Unique things to do in Costa Rica

If you want to get to know San Jose as a local and taste its flavors, nothing could get you closer to authentic San Jose than walking through the streets and the markets with a local as they show you the anecdotes and outs of daily life. On this experience you’ll get up close and personal with Costa Rican life, through local food, history, culture and even the herbal remedies of folk medicine. Enjoy a hands-on lesson on exotic plants, fruits, vegetables, and more in the Borbon Market. From here, we’ll take a stroll through the vibrant Central Market, tasting caldosa (ceviche) and continuing along local roads towards the the Cathedral, National Theater, and the beautiful parks Morazan, will help you get to know the country and its rich history and from this experience, you’ll have another sense , taste to get more in tune with San Jose. For the end visit Mr. Sloth Coffee Shop a store where you will find gourmet coffees and chocolates produced by women, in this special place tasting and learn to prepare coffee, enjoy a tamal , cooked by local families and wrapped in a banana leaf, learn how to make plantain empanadas with cheese, and try our famous Agua de Sapo, make with sugar cañe, lemon and ginger.

Staying in San Jose and looking for a fun, safe and inclusive night out? This 3-hour BarCrawl in San Jose everything you need to have a great time, live our nightlife as a true local and safely moving throughout one of our most popular, best-known bar districts. During this tour, we will visit the most popular bars and clubs in town! Each of the bars will have a different atmosphere than the last. Week schedule: - Wed: Local dish dinner & beer + cocktail. - Thu, Fri & Sat: Dance & drink. Come out and meet people from all over at an affordable price! It will be better than to stay in your room ;) Our customers speak for ourselves, check out our reviews below! ***If you wish to request safe roundtrip private transportation to and from the tour for an added cost, please reach out to us after booking with your hotel address or location and we will provide a quote per person. --- Note: This tour embraces diversity and inclusion in all of its forms, and does not discriminate based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or nationality. We welcome everyone to join us and experience the many different cultures that may come together in any or all of our groups/tours. We also expect that all of our guests share our commitment to respect diversity and inclusion.

We will leave from the meeting point that you chose (there are 3) to the Poás Volcano National Park, which is 1 hour away, when we arrive at the parking lot we will walk 20 minutes to reach the Poás Volcano Crater, which has the largest geyser in the world, we will be there for about 30 minutes, then we will walk 15 minutes to the Botos lagoon (we will be there for about 15 minutes), which was a volcano that, being inactive, became a lagoon, we will return from these two places to the parking lot (there is a cafeteria and souvenir shop) and we will go to the waterfall La Paz is 40 minutes away, we will be there for approximately 30 minutes and then we will return to the meeting point (1 hour). This tour allows you to know all the details of this historic volcano (people who do not belong to the tour, try to get closer to ask questions, because they do not have enough information, I also monitor the weather and the cameras, to decide what we visit first, the volcano or waterfall, usually 90% of my tours can see it. We also make stops at viewpoints, tasting places, having a coffee or a meal, the tour is flexible. * In this experience the 20% commission from Airbnb platform, parking lot and 13% taxes are included in total cost, if you want a discount, you can make the reservation in my webpage(same cancellation rules). Search in G00GLE: Innovative Tours of Costa Rica

* THE PARK TICKET (18.08 USD) IS NOT INCLUDED AND MUST BE PURCHASED ONLINE (LINK TO GET THEM ONCE BOOKED) * PARK CAPACITY IS OF 1820 TICKETS PER DAY!!! * EXCELLENT FOR COUPLES, GROUPS OF FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND PRIVATE GROUPS. * THE PARK OPENS FROM 7:00 AM TO 4:00 PM. ON WED TO MON. * BEACHES ARE OPEN TILL 3:00PM. Once we have met and arrived to the park entrance we will walk through the main trails of the Tropical Humid Forest in Manuel Antonio National Park which is one of the best parks in Costa Rica to see wildlife. This park is very famous for its rich biodiversity and an expert local guide is required to spot the animals and plants while share natural history about them. Therefore, I offer you an easy hike of 2 hours surrounded by NATURE and hidden creatures such as SLOTHS, MONKEYS, FROGS, BIRDS, LIZARDS, INSECTS and much more. SURELY, we're gonna enjoy and get breathtaking views of all these using my brand new ATX-SWAROVSKI-SCOPE, getting through it unique HD pictures and 4K videos of the animals included only for you WITH NO EXTRA COST. Finally, after spotting out many animals we will get to Manuel Antonio Beach, the best and safest beach in the area with turquoise water and white sand where we finish the tour with the last recommendations and you will have enough time for swimming up. P.S : BRING ENERGY AND POSITIVE VIBES, IT HELPS TO FIND WILDLIFE.

