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DAY 1. SAN JOSE
Transfer from the airport to President Hotel. Lodging.

DAY 2. SAN JOSE – REVENTAZON RIVER - TURRIALBA
Breakfast, lunch, dinner. You’ll leave San José early in the morning, driving through Braulio Carrillo National Park to the river. At our private river put-in, you’’ll start off with an exhilarating first set of rapids. Continuous rapids in this dam-controlled river will keep your adrenaline flowing! After take-out, you can shower, change and enjoy refreshments at our private rest area. Overnight at Turrialtico or Pochotel Hotel in Turrialba.

DAY 4. PACUARE RIVER – SAN JOSE
After a hearty breakfast and lodging the rafts, you’ll prepare to paddle down the Pacuare gorge past gushing waterfalls, serene pools and pounding rapids. A stop before the riverside picnic lunch lets you explore more waterfalls and nature waterslides. An adrenaline-packed afternoon running rapids like Upper and Lower Huacas, Cimarron, Dos Montañas and more, will have you cheering ecstatically. At the private take-out, showers, changing rooms, cold and hot drinks and snaks are available. Return to San José. Overnight at President Hotel.

DAY 5. SAN JOSE – TORTUGUERO
After breakfast you’ll leave to Tortuguero. Be our special guest in a banana processing and packaging plant and learn more about one of Costa Rica’s prime products (subjet to availability). Board a comfortable boat upon arrival to the port and let this extraordinarily exotic paradise enchant you, as you travel along the Tortuguero Canals. Have a one-in-a-lifetime experience in this unique place surrounded by a gread variethy of flora and fauna of breathtaking beauty. After lunch, we will visit the museum, the beach area and the small and picturesque town of Tortuguero. dinner. Lodging at Turtle Beach Lodge.

DAY 6. TORTUGUERO
Breakfast. Take your day to enjoy of optional tours or just relax. lunch and dinner. Lodging.

DAY 7. TORTUGUERO – SAN JOSE
Breakfast. You’ll departure to San José after to enjoy one of the most exotic and beautiful regions of Costa Rica, rich in flora and fauna. Lunch on the way. Lodging at President Hotel.

 

 

DAY 8. SAN JOSE – TURRIALBA VOLCANO AREA
Breakfast. Today you’ll arrive at Volcano Turrialba Lodge. After enjoy a delicious lunch we take The tour Old lava flows Traveling through the Tropical Cloud Forest, we will see Volcán Turrialba´s former lava rivers, small and new water nascent today, that run down hill, huge magma rocks. The horse ride will follow the tropical path called ¨Camino de Gobierno¨, that was used by our ancestors to travel from the Central Valley to Guápiles. Besides the natural beauty, which is the forest itself, the tourists will be able to glance at different local crops of the region, as well as all the pastures used for raising cattle. The duration of this tour will be approximately of three hours. (Options: Horse back riding, Mountain Bike or Hiking). dinner. Lodging.

DAY 9. TURRIALBA VOLCANO AREA
Breakfast. We go to Turrialba Volcano , it will allow you to explore the interior of it's crater in a journey that will take approximately one hour and a half, horse back riding in a forest typical of the Paramo (tiny vegetation). You will ascend to the peak of the volcano, where you will have the opportunity to appreciate one of the best panoramic views in this country at 3328 meters above sea level. A short list of some of the visible sites from this place includes Irazú, Barva and Poás Volcanoes, the Atlantic Cost and all of its plains, Central Valley (Valle Central) and the highest mountain chain in the country: Talamanca, located south of the Turrialba Volcano. This tour will take approximately 5 hours. Given the nature of this journey, which starts at 2800 meters above sea level, we recommend this tour be taken by people in good physical shape, age being no consideration, of course. Volcán Turrialba is the only one in Costa Rica that enables you to horse back ride or walk in its crater, being this a unique and once in a lifetime experience that we are sure will be of your complete satisfaction. lunch and dinner. Lodging.

