Costa Rica Tour of the
Arenal Volcano and the Monteverde Rainforest
4 days/3 nights

Costa Rica Tour Details:

Tour Day 1: Your Costa Rica tour begins with a scenic drive with your driver/guide to Arenal Volcano, stopping en route at La Paz Waterfall Gardens for an up close view at a system of 5 different waterfalls and also for lunch. After lunch continue to Arenal. Dinner and overnight at the Arenal Observatory Lodge or similar.

From the Arenal Observatory Hotel, which is situated only 1.6 miles south of the volcano, visitors have an impressive view of this "giant which rumbles" and erupts with spectacular displays of vapor and lava.

The Arenal Observatory Lodge is the only lodge situated within the Arenal Volcano National Park, which encompasses thousands of acres of pristine rainforest and teems with tropical birds and wildlife.

Tour Day 2: This morning enjoy a hike with your guide inside the Arenal National Park through rainforest where monkeys, toucans and parrots are frequently seen. Continue over a cold blocky lava flow from Arenal Volcano that formed in 1992 and provides panoramic vistas of the volcano, forests, mountains and Arenal Lake. Return to the Lodge before being picked up and transferred to Arenal Lake for a 30 minute scenic boat transfer across a section of the lake.

On the other side of the lake you will be met for an approximate 2 hour transfer to Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, one of the most diverse and richest tropical cloud forests in the New World. It is best known as home to the Resplendent Quetzal but has hundreds of other birds, mammals and plant species. Overnight in Monteverde at Hotel Fonda Vela or similar. (BD)

Tour Day 3: Morning visit to the Monteverde Skywalk a Canopy walkway composed of hanging bridges and nature trails that lets you observe Nature from a different perspective. In the afternoon hike through the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve viewing the misty forest with its dense vegetation and majestic trees. Overnight in Monteverde at Hotel Fonda Vela or similar.

 Tour Day 4: Depart for San Jose, late afternoon arrival back in San Jose.

Note: If your planning permits you can continue to the Beach without having to go back to San Jose.