Don Juan Tours Arenal is a family business that through its tours teach visitors the whole process behind two very important products worldwide, Coffee and Chocolate. Our experience: Don Juan - Coffee and Chocolate Tour, will take you to know the entire Coffee process, from the seed to the delicious cup of coffee. Once the coffee tour is finished, we will start with the sweetest part of the tour, the delicious chocolate. Like coffee, we will talk about the entire Chocolate process, from the seed to the delicious chocolate bar and we will end up selecting some members of the group to grind the cacao beans and make their own chocolate bar. Once finished you will have the opportunity to taste several types of chocolate such as Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate. One of our main features is the infrastructure we have, since the Arenal Area is well known for having a very changing climate, it goes from being very sunny and humid to heavy rains, even with a electric storms on some occasions, that is why that 100% of our trails are protected and made of cement, which will allow to enjoy the tour on sunny or rainy days. Families with children who need to take their stroller or people with some physical limitation will not have trouble walking with a walker, crutches or wheelchair.

You will have a chocolate class and you will be able to taste the different products of chocolate production: cacao fruit, roasted and unroasted seed, cacao nibs, cocoa powder and ancestral cacao beverage. Then... hands into chocolate... you wil learn the way we make our modern chocolates. We will start with pure cacao to obtain cacao paste of concentrations from 70%, 75%, 85% and 100%. With this you will make different kinds of chocolates combining with fresh local ingredients and our own chocolate fillings and then just create your own chocolates. Finally we will give ecofriendly packaging materials so that you take home your own chocolate creations and share your souvernir from Costa Rica.

After booking our experiences, you will arrive at our kitchen where you will be very welcome and where you will share a good time with an authentic Costa Rican family. After introducing ourselves and getting to know each other over a refreshing drink, we will take you on a tour of our organic garden, where you will learn about the different crops and aromatic plants, followed by picking some of the ingredients that we will use for the preparation of our dish. When we return to the kitchen we will prepare a refreshing mojito to proceed to prepare a typical dish with fresh ingredients, produced by us and our neighbors. At the end of the preparation of the dish, we will consume everything prepared in a family atmosphere. If you come with more time than agreed there is a good chance to observe some animals such as frogs, birds and sloth that live in our garden.

This is not a commercial coffee tour, it is an educational experience to create awareness in the only organic specialty coffee plantation in the Monteverde area, located in the Ecological Sanctuary, a 48 hectares family project focused on conservation, sustainability, agroecology, education and culture. In a guided workshop by an expert where you will learn from the basics of ancestral agriculture, how we create our own organic fertilizers, then you will know the coffee gardens planted in the forest that surrounds the Ecological Sanctuary, the drying area, and the process that involves the specialty coffee (history, plantations, growth, development, varieties and the science of flavor to prepare a good coffee). After leaving the forest, we will enjoy a guided coffee tasting, sharpening the senses to recognize defects, attributes, aromas and flavors in different qualities of coffee. Finally, we will create an interactive demonstration of the science of flavor and all the variables that an alchemist applies in the preparation of a coffee using different infusion methods. This workshop is an experience that will expand your knowledge of the world of coffee and help you become a home barista and an informed consumer. We also invite you to explore more of our property by hiking our trails, and connecting with nature.

