Costa Rica Memorable Moments

Costa Rica Memorable Moments

Traveling always provides memorable moments, and Costa Rica’s nature has plenty to offer on this tour! Imagine relaxing in therapeutic hot springs in the shadows of an active volcano, looking for wildlife from above a forest tree top canopy, dipping your toes in the clear-blue waters of a sandy beach or getting up close and personal with a sloth! What memories will you make?

Day 1: Travel to Costa Rica

Bienvenidos a Costa Rica! Meet your Costa Rican Prométour Tour Director upon arrival at the airport in San Jose.

Board your motor coach and travel to La Guacima de Alajuela, a small village 18 miles northwest of San Jose, where locals speak only Spanish and families preserve the real “tico” lifestyle.

Check-in at El Rancho Lodge and have some leisure time; there is a pool, a volleyball net, you can play soccer or go for a walk around town!

Day 2: San Jose

Breakfast at the hotel.

Board your motor coach and travel to San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.

See some of the most popular sites on a guided city tour of San Jose including; Plaza de la Cultura and Plaza de Democracia, the famous flea market where you can practice your Spanish by bargaining with local vendors Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

Visit Museo del Oro; the collection dates from when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas and the pieces range from simple round earrings to intricately-worked representations of local animals, all made from gold.

Enjoy some leisure time to discover San Jose at your own pace.

Enjoy the magnificent view and an authentic traditional Costa Rican folkloric dinner show at Restaurant Mirador Tiquicia.

Overnight accommodation at El Rancho Lodge.

Day 3: Poas Volcano & Coffee Plantation

Breakfast at the hotel.

Make your way to Poas Volcano National Park; Poas Volcano is considered the largest active crater in the world at about 1.6 km wide and 320 meters deep, with frequent gyser-like eruptions and Lake Botos fills an extinct crater and is home to many cloud forest birds like hummingbirds, tanagers and the quetzal.

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

Breathe in the aroma of freshly-roasted Arabica coffee beans at the Doka Coffee Plantation. The tour begins at the seedbed, where visitors learn about the farm’s history, the coffee trees and the planting process, and if the plants’ fruits are ripe, pick a few coffee berries before visiting the water mill, processing plant and the roasting room

Dinner and overnight accommodation at El Rancho Lodge

Day 4: La Paz Waterfall, Sarchi & Grecia

Breakfast at the hotel.

Explore La Paz Waterfall & Gardens; located along the road that leads to the northern plains of Costa Rica, this amazing park offers visitors the opportunity to observe many different species of local wildlife such as; hummingbirds, bromeliad gardens, a serpentarium, a frog pond, 3.5 kilometers of walking trails, and of course, waterfalls.

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

Stop in the town of Sarchi and watch the artisans at work as they create the unique and colorful Ox Carts that this town is famous for.

Follow your Prometour Tour Director on a discovery tour of Grecia, the highlight being the famous Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes Church because of its particular architecture.

Dinner and overnight accommodation at El Rancho Lodge.

Day 5: Arenal/La Fortuna

Breakfast at the hotel.

Board your motor coach and travel to Mount Arenal, which was considered dormant for over 400 years until it erupted in 1968.

Visit the Don Olivo Chocolate Farm to learn (and taste) how raw cacao beans are transformed into chocolate.

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

At the Ecotermales Hot Springs experience the rejuvenating and therapeutic properties of thermal waters rich in minerals and naturally heated by the volcanic activity of Mount Arenal.

Dinner and overnight accommodation in Arenal/La Fortuna.

Day 6: Monteverde

Breakfast at the hotel.

Board your motor coach and travel to Monteverde.

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

Explore Monteverde’s Cloud Forest; this large reserve is one of the most outstanding wildlife sanctuaries in the Americas and includes eight distinct ecological zones that protect more than 400 species of birds and over 100 species of mammals.

Dinner and overnight accommodation in Monteverde.

Day 7: Quepos

Breakfast at the hotel.

Travel up the highest mountain in Monteverde by aerial tramway, a unique way to discover Cloud Forest flora and fauna that might be only spotted from above.

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

Board your motor coach and travel to Quepos, located on Costa Rica’s central Pacific coast and known as the gateway to Manuel Antonio National Park.

Dinner and overnight accommodation in Quepos.

Day 8: Manuel Antonio

Breakfast at the hotel.

Although it is Costa Rica’s smallest national park, the breath-taking beauty and diversity of wildlife is unequaled in Manuel Antonio National Park; walking in this protected coastal area provides a great opportunity to experience the tropical wildlife that enriches the park A boxed lunch will be provided.

Board your motor coach and return to La Guacima de Alajuela

Dinner and overnight accommodation at El Rancho Lodge Share the stories of your travel adventures around a Camp Fire.

Day 9: Travel back Home

Breakfast at the hotel.

Transfer by motor coach from your hotel to the airport.

Say a fond Hasta Luego to your Costa Rican Prométour Tour Director.