DAY 10. TURRIALBA VOLCANO AREA
Breakfast. Early morning we go to “The Ponds” This tour can be made only by walking and the estimated time for the tour is 3 hours. Begins on the old "Camino de Gobierno"(government road) or "picada to Guapiles", that passes next to the hotel " Ruta de los Conquistadores" (the conquerors' route), the tour walks about 1 kilometer in this path following to a place known as "El Martillo' (the hammer);name that receives for its similar form to this tool. This area posseses an impressive vegetation as well as wild life, typical of the Cloudy Tropical Forest and Rainy Tropical Forest. The first of the old lava rivers of theTurrialba Volcano is skirted, leading to the National Park "Braulio Carrillo", then, following the nascent of the "Quebrada Gata" river, up to the highest ground of the national park, then, descending through the walls of the rock, where several nascent reach the piles or natural puddles, inside the old rivers of lava. Lunch and dinner in the lodge.

 

DAY 11. TURRIALBA – SAN JOSE
Breakfast. We go to Volcanic Veins, This tour is across greenfields and paths in the cloudy tropical forest. This tour is directed by a guide or a cowboy from the area, who's a great expert of the beauties and secrets of the zone. Besides the typical flora of these elevations, some fauna and several birds species can be observed such as: "Martillas", Squirrels, Hoggish Porcupine, Armadillos, Coyotes, “Manigordos", Water's Otter, "Quetzales", Hummingbirds, Toucans, "Gavilanes Tijerrilla", "Colirosa" and Bell Bird among others. This tour can be made only by walking. After lunch we’ll come back to San Jose. Logding at President Hotel.

DAY 12. SAN JOSE – GUANACASTE
Breakfast. , We’ll take the way to Guanacaste, arrive at Hacienda Guacipelín Hotel has also been hosting a steady flow of visitors, helping them enjoy the natural beauty of the ranch and the neighboring Rincón de la Vieja National Park and Volcano. Welcome coctail, after our accomodation in the rooms we take a delicious lunch, We will start our first tour in this area: Las Chorreadas Waterfall, it’s a double waterfall that joins the Blanco River and together they form a natural blue pool, an excellent place to enjoy a dip in the water or just take in the beauty of the scenery. dinner and lodging.

DAY 13. GUANACASTE
Breakfast. Early you’ll enjoy a horseback riding full day tour at the Rincón de la Vieja National Park. On the trail Las Pailas you can observe steam vents, boiling mud and water an unmistakable smell and very diverse vegetation. Oropendola Waterfall a 25 meter high waterfall with emerald-green water. It’s surrounded by a canyon covered in forest. We take a lunch after, if you’re looking for some rejuvenation, take a soak and mud bath at the natural hot springs and mud pots, it is surrounded by forest and hugged by the Colorado River, heat filtrates to the surface through a crack in the deep geological formations, and boiling mud pools are formed, which emanate a vapor with a smell of sulfur. The water and the volcanic mud have healing properties. (a fee is not included $6.00 per person). dinner and lodging.

DAY 14. GUANACASTE – SAN JOSE
Breakfast. In the morning we take an spectacular experience at Canopy Tour “Kazm Cañón” There is nothing to compare this to because it is an original idea. There is a series of platforms anchored into the walls of a canyon with cables connecting them. Our guests traverse from platform to platform and side to side of the canyon around 75 feet above the rapids. After we’ll come back to San José. Lodging at President Hotel.

DAY 15. SAN JOSE.
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport and end of our services!!!!

PACKAGE INCLUDE:

Transfer airport – hotel – airport
All land transportation are included
5 nights at San José President Hotel
1 night at Turrialba Turrialtico or Pochotel Hotel
1 night at Rios Tropicales Lodge in Pacuare Area
2 nights at Turtle Beach Lodge in Tortuguero
3 nights at Turrialba Volcano Lodge in Turrialba
2 nights at Hacienda Guachipelín Hotel in Guanacaste
Whitewater raftings
Tortuguero Canals Tour by boat
Visit to Tortuguero National Park
Tour “Old lava flows” in Turrialba
Tour “ Turrialba Volcano”
Tour “The Ponds” in Turrialba
Volcanic Veins Tour in Turrialba
Chorreadas waterfall horseback riding tour
Horseback riding tour: Rincón de la Vieja National Park, Trail “Las Pailas”, Oropendola Waterfall, Hot springs and mud pool
“Kazm Cañón” Canopy Tour
Daily Breakfast
12 lunchs & 09 dinners
Tax hotel

 

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