My family and I will make sure you understand coffee farming and process from our 80 years experience of cultivating coffee on our farm. Coffee unites us, and we'll help you understand the market so you can choose better, and why organic farming is so different from what you may think. You'll learn about the realities of farming from our family who aren't using chemicals to produce an excellent cup of coffee. We'll spend almost one hour talking about the process, and help you understand coffee and farming with an open mind. We'll see the plants, the roasting, and the brewing. You'll discover how to make a better cup of coffee, how to get what you want from a java cup, and learn about other products made with the coffee fruit. You'll support a family who'll give you a unique and authentic experience. Other things to note Come with hiking boots and long pants. You must drive to get to our farm or take a bus at 9 AM from Atenas.

Monteverde in Costa Rica is one of the best destinations for Birdwatching around different birds habitats. I was raised in Monteverde where I have been living all my life listening all the different bird calls all the time, that I can recognize 99% of them. My 31 years experience made me very exigent to use different birdwatching places, depending the season or weather conditions to see as many birds as possible. We'll start birdwatching at 6:00 AM, where we'll see about 30 different species of birds at an elevation of about 4,500 feet above sea level. Then we'll stop at the cafeteria for a quick Costa Rican coffee. After that, we'll move up to Curicancha Reserve where we'll walk through two different life zones including different types of forests (secondary, transitional and primary) plus open areas where we'll be able to see much more variety of birds or Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve to be at a different elevation—about 5,000 feet above sea level—where we'll see much more interesting birds, including the resplendent quetzal, guans, barbets, three-wattled bellbirds, tinamous, and so many others. Is good to know that if you repeat the tour, you must see other birds you didn't see the day before.. Typically we would see 60 to 70 different types of birds. Other things to note Bring binoculars, a bird book, hiking shoes, insect repellent, rain gear, and a hat.

If you want to get to know San Jose as a local and taste its flavors, nothing could get you closer to authentic San Jose than walking through the streets and the markets with a local as they show you the anecdotes and outs of daily life. On this experience you’ll get up close and personal with Costa Rican life, through local food, history, culture and even the herbal remedies of folk medicine. Enjoy a hands-on lesson on exotic plants, fruits, vegetables, and more in the Borbon Market. From here, we’ll take a stroll through the vibrant Central Market, tasting caldosa (ceviche) and continuing along local roads towards the the Cathedral, National Theater, and the beautiful parks Morazan, will help you get to know the country and its rich history and from this experience, you’ll have another sense , taste to get more in tune with San Jose. For the end visit Mr. Sloth Coffee Shop a store where you will find gourmet coffees and chocolates produced by women, in this special place tasting and learn to prepare coffee, enjoy a tamal , cooked by local families and wrapped in a banana leaf, learn how to make plantain empanadas with cheese, and try our famous Agua de Sapo, make with sugar cañe, lemon and ginger.

A tour to get to know nature and travel in Costa Rican public transport (train and bus). The plan is to get to know one of Costa Rica's majestic volcanoes: Irazú Volcano! Undoubtedly the central theme is to be able to visit the volcano and get to know its craters up close through a viewpoint. However, the idea is to take the train from San José to Cartago, where we will find you at the station, to walk through the city of Cartago, which was many years ago the capital of Costa Rica, where we will be able to learn more about the history of the Antigua Metrópoli. Next, we will board the bus to Irazu Volcano together (if you wish we can hire private transportation, additional payment). Once we are in the Irazú Volcano National Park we can see up close, thanks to a viewpoint that provides the park, the Diego de La Haya Crater, Playa Hermosa, the Main Crater and we will climb to the highest point of the place. We will visit places like the famous Ruins, the Basilica of the Angels, the Plaza Mayor, the Market and even the Old Military Quarter of the city. We will start the tour at 8:15 am and finish around 2 pm for lunch and return by bus or train from 3:47 pm to San Jose. What are you waiting for? Book your tour with The Company!

*********** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ********* After 4 persons 5% Discount You can request different times. This Experience is available PRIVATE. Are you Looking for Animals and have an amazing experience? We will set off from the World- Famous Manuel Antonio National Park at the Main Entrance. For the next 2 hours, you will be taken through several trails in our quest to spot animals. As a Certified ICT Nature Specialist, i will be helping you to discover many different species of animals hidden or been camouflaged in plain sight and sharing interesting facts and behaviors learned by guiding tours for over 13 years. During the tour, Videos in 4K and pictures of your favorite animals will be taken through our top-of-the-line Swarovski Crystals Spotting ATX Scope with no additional cost adding those fantastic memories to your vacations. Wildlife at the park is exuberant, sloths, monkeys, toucans, different species of birds, butterflies, lizards, iguanas, crabs, insects. All these animals and much more could be seen on our way to Manuel Antonio beach. Once there, we will take a break, to relax or swim. After our beach break. You will continue discovering more about Manuel Antonio and its Hidden Beauty on our way to the exit of the park. See you soon on our tour. Announcements Admissions feeds are $5.65 (children) $18.08 (adult) additional to the price.

