided tour of Poas Volcano, where you can walk to the rim of this active volcano and look into its one-quarter mile wide crater, the largest in the world. You continue on to La Paz Waterfall Gardens where your naturalist guide will lead a hike in the rainforest to five awesome waterfalls.  You also see their butterfly garden and aviary.   Afterwards, you continue north to the Sarapiqui Lowlands, near the border of Nicaragua. In the evening, you can take an optional Bat Tour in Tirimbina Reserve.

Day 3: Today is for sports adventures at Hacienda Pozo Azul. You have a choice of two activities: whitewater rafting, horseback riding, Canopy/zipline, mountain biking, , or rappeling.

Day 4: In the morning, you have a private transfer across the San Carlos Lowlands to Arenal.  You will stop in the town of  La Fortuna to catch glimpses of small town life and have lunch.  In the afternoon you relax at Tabacon Hot Springs & Spa.  Enjoy the many thermal pools heated by Arenal Volcano, and optional spa treatments.  In the evening, you have a buffet dinner and perhaps will see lava flowing down the volcano. 

Day 5: Ready for more sports?  In the morning choose one activity:  canopy/zipline, a horsesback ride to La Fortuna Waterfall, rappeling, or guided rainforest walk at Arenal Hanging Bridges. This environmentally sensitive complex of trails and suspension bridges brings you as close as you ever could hope to get to the birds, the flowers and the lush vegetation of the primary rainforest. From the bridges along the trail you can look down at the streams and rainforest canopy below and enjoy the view of Arenal Volcano.  You have the afternoon free to further explore Arenal or just relax at your hotel pool and spa.

Day 6: Today you return to San Jose with a stop in Sarchi, the crafts capital of Costa Rica. You can buy wood and leather goods, jewelry, painted carts and leather rockers that can be boxed to take with you on the plane. In the evening enjoy a typical Costa Rican dinner and folk dance show at a restaurant with a magnificent view of the Central Valley below.

Day 7:  Private transfer to the San Jose Airport for your trip home.

COST: $1795 per person in double occupancy ($295 single supplement) includes 6 hotel nights; xx meals; 3 sports activities; entrance fees at Poas Volcano, La Paz Waterfall Gardens and Tabacon Hot Springs; part-time naturalist guide/driver; airport and ground transfers in A/C motor coach.  Cost does not include airfare or airport exit tax (currently $26). 

Costa Rica Tours, Ltd.
info@costaricatoursltd.com
704.541.8680