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| Costa Rica Adventure
An 8-Day tour starting from $2,440
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| Discover one of the richest ecotourism destinations in the world on an adventurous, active journey that takes you off-the-beaten-path into Costa Rica’s rainforests and jungles, where you’ll see nature’s incredible world of wonders. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Featured Dining:7 Breakfasts, 6 Lunches, 7 Dinners Unique and Distinguished Hotels in the Best Locations: Night 1 Real InterContinental Costa Rica: Escazú, Costa Rica Night 2,3 Monteverde Lodge: Monteverde, Costa Rica Night 4,5 Tilajari Resort: Muelle, Costa Rica Night 6,7 Tortuga Lodge: Tortuguero, Costa Rica Insightful Tour Directors During your travels, you have the pleasurable advantage of being with a Tauck Tour Director who is fully knowledgeable about the destination, its history and its culture. You can relax knowing that you are accompanied by a professional who manages the flow of events... a problem-solver (in the unlikely event a problem should arise)... an insider who saves you precious time... and a friend who will help transform your trip into a truly memorable journey. Every Travel Expense is Included When you travel with Tauck, you’ll save up to 40% on the cost of traveling the same itinerary on your own. What’s more, virtually every major travel expense is included: Along with most meals, your hotel accommodations, cruises, sightseeing, admissions to museums, galleries and theaters – even taxes and port charges – are built into the price of your trip. Guests are often delightfully surprised at how much is included. You can practically leave your wallet at home! A Tauck vacation offers you both superb quality and extraordinary value.
Day 1. Arrive San José
Tour begins: Real InterContinental Costa Rica at 6:00 PM. Welcome to Costa Rica, home to beautiful cloud forests, lush rainforests, and tropical jungles. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel, surrounded by tropical gardens within a fashionable San José suburb. Join us this evening for a welcome reception and dinner. Meals D Day 2. Monteverde Cloud Forest Travel to Monteverde today. Discover the unique ecology of the region with an expert naturalist, as you walk across suspension bridges crisscrossing the forested canyons of the tree canopies, rich with birdlife and wildlife. Stay in a jungle lodge in the middle of the cloud forest, much cooler than the hot, humid lowland forests, and home to colorful toucans, agouti, and monkeys. Meals BLD Day 3. Monteverde Butterfly Garden Learn all about butterflies from the unique, sound-producing Calico to the beautiful Blue Morpho at the Monteverde Butterfly Garden, dedicated to educating visitors about the vast array of butterflies and insects native to Costa Rica. Situated between the town of Santa Elena and the Monteverde Reserve, and home to more than 50 native butterfly species, the garden features a biodiversity center, a medicinal plant garden, and four climate-controlled butterfly gardens, each representing a different Costa Rican habitat. Meet naturalists who provide you with detailed information on the complex life cycles of these beautiful insects. Meals BLD Day 4. Arenal Volcano / Hot Springs A drive past some of Costa Rica’s abundant coffee plantations and cattle farms takes you to Arenal National Park, a 30,000-acre park that preserves eight out of Costa Rica’s 12 biological zones and is home to Arenal Volcano. One of the world’s most active volcanoes, cone-shaped Arenal has been continuously erupting since waking from a long slumber in 1968. Plumes of smoke – and sometimes flowing lava – can be seen spewing from its top. Take a short cruise across majestic Lake Arenal today, and enjoy a therapeutic soak in private volcanically-heated hot springs before continuing on to your rainforest resort for a two-night stay. Meals BLD Day 5. Penas Blancas River Float Trip Head into the jungle today for a gentle float trip down the scenic, wildlife-rich Penas Blancas River; your bilingual guide will help you spot giant iguanas, sloths, crocodiles, monkeys, and other wildlife on the shore. Stop along the way to visit the home of a local farmer and his extended family. Return to your resort, nestled along