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Visit the town of Sarchí: We invite you to visit the home of Costa Rican crafts. In Sarchi you will find leather creations, jewelry, toys, brass accessories, and wood with other materials created with different techniques. It is the ideal place to acquire a beautiful souvenir from your visit to Costa Rica.
- Poás Volcano is one of the most spectacular volcanoes in the country. Its crater is enormous, a kilometer in diameter and 314 meters deep with a heated lake in the bottom that is way too hot for bathing!
- Private Reserves Hidden Valley : Get ready to admire a landscape filled with coffee and sugar cane plantations. The next stop is at one of the most beautiful rain forests in the country. We recommend you bring along good walking shoes, a raincoat or poncho, and insect repellent
- Cavalcade and "canopy ride " in Hidden Valley: Do you like to experience something different and daring? A mixture of nature and horse back riding is exactly what we recommend for you. Enjoy one day in this sensational hiking area and discover the secrets of the Hidden Valley Private Reserve. Lunch included
- Poás Volcano and Sarchí: This combination offers the possibility to visit one of the most beautiful volcanoes in Costa Rica, then having time to go for a walk in the lands that surround it, including a visit to the picturesque town of Sarchí. It includes entrance and lunch.
- Arenal Volcano and Tabacón Hot Springs: Few places in Costa Rica inspire more respect and admiration than the Arenal Volcano. Because of its height the peak is often covered by clouds, although if nature permits you can often see lava flowing from the peak, or even a spectacular eruption!
A visit to the Tabacón hot springs lets you enjoy the healing benefits of bathing in naturally heated water flowing through a series of large pools. Take your pick of a variety of temperatures.
- Try a One Day Visit to a coffee plantation, the Poás volcano, a cloud forest with waterfalls, and a rain forest. You'll see the Sarapiquí River and as we return to San José you'll observe the Braulio Carrillo National Park. Although it sounds like a lot in one day, the trip is a totally enjoyable experience.
- A visit from San Juan to the mountainous area of San Ramón's where the experience of the canopy tour takes a special meaning. Here you'll see a mystic tropical cloud forest, its small inhabitants, and its characteristic vegetation.
- San Carlos on the other hand, offers a landscape of exceptional beauty with its forests, lagoons, cultivated fields, and rivers of hot water flowing from the most active volcano in Costa Rica: Arenal. In short... sanctuaries where you can perceive peace, purity, and the majesty of nature. The area of San Ramón, famous for its cloudy and rainy tropical forests highlands, features a variety of epiphytes, mosses and ferns, along with more than 225 species of birds.
Costa Rica Rural Tours
Alajuela
PO Box 2535-3000 Heredia, Costa Rica
(506) 237-3400 from USA / (506) 262-1891 fax
