Costa Rica Bliss: Unveiling Pura Vida Magic on Your Dream Holiday. Highlights 2024/2025

Day 1 – Depature → Finca Rosa Blanca, Alajuela Valley, Costa Rica

You will fly to Costa Rica’s capital, San José.

Welcome to Costa Rica. You will be met at the airport by your Earth Trip representative and driven (20-30 minutes) to your suite at Finca Rosa Blanca, a lovingly restored coffee hacienda set in the Alajuela valley under the cone of Poàs volcano. Set in rehabilitated tropical forest, it’s tranquil haven in easy reach of the airport. Hummingbirds flit around the heliconia-filled garden and pool and a coffee estate (producing some of Central America’s best coffee) lies at your feet. The farm to table restaurant and bar is superb, as is the organic breakfast. Meet & greet and transfer transportation included.

Location: – San José/Alajuela;  Hotel: Finca Rosa Blanca;  Board: Breakfast

• Board Includes:
• Breakfast

Day 2 & 3 – Finca Rosa Blanca → Tortuguero National Park

This morning you will leave for a land transfer to the 19,000 hectare Tortuguero National
Park on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. The drive – which takes just under 3 hours, is one of
Central America’s best – over the country’s central cordillera mountains, through lush forest
and down to the coastal lowlands. At the road’s end you will rendezvous with a launch
which will take you to your lodge in the heart of the park (30-40 mins); expect to see
caimans on the river banks and white-faced capuchin monkeys in the trees . You will spend
the next three days exploring Tortuguero. The park covers a vast swathe of lowland and
gallery rainforests, channeled by rivers and creeks and fringed with long sweeping Caribbean
beaches. The wildlife is superb – with 60 mammals species (including jaguars and tapirs),
more than 300 of birds and nearly 170 amphibian and reptile species, including the country’s
iconic red-eyed green tree frogs. Transportation, morning & afternoon guided wildlife tours & park
entry fees included.

Location: – Tortuguero; Hotel: Laguna Lodge; Board: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner;

Hotel: www.lagunatortuguero.com

• Board Includes:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner

Day 4 & 5 – Tortuguero → Arenal

Today you will journey to the stunning, perfectly conical volcano at Arenal (2 hours drive).
Along the way you will pass through the lowland rainforest at Sarapiqui on the edge of the
vast rainforest-swathed Braulio Carrillo National Park (look out for views of the towering
Barva Volcano and for cackling Scarlet Macaws in the trees).

Arenal is is one of the best nature and wildlife sites in Central America. Your hotel, which sits in tropical gardens trilling with tanagers has wonderful views of the volcano – framed by the palms, tropical flowers and banana leaf foliage. The spa is fed by hot spring water from the volcano itself and the wall-to-ceiling windows of your suite open onto private balconies with Arenal Valley views.

During your stay you will take like hikes along the wildlife-busy rainforest trails around the
beautiful La Fortuna waterfall and on a trail running over old lava fields and cutting through
pine forests that shroud the volcano itself.
Transportation, La Fortuna and Arenal 1968 Trail guided wildlife hikes & all entrance fees included

Location: – Arenal;  Hotel: Arenal Manoa;  Board: Breakfast

• Board Includes:
• Breakfast

Day 6 & 7 – Arenal → Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve

After breakfast you will take a boat across Arenal Lake – a wonderful journey in the shadow of the volcano, from where you will be driven to the famous Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve. This is one of the best birdwatching destinations in Central America and the key preserve for one of the most spectacular birds in the Americas, the resplendent quetzal. It’s a magical spot. Trails run through misty forests shrouded with moss and lichens and with myriad orchids in the trees. Glades reveal stunning clear mountain views out across rainforest-covered ridges to the distant coast.

As well as quetzals, pumas, ocelots, margays and capuchin monkeys live in Monteverde,together with dozens of rare hummingbirds – like iridescent green-crowned brilliants, and brilliant-purple violet sabrewings. Look out for tiny bright-yellow bananaquits in the bushes and listen out for the bizarre ringing call of the three wattled bell birds. At night you can often see bush-baby-like olingos in the trees. Your visit includes a hike in the living heart of the cloud forest – the canopy itself, along one of the longest suspended forest walkways in the world, the 2.5 km long Monteverde Sky Walk. Your jungle lodge sits in a private 10 hectare reserve right on the edge of the Biological Reserve. Transportation, Monteverde Reserve guided wildlife hike, Sky Tram and Walk & all entrance fees included.

Location: – Monteverde; Hotel: Heliconia Cloudforest;  Lodge Board: Breakfast;

• Board Includes:
• Breakfast

Day 8 & 9 – Monteverde → Manuel Antonio National Park & Pacific Ocean

This morning you will be transfered to Manuel Antonio National Park on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. Your journey takes you from the high cordillera, through coffee fields and rural villages before you reach the rugged, beach-fringed coast. Along the way you will cross the Tarcoles River Bridge – famous for overlooking mudflats covered with basking corcodiles and green iguanas (travel time about 4 hours).

The forests of Manuel Antonio National Park swathe a peninsula jutting into an aquamarine Pacific and fringed with two, long, creamy half moon beaches. It has some of the best seawater swimming in Costa Rica. Your hotel, which boasts a luxurious pool, sits right on the beach front, surrounded by monkey-filled woodland. Over the next two days you will split your time between unwinding and taking guided wildlife walks into the national park.Transportation, guide and park entrance fees included.

Location: – Manuel Antonio National Park;  Hotel: Playa Espadilla;  Board: Breakfast;

• Board Includes:
• Breakfast

Day 10 – San José Juan Santamaria Airport → To your destination

This morning you will be transfered to the international airport for your flight back to your destination.

• Board Includes:
• Breakfast