the banks of the San Carlos River in the heart of Costa Rica’s most noted ecosystem, for an afternoon spent as you please. Tilajari Resort offers a wide variety of adventures celebrating its array of natural treasures, as well as activities such as tennis and horseback riding, and botanical and butterfly gardens to explore. Meals BLD Day 6. E.A.R.T.H. / Journey to Tortuguero Depart for the Caribbean coastline of Costa Rica; visit E.A.R.T.H., a private agricultural university specializing in the tropics, where you’ll learn about the educational programs designed to seek a balance between agricultural production and environmental protection. After enjoying lunch at E.A.R.T.H., depart Costa Rica’s dense interior rainforests and continue on to Tortuguero on the Caribbean coast. A cruise through jungle-lined canals brings you to your riverfront lodge within Tortuguero National Park, which in the summer is one of the world’s largest and most important nesting sites for green sea turtles. Accessible only by boat, Tortuga Lodge is surrounded by landscaped grounds and orchid-filled gardens; keep an eye out for turtles, caimans, otters and crocodiles in the river, or sloths, spider monkeys and toucans in the trees. Gardens of blooming flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds by day, and by night the songs of howler monkeys are heard. Meals BLD Day 7. Tortuguero National Park One of the most varied of Costa Rica’s national parks, Tortuguero has 11 ecological habitats ranging from high rainforest to herbaceous marshes. Spend the day exploring the park on private morning and afternoon cruises through the region’s waterways accompanied by a naturalist guide, who shares insights of the diverse sights you may see in the water and along the shore. Visit the town of Tortuguero for a glimpse of daily life and learn more about the region’s endangered sea turtles at the Caribbean Conservation Learning Center. Join us tonight for a farewell dinner. Meals BLD Day 8. Journey Home Fly to San José this morning on a private charter flight. Tour ends: San José Santa Maria Int’l Airport at 10:00 AM. Allow a minimum of 21/2 hours for flight check-in. Note: Some flight schedules may require additional nights in San José; hotel accommodations and airport transfers can be arranged – ask at time of booking. Meals B
“Sky Walk” in a Cloud Forest
Explore the forested canopy of the Monteverde Cloud Forest when you take a rigorous walk among the treetops along a sky walk on hanging suspension bridges! Jungle Float Trip Look for giant iguanas, sloths, crocodiles, monkeys and parrots on a float trip down the Penas Blancas River in the heart of a tropical rainforest. Soak in Private Hot Springs The volcanic activity of Arenal Volcano has produced some of the world’s most therapeutic hot springs – enjoy an opportunity to soak in the hot medicinal waters. Butterfly Garden Learn all about butterflies from the unique, sound-producing Calico to the beautiful Blue Morpho at the Monteverde Butterfly Garden, dedicated to educating visitors about the vast array of butterflies and insects native to Costa Rica Visit E.A.R.T.H., a private agricultural university specializing in the tropics, where you’ll learn about the educational programs designed to seek a balance between agricultural production and environmental protection. Tortuguero National Park Spend the day exploring the park on private morning and afternoon cruises through the region’s waterways accompanied by a naturalist guide, who shares insights of the diverse sights you may see in the water and along the shore.Visit the town of Tortuguero for a glimpse of daily life and learn more about the region’s endangered sea turtles at the Caribbean Conservation Learning Center. All tour prices are per person, in US dollars.
2008 Rates: Single Occupancy Rate = $2,940 Triple Occupancy Rate = $2,499 Holiday Departures - December 22,29 Single Occupancy Rate = $3,140 Triple Occupancy Rate = $2,699 2009 Rates: January – April 13; December 14 Departures Single Occupancy Rate = $2,968 Triple Occupancy Rate = $2,492 April 20; November Departures Single Occupancy Rate = $2,768 Triple Occupancy Rate = $2,292 December 26, 28 Holiday Departure Rates Single Occupancy Rate = $3,168 Triple Occupancy Rate = $2,695 |
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