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Local Flavours of Costa Rica – 10 Days

Costa Rica’s 12 ecosystems make it nature’s paradise and a foundation for numerous eco-tourism opportunities. Take in the aroma at a coffee plantation and taste fresh pineapple juice. Learn how chocolate is made and how Quakers brought the art of cheesemaking to Costa Rica. Share a meal with the Malekus Indigenous Tribe or with the family of a locally owned horse ranch.  Watch artisans create colorful Ox carts and get up close with a sloth! A trip to Costa Rica is more than a visit, it’s an experience!

Day 1: Travel to Costa Rica

Bienvenidos a Costa Rica! Meet your Costa Rican Prometour 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!

Dinner and overnight accommodation at El Rancho Lodge

Day 2: La Pax Waterfall & Coffee Plantation

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.

Fulfill your Costa Rican coffee experience at a coffee plantation and roastery, breathe in the aroma of freshly-roasted beans while learning about the process.

Dinner and overnight accommodation at El Rancho Lodge.

Day 3: Grecia & Sarchi

Breakfast at the hotel.

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.

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

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

Board your motor coach and travel to Sarapiqui.

Dinner and overnight accommodation in Sarapiqui.

Day 4: Sarapiqui

Breakfast at the hotel.

Go to Hacienda Pozo Azul, a Costa Rican family owned ranch, where a horse will be assigned according to your riding experience. After a presentation on basic horse handling and safety procedures, start your guided trail ride of pasture, jungle and river.

Enjoy an authentic lunch with the family at their farm

On a Pineapple Plantation tour discover (and taste) how this certified eco-friendly, family-run organic plantation is cultivating pineapples in harmony with nature and its important contribution to the community.

Dinner and overnight accommodation in Sarapiqui.

Day 5: Arenal/La Fortuna

Breakfast at the hotel.

The Sarapiqui region is host to over 54% of the total Costa Rican bird species, discover its unique avifauna on a bird watching walk with a local birding expert.

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

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

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

Dinner and overnight accommodation in Arenal/La Fortuna.

Day 6: Malekus Reserve

Breakfast at the hotel.

Be greeted with a warm “kapi kai” welcome at the Malekus Indigenous Tribe Reserve; learn about their unique language, their customs and the medicinal plants they use, then make your own tribal mask with the help of the community.

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 7: Monteverde

Breakfast at the hotel.

Partake in a Sloth Tour, it will bring you up close and personal with some of Costa Rica’s most-adorable, furry critters as they simply hang out at along the treetops near the Arenal Volcano.

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

Board your motor coach and travel to Monteverde; covering eight distinct ecological zones, it is one of the most diverse wildlife sanctuaries in the Americas.

Experience a spectacular nocturnal walk through the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve to witness wildlife that is seldom seen during the day.

Dinner and overnight accommodation in Monteverde.

Day 8: La Guacima

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.

Learn how American Quakers brought cheese making to the region with a visit to a local cheese factory that now produces thirteen different varieties of cheese, including the popular Monte Rico.

Board your motor coach and return to La Guacima de Alajuela.

Dinner and overnight accommodation at El Rancho Lodge.

Day 9: San Jose

Breakfast at the hotel.

Learn to cook like a Tico with a hands-on and interactive cooking class of local cuisine.

Lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

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.

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 10: 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 Prometour Tour Director.

chocolate from Costa Rica