Immerse yourself in the culture and history of the city. Explore San Jose by Night, complete with local markets, cultural icons, and a tasty dinner with wine! Starting with the Central Market, which, is the only way to learn about the city’s food. Stroll the market with your local guide and get to know the secret uses of the roots, herbs, fruit common in local cuisines, including ingredients that will play a role in your authentic Costa Rican dinner later. We'll make our way down Central Avenue, learning about the city’s history and anecdotes, as well as visiting one of the most architecturally beautiful buildings, the National Theatre. From there, our appreciation for San Jose’s historical architecture continues, walk through Morazán Park and we will visit Mr. Sloth Coffee Shop to make and taste delicious cocktails. We’ll continue with a walk by the Metallic Building, then on to Spain Park for a fantastic view of the Yellow House. We'll be spending the rest of the evening at a favorite dinner at a farm to table private home dinning. This cozy establishment offers the best prehispanic food menu , a unique space that offers art, culture, history as well as fine dining.

Staying in San Jose and looking for a fun, safe and inclusive night out? This 3-hour BarCrawl in San Jose everything you need to have a great time, live our nightlife as a true local and safely moving throughout one of our most popular, best-known bar districts. During this tour, we will visit the most popular bars and clubs in town! Each of the bars will have a different atmosphere than the last. Week schedule: - Wed: Local dish dinner & beer + cocktail. - Thu, Fri & Sat: Dance & drink. Come out and meet people from all over at an affordable price! It will be better than to stay in your room ;) Our customers speak for ourselves, check out our reviews below! ***If you wish to request safe roundtrip private transportation to and from the tour for an added cost, please reach out to us after booking with your hotel address or location and we will provide a quote per person. --- Note: This tour embraces diversity and inclusion in all of its forms, and does not discriminate based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or nationality. We welcome everyone to join us and experience the many different cultures that may come together in any or all of our groups/tours. We also expect that all of our guests share our commitment to respect diversity and inclusion.

We will leave from the meeting point that you chose (there are 3) to the Poás Volcano National Park, which is 1 hour away, when we arrive at the parking lot we will walk 20 minutes to reach the Poás Volcano Crater, which has the largest geyser in the world, we will be there for about 30 minutes, then we will walk 15 minutes to the Botos lagoon (we will be there for about 15 minutes), which was a volcano that, being inactive, became a lagoon, we will return from these two places to the parking lot (there is a cafeteria and souvenir shop) and we will go to the waterfall La Paz is 40 minutes away, we will be there for approximately 30 minutes and then we will return to the meeting point (1 hour). This tour allows you to know all the details of this historic volcano (people who do not belong to the tour, try to get closer to ask questions, because they do not have enough information, I also monitor the weather and the cameras, to decide what we visit first, the volcano or waterfall, usually 90% of my tours can see it. We also make stops at viewpoints, tasting places, having a coffee or a meal, the tour is flexible. * In this experience the 20% commission from Airbnb platform, parking lot and 13% taxes are included in total cost, if you want a discount, you can make the reservation in my webpage(same cancellation rules). Search in G00GLE: Innovative Tours of Costa Rica

