Natural Harmony Routes 15 Days

Upon your arrival private transfer from Juan Santamaria International Airport to your hotel in San Jose.

In the hotel, our representative will explain to you in detail your itinerary. 

The rest of the day is free to enjoy the facilities and services in the hotel. 

Included

Donation Sustainable Projects

Guide Service Meet&Greet – English

La Paz Waterfall Gardens 

Get a first insight of Costa Rican´s lush tropical rainforest and impressive waterfalls. La Paz Waterfall Gardens is an animal sanctuary with over 100 species of animals and offering easy hiking trails passing waterfalls cascading down the east slope of the active Poás Volcano. Visit afterwards the serpentarium, bird house, frog exhibition, hummingbird garden and the jungle cat house. During your stay buffet lunch included.

Included

• Entrace fee+ lunch

Early pick-up from your hotel in San José.  In Guapiles you will stop at a typical restaurant (El Ceibo) for breakfast. Afterwards the shuttle of the Lodge will drive through banana plantations and drop you off at a small harbor. From there you navigate by boat. 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 great variety of flora and fauna of breathtaking beauty. Enjoy a delicious lunch, as you will be welcomed at Evergreen Lodge. After lunch, you will visit the museum, the beach area and the small and picturesque town of Tortuguero.

A delightful dinner will be served upon arrival to the lodge. ON Evergreen Lodge – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Day 4: 2025-02-04 Tortuguero National ParkBefore breakfast, you might choose to take a morning tour (optional): Enjoy nature its best as you undertake a journey through the canals at dawn, and take your best short of a real Caribbean sunrise.

Discover Costa Rican flavors as you enjoy breakfast at the lodge. Get ready to discover the private trails of the lodge and experience this unique paradise of magnificent flora and fauna. Enjoy a delicious lunch at the lodge. In the afternoon and after lunch, you enjoy a boat tour through the quiet backwater canals of the national park, for up-close observation of the flora and fauna which makes this part of the world so unique.Before dinner, enjoy a “siesta” or relax by the pool. Optional you can book a Canopy tour in the Lodge (price is not included in the offer). After dinner, during turtle season an optional night walk is offered: Walk on the beach and admire the green turtles nesting (July through September).ON Evergreen Lodge – Breakfast, Lunch, DinnerDay 5: 2025-02-05 Tortuguero – ???After breakfast, embark by boat around 9 a.m. for the small harbor. From there you will head off by bus to a typical Costa Rican restaurant (El Ceibo) in Guapiles for a delicious home-cooked lunch.

The “Amazonas of Cost Rica” is waiting for you!

Off to an early start (at about 06.00hrs) from your hotel in San José, you drive along a scenic route of lush pasturelands and banana plantations, through the Braulio Carrillo National Park.  You stop for a typical Costa Rican breakfast in Guapiles before arriving at the small river harbor. From there you navigate by boat. 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 great variety of flora and fauna of breathtaking beauty.

Enjoy a hearty lunch before departing to a walking tour to the bustling village of Tortuguero with approximately 1300 inhabitants and its immediate surroundings with your local naturalist guide.

Rest of the day at your disposal.

Included

• Transfers by bus and boat San José – Guápiles – Lodge Tortuguero
• Visit to the village of Tortuguero
• bilingual English-Spanish local guide, joining international travelers

Excluded

• Personal expenses, tips, and gratuities
• Excursions and activities mentioned as optional 
• Additional costs for early check-in (before 2:00 p.m.) or late check-out (after 12:00 p.m.) in the hotels offered

Expert Tips

• Pick Up only possible with hotels in San José center
• Pick Up time in San José will be at around 06.00 – 06.30hrs
• Arrival in Tortuguero around noon
• Land transfer in a large bus
• Boot transfer about 20 people
• Season of turtles laying eggs: July – September
• For the turtle nesting activity: bring dark clothes (long trousers, shoes, shirt or jacket)
• Tour to the turtle nesting: cannot be reserved in advance, only bookable on site, payment by cash
• Luggage limited to 1 suitcase and 1 hand luggage per person. Excess luggage or if you wish to take less luggage may be stored in Guapiles restaurant 
• Boat ride about 1 hour, for families: please consider if your children will be fine with a long boat ride

