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Deluxe Multi Sport Adventure
Trip Highlights
- Visit the Monteverde Cloud Forest a place for nature-lovers and birders
- Experience the magnificent rainforest while enjoying a variety of activities.
- Enjoy close encounters with a variety of wildlife: birds, monkeys and iguanas.
- Action packed activities such as rafting, biking and rappelling
- Treetop walk through cloudforest canopy on suspension bridges
Details
• 9-days, 8 nights.
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Trip begins and ends in San Jose, Costa Rica
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8 nights in comfortable hotels and lodges
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All meals included as noted on itinerary
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Tour Cost
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$3,175 per person (4-8 guests)
Departures
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You pick!
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1 - Depart / Arrive San José
Upon arrival in Juan Santamaria International Airport in San José , you will be met by your guide outside the customs and immigration area at the airport. Your guide will transfer you to the hotel where you will enjoy a welcome dinner and trip orientation.
• Overnight: Grano de Oro Hotel
• Meal: Dinner
Day 2- San José / Sarapiquí Area
After a hearty breakfast and trip briefing by your guide, the journey begins Today hike to Botos Lagoon in Poás Volcano National Park which is home to the Poás Volcano, one of the world's largest geysers with an awesome crater over 1.5 km. wide. Afterwards, you will head to the Waterfall Garden for lunch followed by an afternoon hike and a visit to their well known butterfly and hummingbird gallery.
• Overnight: Hotel Sueño Azul Resort
• All meals included
Day 3- Sarapiquí / La Fortuna
Today will be a full day of adrenaline! You will get wet while white-water rafting on the Sarapiqui River (class II-III). This is the perfect activity for anyone with a sense of adventure and fun. This section is ideal for first time rafters. You will be able to view the scenic presence and singular beauty of the unexplored humid tropical forest while floating down the river with a delicious picnic lunch besides the river. Enjoy a scenic drive to the area of the Arenal Volcano stopping en route to spot Iguanas. During the afternoon, hike through the Sueño Azul forest and pasture lands to finally relax at their beautiful waterfalls. Hotel Sueño Azul Resort has a unique rustic elegance style where good taste and nature stand out. It is a magnificent place to rest and detoxify both the mind and body.
• Overnight: Tabacón Grand Spa Thermal Resort
• All meals included
Day 4- La Fortuna
They enjoy the canyoning (rappelling) during the morning, followed by lunch. Enjoy a free afternoon at the hotsprings as well as the hotels surroundings.
• Overnight: Tabacón Grand Spa Thermal Resort
• All meals included
Day 5- La Fortuna
This morning, bike where the forest, Arenal Volcano and the lake meet and lead through a beautiful setting. In the late afternoon, enjoy kayaking before your visit the Eco Termales Hot Springs which is owned and operated by the Hidalgo Family on a private property with spring heated by the volcano. Here you will spend a few hours relaxing with few crowds because the hot springs are not open to the public. On our way to the hotel, you may have the chance to experience flaming boulders from the Arenal Volcano.
• Overnight:Tabacón Grand Spa Thermal Resort
• All meals included
Day 6- Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
Early today take a morning drive to Monteverde. After enjoying lunch at a local restaurant, experience the Sky Trek, a system of trails, suspension bridges, and zip lines that offer the opportunities to observe and appreciate tropical vegetation above the canopy.
• Overnight: Hotel El Establo
• All meals included
Day 7 - Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
During the morning explore Monteverde Private Reserve while hiking through their world famous cloud forest trails. Here you fill find more than 100 species of mammals including 5 species of cats, over 400 species of birds including 30 kinds of hummingbirds, tens of thousands of insect species and 2,500 species of plants. The area is acclaimed as one of the most outstanding wildlife refuges in the New World Tropics. After lunch, you will enjoy a nice horseback riding experience which offers so many great mountain views as it’s considered a paradise for horseback riding in Costa Rica.
• Overnight: Hotel El Establo
• All meals included
Day 8- Sarchi / San José
On your way to San José you will stop at Sarchi, Costa Rica’s main artisan town. Upon entering Sarchi, enjoy countless souvenir and furniture stores emerging along both sides of the road, each offering handmade artifacts including elaborately painted bowls and trays, natural wood serving utensils, tables, jewelry boxes and carvings. Lunch will be served at a local favorite restaurant before heading back to the hotel. Tonight enjoy a special farewell dinner.
• Overnight: Grano de Oro Hotel
• All meals included
Day 9- San José / Depart
Early morning transfer to Juan Santamaria International Airport for your international flight.
• Meal: Breakfast
What’s Included
- • Expert leadership
- • Entrance fees to parks and reserves
- • Accommodations based on double occupancy
- • Meals as per the above itinerary inclusive of restaurant staff tips
- • Cooler with ice, bottled water, soft drinks and snacks in the vehicle at all times
- • Services of Secret Passage Costa Rica guide/drivers throughout
- • Ground transportation
- • Airport transfers for group
- • Internal airfare
What’s Not Included
- • Round-trip international airfare
- • $26 Costa Rica airport departure tax
- • Soft drinks, beer, wine and spirits
- • Tips for staff such as guides and drivers (tipping recommendations are provided in our pre-departure booklet)
- • Fees for passport, visas, immunizations and insurance
- • Meals and expenses en route to Costa Rica
- • Laundry, phone and other items of a personal nature
- • Cost of hospitalization and evacuation if necessary
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