* THE PARK TICKET (18.08 USD) IS NOT INCLUDED AND MUST BE PURCHASED ONLINE (LINK TO GET THEM ONCE BOOKED) * PARK CAPACITY IS OF 1820 TICKETS PER DAY!!! * EXCELLENT FOR COUPLES, GROUPS OF FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND PRIVATE GROUPS. * THE PARK OPENS FROM 7:00 AM TO 4:00 PM. ON WED TO MON. * BEACHES ARE OPEN TILL 3:00PM. Once we have met and arrived to the park entrance we will walk through the main trails of the Tropical Humid Forest in Manuel Antonio National Park which is one of the best parks in Costa Rica to see wildlife. This park is very famous for its rich biodiversity and an expert local guide is required to spot the animals and plants while share natural history about them. Therefore, I offer you an easy hike of 2 hours surrounded by NATURE and hidden creatures such as SLOTHS, MONKEYS, FROGS, BIRDS, LIZARDS, INSECTS and much more. SURELY, we're gonna enjoy and get breathtaking views of all these using my brand new ATX-SWAROVSKI-SCOPE, getting through it unique HD pictures and 4K videos of the animals included only for you WITH NO EXTRA COST. Finally, after spotting out many animals we will get to Manuel Antonio Beach, the best and safest beach in the area with turquoise water and white sand where we finish the tour with the last recommendations and you will have enough time for swimming up. P.S : BRING ENERGY AND POSITIVE VIBES, IT HELPS TO FIND WILDLIFE.

This is the MUST-DO experience in SJO for nature lovers! We will explore the hidden ecosystem resting inside the University of Costa Rica's campus, the first public university in the country, by the hand of the young biologists who study here. Be ready for amazing bird-watching, curious insects, all sorts of tropical plants and the cherry on top of the cake: the small population of sloths living wild and free on the campus' gardens. Many times we will try some wild berries and smell all sorts of barks and flowers. We'll be talking about art, history, indigenous culture, and most of all, nature. This is a full senses experience so you will get to see, touch, smell, taste, and listen to nature thriving amidst our country's biggest city. *** From May to November we recommend booking on the morning slot due to rainy afternoons, however, the afternoons are also great DISCLAIMER: This is not a Recue Center or Sloth Sactuary Tour. You will not be able to touch them, if found, the sloths will be seen in their natural habitat, which means most of the time they will be sleeping on the trees. Still, our experience is your best option at San Jose if you're a true nature lover. This is a 2,5h walking tour, some parts will be exposed to intense sunlight. Not a heavy walk, but please consider your physical condition

We will meet the guide at the Sloth Watching Trail at 8:00 am, or at your hotel if it is near La Fortuna. (please indicate that you require transportation) First we go to the majestic La Fortuna Waterfall, which is 230 feet high; where if the weather allows it, we will bathe in its crystal clear waters. (if it rains a lot it won't be possible) We will be around an hour and a half in this place; then we will take the minibus to go to the next point and one of the most spectacular, the walk in the tropical forest to the base of the Arenal Volcano, where we will visit the lava flows of the years 1525, 1968 and 2010; Also while we enjoy this beautiful ecological park we will learn about the trees and animals that inhabit this place. (Approximately two hours to the base of the volcano and one hour to the green lagoon). After the descent we will enjoy a bath in the green lagoon of totally clean water and of volcanic formation. Once we have enjoyed it, we will have a traditional lunch. To finish we return to the bus to go to the natural river of hot springs (Rio Tabacón), where we will enjoy a majestic place, we will also put on a volcanic mud mask. For after a great day of adventure and experience, return to La Fortuna around 4 pm.

Don Juan Tours Arenal is a family business that through its tours teach visitors the whole process behind two very important products worldwide, Coffee and Chocolate. Our experience: Don Juan - Coffee and Chocolate Tour, will take you to know the entire Coffee process, from the seed to the delicious cup of coffee. Once the coffee tour is finished, we will start with the sweetest part of the tour, the delicious chocolate. Like coffee, we will talk about the entire Chocolate process, from the seed to the delicious chocolate bar and we will end up selecting some members of the group to grind the cacao beans and make their own chocolate bar. Once finished you will have the opportunity to taste several types of chocolate such as Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate. One of our main features is the infrastructure we have, since the Arenal Area is well known for having a very changing climate, it goes from being very sunny and humid to heavy rains, even with a electric storms on some occasions, that is why that 100% of our trails are protected and made of cement, which will allow to enjoy the tour on sunny or rainy days. Families with children who need to take their stroller or people with some physical limitation will not have trouble walking with a walker, crutches or wheelchair.