Visit the world-famous Tortuguero National Park, one of the most important nesting sites for the Green Sea Turtle, the Leatherback and the Hawksbill Turtle. Together with your guide, you will discover the small canals where the bordering vegetation forms amazing tunnels, nature presents itself from the most beautiful tropical side: Caimans, crocodiles, poison-arrow frogs, monkeys and manatees are just a few examples of Tortuegero’s abundant fauna.

Start your day (before breakfast) with unforgettable early morning tour to experience the awakening of Tortuguero wildlife (optional).

After a well-deserved breakfast, your naturalist guide will take you across the large property near the rainforest in order to admire the diversifying landscape, flora and fauna.  In the afternoon and after lunch, you enjoy a boat tour through the quiet backwater canals of the national park, for up-close observation of the local animals which makes this part of the world so unique. The jungle literally seams to float on water. Before dinner, enjoy a “siesta”, or relax by the pool

Included

Entrance Fee Tortuguero National Park

• Boat tour through the canals of Nationalpark Tortuguero
• Rainforest walk at the Lodge
• Bilingual English-Spanish local guide, joining international travelers

Excluded

• Personal expenses, tips and gratuities
• Excursions and activities mentioned as optional 

Expert Tips

• optional Turtle Nesting Tour (July – September) 
• optional Early Morning Boat Tour Canals

After breakfast, you leave Tortuguero around 9 a.m by boat. Upon arrival at the small river harbor, you continue the travel by bus to a typical Costa Rican restaurant ‘El Ceibo’ near Guapiles for a delicious home-cooked lunch. Continue your journey yo your next destination. 

Included

• Transfers by boat and bus Tortuguero – Guápiles
• Rental car to continue for the rest of your itinerary

Snorkeling & Walking  Tour.

This tour is started with a small boat having capacity for 15 persons, a captain and a local guide. You will be taken to the surroundings of the Cahuita National Park which with the highest biodiversity per square meter in the different ecosystems on land and in the sea.  Participants have the opportunity to snorkel for around 2 hours in the most important coral reef of Costa Rica and with a bit of luck lots of different species can be observed: corals, tropical fish, sharks, moray eels, sea urchins, univalves, crustaceans, algae, sea turtles, sea cucumbers, sea sponges, lobster, and shrimp, amongst others.

After the snorkeling experience, the second part of the tour begins: a hike towards between Punta Cahuita and the town of Cahuita (about 5 km) where guests have the chance to overseer different species of snakes, sloths, white-faced monkeys, howler monkeys, anteaters, armadillos, racoons, morpho butterflies and others, as well as numerous types of birds.This tour includes a fruit snack, the provision of snorkeling equipment, a bilingual guide, lunch, round-trip transportation and water. Duration: 7 to 8 hours, minimum 2 persons. Entrance fee to the national park may be paid as a voluntary donation.

Included

• Lunch, Bilingual Guide, Transportation

 The rainforest lodge is located in the extreme north of the country, near the border with Nicaragua.
Enjoy the evening on the covered terrace with a cold drink, accompanied by the concert of the jungle inhabitants.

Private  Boat Tour.

We will take a boat that will take us down the majestic San Carlos River to the border with Nicaragua.

During the trip we will be able to observe birds, turtles, monkeys, iguanas and the impressive crocodiles that inhabit it.
We will arrive at a small community called Boca San Carlos, its name refers to the mouth of the San Carlos River, Costa Rica in the San Juan River, Nicaragua; there we will take a short tour and if you wish you can enjoy a natural refreshment offered by the local people.

