Sitting on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, you’ll find the quiet sandy shores of Punta Uva. Home to a small number of residents and mildly populated by tourism, this peaceful place is only a five-minute walk to the Gandoca Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge. Surrounded by bounteous rainforest filled with a network of hiking trails, the beach features a shallow coral reef excellent for snorkeling. In the nearby Talamanca mountain range, indigenous tribes live in harmony with nature following simple sustainability practices of their predecessors who settled here long, long ago. They welcome you to learn the process of making chocolate from cacao and will take you swimming at a jungle waterfall, or on a guided birdwatching expedition. Tours are also available from this area to go ziplining through the canopy, rappelling in the waterfalls and streams, plus climbing a giant old growth tree!
Nature, Learning Family, Culture
The Bri Bri Village Tour will transport you to a place where time has barely altered ancient traditions. This captivating experience includes visiting two indigenous families living in separate villages within two different reserves. Each family will delight in showing you their way of life and sharing their customs with you. The first family will surprise you with their passion for iguanas. T ...
Suggested age range: 3+
Nature, Learning Family, Hiking
The Cahuita National Park Tour is a wonderful hiking opportunity to comfortably explore both beach and a tropical rain forest found along the southernmost Caribbean shores of Costa Rica. This national park is part of the La Amistad Conservation Area which is a World Heritage site protecting the local tropical rain forests, beaches, and recovering coral reefs nestled in the sparkling Caribbean w ...
Suggested age range: 1+
Adventure, Nature, Beach, Learning Family
This is an opportunity to experience hiking at Cahuita National Park and snorkeling in the sparkling Caribbean combined in one tour. The national park is in the La Amistad Conservation Area which is on Costa Rica’s southernmost Caribbean coastline. It was established in 1982 in order to protect the rain forests, beaches, coral reefs, and their inhabitants. This is a tour that you will likely ...
Suggested age range: 1+
Adventure, Extreme, Nature, Zipline
Your Puerto Viejo Jungle Adventure Tour is designed for the experienced athlete who loves a challenge. This is a day full of hiking, climbing, swinging and rappelling through the jungle near the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The tour includes crossing a hammock bridge over the canopy, hiking down a river, swimming in natural pools, rappelling down a waterfall, climbing a giant tree an ...
Suggested age range: 13+
Nature, Learning Family, Hiking, Wildlife Hike
The Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge tour will take you over remarkable wilderness hiking trails that allow you to sample the different ecosystems of the area. This refuge encompasses 11,00 acres of land including several pristine Caribbean beaches, lush tropical rain forests as well as the transition areas and accompanying wildlife. The tour will begin when you are picked up from your ...
Suggested age range: 12+
Adventure, Nature, Learning Family, Culture
Today’s leisurely guided tour will take you by horseback through the jungle, along the beach and into the streets of a small town called Cahuita where you will have the opportunity to see tropical birds and wildlife. Your local guide will likely be one of the last vaqueros, or cowboys, and a descendant from the indigenous people that settled in this area of southeastern Costa Rica.Your ...
Suggested age range: 10+
Nature, Learning Family, Culture, Waterfalls
This Puerto Viejo culture tour will take you to one of the Bri Bri villages where you will be welcomed and taught how to make chocolate before visiting the Talamanca Waterfalls to go swimming. This tour is popular because it provides an opportunity to interact personally with members of Costa Rica’s indigenous culture and discover the beautiful natural environment where they live. Plus you wi ...
Suggested age range: 1+
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