Plan your Costa Rica vacation YOUR way! Choose one of our Costa Rica Travel Packages, or build your own! - E-Mail Us email

Tortuguero Jungle Experience

Introduction

Tortuguero National Park and its surroundings is an area known worldwide for its richness in biodiversity. Everyday hundreds of tourists visit this wonderful waterway, embarking in motor driven skiffs and boats.

Tortuguero National Park There's no better way to enjoy Tortuguero's natural wonders than quietly navigating through it's amazing network of rivers, lagoons and canals.

Overnight at the beach-front Mawamba Lodge with it's rustic accommodations, two family style restaurants, swimming pool, Jacuzzi, ranchos with hammocks, Conference Room and many more amenities.

Day 1

After an early morning departure from San José, we will travel east, riding through Braulio Carrillo National Park. We'll breakfast at Río Danta. Now in the Atlantic lowlands, we travel through banana plantations until we reach the Caño Blanco pier where we will board the boat and travel first on the river, then on the canals up to the lodge. Lunch will take place at the lodge upon arrival. After lunch, explore with your naturalist guide the hotel local attractions including the butterfly farm, frog farm and garden, ranarium, aquarium, bio-digestor, and gardens. Free time to enjoy the pool, jacuzzi and surroundings or simply relax. Overnight and dinner at the lodge.

Tortuguero waterwaysDay 2

Early morning free time to join any of the optional tours offered at the lodge (boat tour, kayaks, guided walk) Return for breakfast at the lodge. After this meal departure by boat to a private trail, where you will enjoy a guided walk into the tropical rainforest. Following this tour return to the hotel for lunch. Enjoy in the afternoon a canal boat tour to spot wildlife. Return to the lodge and free time. Dinner and overnight at the lodge. Optional night walk into private trails at an extra cost (year round). Optional night tour to observe the turtle nesting at an extra cost during season: July to September.

Day 3

Tortuguero turtlesAfter a delicious breakfast check out and board the boat back to the Caño Blanco pier where we will meet the bus that will take you to San Jose. On the way we will stop for lunch at Restaurant Río Danta in Guúpiles town. Arrival time in San Jose around 4pm

Tour Details

Tortuguero Jungle Experience

- Type: EcoTours

- Location: Tortuguero

- Price: 3 Days / 2 nights $285.00/Person,

- Includes: ground and boat transportation, bilingual guide, accommodation, daily meals and tours as per description.

- Restrictions:luggage is limited to 25 pounds per person, the entrance fee to Tortuguero National Park is not included USD $10.00 per person. The order and logistics of the itinerary may change depending on weather conditions.

- Time: varies

- Duration: 3 DAYS

- Suggested Equipment:

line
line
line
Signup for Newsletter
line
Costa Rica Travel and Adventure NewsletterCosta Rica Travel & Adventure Newsletter why signup?

San José, Costa Rica, Central America
© Copyright 1997-2010. 2 Costa Rica

info@2costarica.com
Site Map - Company Policies

TOLL FREE
from U.S. and Canada:
866-799-2147
or dial 316-747-4737

Credit Cards Accepted