You will have a chocolate class and you will be able to taste the different products of chocolate production: cacao fruit, roasted and unroasted seed, cacao nibs, cocoa powder and ancestral cacao beverage. Then... hands into chocolate... you wil learn the way we make our modern chocolates. We will start with pure cacao to obtain cacao paste of concentrations from 70%, 75%, 85% and 100%. With this you will make different kinds of chocolates combining with fresh local ingredients and our own chocolate fillings and then just create your own chocolates. Finally we will give ecofriendly packaging materials so that you take home your own chocolate creations and share your souvernir from Costa Rica.

(THE BEST CANOPY ZIP LINE IN THE FOREST WITH THE BEST TUBING RIVER IN THE AREA) What we'll do and include is: 1- Seven cables of different distances, between 590 to 1315 feet. 2- Two short walks on trails in the forest. 3- 165-feet high rappell on a dry natural wall. (optional for the one who wants to) We do it if the weather is appropriate. 4- 15 minute walk to the Arenal River. 5- 1 hour of fun on inflatable tubes along the river channel, with life vest and helmet. 6- Visit to see or buy souvenirs from the Malekus aborigines. 7- With the bracelet that we give you, you can have access to the pools of Montaña de Fuego Resort, located in front of our place. (It is an optional activity). Other things to note: - Is recommended to know swimming. - You can bring personal action camera that can be tied to the helmet. - If you bring your cell phone, we recommend a special pocket to tie to the harness. (if you lose it, it's not our responsibility.) - Do not bring jewelry or items that can be dropped from the platforms or in the river. - We have parking, lockers and dressing rooms. - If you need we can provide transportation from La Fortuna downtown for $5 per person, with advance notice. - We have a photographer in case you want to buy his service, are $30 per person. - This activity is not allowed for pregnant women.

“The best way to start or end your trip in Costa Rica.” If you want to get to know San Jose thoroughly and taste its flavors, see its unique architecture and get to know its history, this is the tour you are looking for! The plan is to show you around the city and walk around, talk and have coffee as if we've been friends for a long time. We will leave from the Steinvorth Building to the birthplace of the New Villa of the Boca del Monte de San Joseph (colonial name of the current Costa Rican capital), to walk through historical points and transcendent places of facts for our country. It is a route based on details, history, anecdotes, corners little known by the tourist, complemented by the entrance to heritage buildings and public and private spaces, such as museums, squares, cafes, galleries, among others. Ideal for photographing and being able to walk around the city and identify its main points, bus stops, shops, markets and everything you need to move around San José. In two and a half hours we'll give you a perspective that few can give you and that will show you why San José was a great city and because it was called "Little Paris." Even when it rains, we'll have a tour. We will go through San Jose, through some areas of its four historic districts (Carmen, Merced, Hospital and Cathedral).

Nuestra ubicación en tamarindo es una referencia en caso que necesites transporte hacia La Cascada Transporte de Tamarindo a Curubande NO incluido. Si necesitas transporte, avísanos y nosotros enviaremos una cotización Visitaremos una de las cascadas más hermosas de la zona. Caminaremos por diferentes cuevas y cañones Además de nadar en las pozas turquesas del Río blanco Una actividad que será de gran experiencia para toda la familia, amigos o pareja

*** FREE roundtrip transportation provided from Curubande downtown to the Waterfall *** Let us know if you need transportation and we can quote you the service with a local driver from town. Our day starts by meeting at our office located 20 min away from Liberia downtown through the small villages of Colorado and Curubande. We count with two parking lots at our location in Curubande where you can leave your car safe while we do the hike. From Curubande we will take a 4WD for 1 km that will take us to the entrance of the waterfall trail and here is where the hike begins. The waterfall is well hidden away on the outskirts of Rincon de la Vieja Volcano . The trail is 1.3 Miles (2 Kilometers) singletrack so together it is 4 km. There are some climbing to do in elevation and some caves to go across. Later to reach the waterfall we have to swim 25 meters through a beautiful turquoise river canyon. This is a local experience that takes place where the Blanco and the Colorado rivers cross through, forming canyons and beautiful scenery which is why the water in their pools have that special turquoise tint.