Monteverde Tours & Activities 2018
Index Monteverde Biological Reserve...3 Horseback Riding...4 Sky Tram, Walk, Trek...5 Hanging Bridges...6 Night Hike Tour...7 Don Juan Trapiche Tour...8 Don Juan Coffee Tour...9 Herpentarium & Snakes...10 Curi Cancha Reserve...11 Santa Elena Reserve...12
Monteverde Biological Reserve 3 Cost per person from: $90 Cost per child from: 4-12 years $65 Includes: Transportation, guide and entrance fee. What to bring: Long pants / jeans, hiking shoes, camera, binoculars, insect repellent, and rain gear. The Monteverde Biological Cloud Forest Preserve extends down both the Caribbean and Pacific slopes. The resulting combination of climatic and geographic factors creates temperature and humidity gradients which change dramatically over relatively short distances. Enjoy Splendid quetzals and bellbirds among other fauna in the Preserve.
Horseback Riding 4 Cost per person from: $60 Cost per child from: $55, Minimum age 6 years Includes: Transportation, entrance fee and guide. Difficulty Level: Medium What to bring: Hiking shoes, long pants and camera. This tour is enjoyed only 500 meters from downtown Santa Elena in a private farm of about 80 hectares. Ride trough forest, open fields, coffee and banana plantations; enjoy the spectacular view of the Nicoya Golf.
Sky Tram, Walk, Trek 5 Cost per person from: $95 Cost per child from: 9-12 years $65, Minimum age 8 years Includes: Entrance fee guide and equipment. Difficulty Level: Hard What to bring: Long pants or shorts, T-shirts, hiking shoes or sneakers and insect repellent. Enjoy all three activities or separate. Begin with a guided hike of the Sky Walk, which is a hanging bridges tour over the cloud forest. Following a short break, board the areal tram for the 30 minute ride on the cableway, where you will have another perspective of the flora and fauna. The Sky Tram ends on a wide observation platform, where you will begin the zip lining tour, one of top canopy torsion Costa Rica.
Hanging Bridges 6 Cost per person from: $45 Cost per child from: 9-12 years $35, Minimum age 9 years Includes: Entrance fee. What to bring: Hiking shoes or tennis, comfortable clothes, jacket or raincoat, insect repellent. Enjoy the Monteverde Costa Rica Cloud Forest by hiking through eight different bridges offering various lengths. Enjoy the flora and fauna at three its different levels; ground floor, middle and on or above the canopy of trees.
Night Hike Tour 7 Cost per person from: $30 Cost per child from: 0-4 years FREE, $30 Includes: Guide, entrance fee to the park, equipment. What to bring: Hiking shoes or tennis, camera, sun block, repellent. This tour starts at sunset, the time when most wildlife become active. Enjoy a very different experience as you can watch and listen to animals that you would not get to enjoy during day time.
Don Juan Trapiche Tour 8 Cost per person from: $35 Cost per child from: 5-12 years $15 Includes: Guide, entrance, lunch. What to bring: Confortable shoes or tennis, camera, sun block, repellent. Learn about the history and culture of the sugarcane mills. You will be able to extract sugarcane the traditional way and then enjoy a glass of pure sugar cane juice as well as a few pieces of the cane itself.
Don Juan Coffee Tour 9 Cost per person from: $35 Cost per child from: $30 Includes: Transportation, bilingual guide, food sampling accompanied by typical snacks and the option of an authentic home-made lunch. What to bring: Comfortable clothes, hiking or tennis shoes, sunscreen, hat, sunglasses and camera. The Don Juan Coffee This farm has a typical ox-drawn cart that you can take a ride in. The Tour lasts two hours and involves a half kilometers walk along an easy trail. Along the way, you will be astounded by the awesome canyons, waterfalls, and primary rainforest of Costa Rica.
Herpentarium & Snakes 10 Cost per person from: $15 Cost per child from: 0-4 years FREE, 5-12 years $15 Includes: Guide, entrance fee. What to bring: Hiking shoes or tennis, camera, sun block, repellent. The Reptile and Amphibian Exhibition in Monteverde is a one of the greatest in Costa Rica. Enjoy frogs, lizards, geckos and snakes, more than 30 species!
Curi Cancha Reserve 11 Cost per person from: $60 Cost per child from: $60 Includes: Bilingual nature guide, round trip transport and entrance free. Difficulty Level: Medium What to bring: Walking shoes, raincoat and repellent. This is a private wildlife reserve in the very heart of Monteverde Cloud Forest. During the guided hike at Puma Trail of about 1 mile length, which is the perfect spot for birdwatchers, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the quest of the resplendent Quetzal endemic and most representative bird of the area besides many other bird species and some mammals.
Santa Elena Reserve 12 Cost per person from: $67 Cost per child from: $55 Duration: 3 Hours Includes: Transportation, bilingual guide and entrance fee. What to bring: Long pants/jeans, hiking shoes, camera, binoculars, insect repellant and rain gear. Following an early breakfast, you will be picked up for one of Costa Rica s most diverse natural history walks. Situated atop the Continental Divide in western Costa Rica, the Monteverde Biological Cloud Forest Preserve extends down both the Caribbean and Pacific slopes. The resulting combination of climatic and geographic factors creates temperature and humidity gradients which change dramatically over relatively short distances. Splendid quetzals and bellbirds fly about the canopy of the forest, and iridescent hummingbirds hover around in search of nectar. Following the tour, return to the hotel.
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