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Day 1:
Meet and greet at Juan Santamaría International Airport. Transfer to your hotel.
Overnight at Studio Hotel
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Day 2:
After breakfast at the hotel, you will have guided visits to Poas Volcano, Doka Coffee Plantation and La Paz Waterfall Gardens. To get to the different attractions included during this tour, you will drive by the city of Alajuela passing by the Agriculture Monument, the Monument to Juan Santamaria and the famous Mango Park. First stop, will be in Doka, a third-generation coffee plantation, to learn how coffee is picked, milled, ground and roasted. As you continue towards the Poás Volcano, you will notice the change in temperature and vegetation. You will see coffee plantations, fern, flower and strawberry farms along the way, creating a colorful landscape. The Poas is one of the most spectacular volcanoes in the country, with its enormous crater measuring one kilometer in diameter and 314 meters deep. The crystal blue sulfur pools will amaze you along with the steam rising from the various volcanic vents. You will also hike to the beautiful Botos Lagoon. The tour continues to discover La Paz Waterfall Gardens, a natural park where you will walk through some spectacular trails leading to the White Magic Waterfall. You will also visit the largest butterfly observatory and the impressive hummingbird gallery, the serpentarium, the old house, the bird house and the frog exhibit. After lunch, you will head back to San José.
Overnight at Studio Hotel.
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Day 3:
After an early departure from San Jose, driving through the spectacular Braulio Carrillo National Park, stop at Rio Danta private restaurant for a delicious typical breakfast. The bus ride continues through banana plantations to the pier. A two-hour boat ride through the canals will take you to Mawamba Lodge just in time for lunch. In the afternoon, a visit to the small town of Tortuguero is included before walking back to the lodge by the beach. Before dinner, you have free time to enjoy the pool or just to relax in a hammock. Dinner is served in the pool restaurant from 7:30 PM.
Overnight at Mawamba Lodge.
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Day 4:
After breakfast, enjoy a guided visit to Mawamba Park’s private trails, seeing the butterfly gardens, the iguanas and the frog gardens. The Biodigester is a system where the sewage waters are treated and converted in a natural source of gas to heat up the kitchen stoves. After lunch, enjoy a canal boat tour through Tortuguero National Park.
Overnight at Mawamba Lodge.
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Day 5:
After breakfast, take a shared boat transfer back to the pier, where the trip will continue by bus to your next destination. Lunch is included in Rio Danta Restaurant. You will be transferred from Guápiles to the Arenal area. San Carlos offers a landscape of exceptional beauty with its forests, lagoons, fields of crops, rivers with hot springs and the most active volcano of Costa Rica, Arenal. In other words, these are sanctuaries where one can breathe peace, purity and the majestic power of nature.
Overnight at Arenal Springs.
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Day 6:
After breakfast at the hotel, take a natural history walk in the Hanging Bridges. In the afternoon, see, from up close, the activities of the Arenal Volcano.
Overnight at Arenal Springs.
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Day 7:
After breakfast, transfer to Monteverde.The town of Monteverde, located at the south end of the cloud forest, had its beginnings in the early 1950's with the impetus of a group of Quakers from the United States, a group that came to Costa Rica attracted by its pacific inclinations and disarmament. They established themselves in the region and devoted themselves to produce milk and quality cheeses. Monteverde is located 172 kilometers northeast of San José. The climate is temperate and humid, with an average of 60ºF. The nights are cool and, at times cold, when the trade winds blow.
Overnight at Trapp Family Lodge.
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Day 8:
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. This morning, you will visit to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Your afternoon is at leisure to enjoy the area or to take an optional tour.
Overnight at Trapp Family Lodge.
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Day 9:
After breakfast, transfer to the North Pacific coast.
Overnight at Tamarindo Diriá Hotel.
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Day 10:
Today is at your leisure.
Overnight at Tamarindo Diriá Hotel.
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Day 11:
Today is at your leisure.
Overnight at Tamarindo Diriá Hotel.
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Day 12:
After breakfast transfer back to San José.
Overnight at Studio Hotel.
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Day 13:
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Juan Santamaría International airport for your flight.