Included

Bilingual Guide

Continue the tour after breakfast and return to Pital. Via “Muelle” you will reach the town of La Fortuna, located at the foot of the Arenal Volcano, around noon. In good weather, the almost perfect cone can be seen from far away. 

Sky Tram, Sky Trek , Sky Walk.

A full day of adventure awaits you today!You start with the Sky Tram, a open-air gondola which reaches a wide observation deck at the highest point of the Arenal Reserve, from where you can observe the rainforest, the Arenal Volcano and lake. The journey in the aerial tramway is accompanied by a naturalist guide giving interesting information about the nature and environment. Once you have reached the observation deck, you can enjoy a walk on one of the trails during about 30 minutes.You will continue to a more adventurous way! A Sky Trek tour full of adrenaline above the treetops, which consists on a system of zip lines, that allows you to observe the rainforest and its landscape from a different perspective.

The tour includes 7 cross-sectional cables with distances up to750m (2460 feet), and with a maximum height of 200m (660 feet), providing a panoramic view of the Arenal Volcano and lake.You finish off with a guided Sky Walk, perfect for nature lovers. An excellent combination between walking in the exuberant rainforest of the Arenal area and the extreme adventure of Arenals Zip Lines!

Included

• Bilingual Guide

Expert Tips

Sky Tram, Sky Trek, Sky Walk – Arenal Duration total:  about 4hrsSchedule recommended: 08:00 am, 11:30 amEnglishspeaking localguide, shared activity Transfer from/to hotel not included, upon request available Sky Walk: easy hiking level circuit of about 4km , height up to 70m (230ft), length up to 236m (774ft)Sky Tram: Bubble Car arrival to a viewpoint and starting point for Sky Trek Sky Trek:7 cables, no  walking distances between platformsHeight up to 200m (656ft), Length up to 750m (2460ft), Speed up to 70km/h (43,5mph)No “hands -on-cable” Adrenalin level: middle to high , high intensity activity, not permitted for people with any kind of health problemMinimum age: 5years, minimum height 120cm (3’11’’), Maximum weight 136 kg (300 lb.)Kids 5-6 years: tandem ride with guide, Kids 7-10 years: tandem ride each other if additional guides not available

Today you head north to the Rincón de la Vieja National Park.
Rincón de la Vieja is a place where the volcanic component, with its fumaroles, lagoons and Pailas de Barro, is combined with a great diversity of ecosystems and impressive landscapes, waterfalls, regenerating grasslands and primary forests.

You will enjoy a dinner at Haicenda Guachipelin.

Today your journey will take you to the cool cloud forest region of Monteverde. Thanks to the altitude of this destination, at 1550 m above sea level, an interesting biodiversity thrives here, typical of high-altitude tropical forests. 

You will feel as if you are on top of the world, but in reality you have arrived at the center of the country’s continental divide. In Monteverde, the sun-drenched faces of the beach dwellers are replaced by the warm smiles of farmers, artists, naturalists and nature lovers, especially in the small but cozy village of Santa Elena.

GUIDED TOUR TO MONTEVERDE CLOUD FOREST RESERVE:

The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is the largest of these private protected areas, with over 25,730 acres (10,415 hectares) of land. More than 500 species of orchids cling to the limbs of enormous trees, while vines, ferns, mosses and lichens fill every other available space.The Cloud Forest of Monteverde house more than 130 species of mammals, 400 species of birds, including the beautiful quetzal, 30 species of hummingbirds, 5000 species of moths and 3000 species of plants. It is a nature lover’s paradise.Included: Transportation, entrance fees, professional and bilingual guide.

Included

• Bilingual Guide, Transportation

Expert Tips

Departures: 7:00 am – 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. (from hotel in Monteverde area).Return: About 4 hours later.

Say goodbye to this paradise!

You will be transferred to National’s offices in Belen to deliver the rental car. Then the supplier will take you to the Juan Santa Maria Airport so you can take your international flight.