Costa Rica: Biology

9 days

San Jose & Cahuita

Itinerary

Depart for San Jose, Costa Rica
San Jose Airport Pickup; Hotel Check In
Program Orientation
Welcome Dinner & Group Discussions – The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a variety of menu options to cater all diets.

Breakfast – Day Briefing
Transfer to Caribbean Coast – Cahuita (approx. 3 hours)
Check In & Town Orientation
Group Surfing Lessons – The gentle waves of the Caribbean coast are the perfect place for beginners to learn to surf.
Nocturnal Wildlife Hike – This is a great way to discover a big variety of nocturnal animals that live in the coastal tropical rainforest. At night is when this area really awakens. The darkness will give a very different feel to the hike and their eye reflex makes it easier to spot animals.

Breakfast – Day Briefing
Cahuita National Park Wildlife Tour – Local Flora & Fauna.The park was originally designated as Cahuita National Monument in 1970, and re-designated as a national park in 1978.
Bribri Educational Day – Traditional Meal, Medicinal Plants, Chocolate Making, Sustaining Traditions, Discussions about Shamanism
Bribri Waterfalls

Breakfast – Day Briefing
Jaguar Rescue Center – A unique experience to interact with wild animals from Costa Rica while, supporting a good cause. The Jaguar Rescue Center, is a non-profit Organization, that works on rescue and rehabilitation of wild animals, and its future release into the wild, always in protected areas.
Lunch Break
Naturalist Tour of Manzanillo and Gandoca National
Park – The Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge protects almost 70% of the southern Caribbean coast and includes some of the area’s most beautiful beaches. The refuge officially begins at the Cocles River (one mile south of Puerto Viejo) and extends 19 miles south to the Sixaola River at the Panamanian border. The refuge protects beautiful beaches, coral reefs, lowland tropical forests and several of the country’s most endangered habitats including the only jolillo palm swamp in Costa Rica.

Breakfast – Day Briefing
Transfer to Tortuguero (approx. 3.5 hours)
Check In & Town Orientation
Lunch Break
Tortuguero National Park Wildlife Tour and Boat
Excursion – Tortuguero National Park is another significant turtle nesting site in Costa Rica including the endangered green turtle.Home to around 170 species of reptiles and amphibians, this park is also the habitat of 60 species of mammals and 300 different species of birds as well.

Breakfast & Day Briefing
Transfer to Arenal (approx. 3 hours)
Rio Fortuna Waterfall – La Fortuna Waterfall is a thundering, towering cascade of water that hurdles down a steep canyon along La Fortuna river near the Arenal volcano.

Breakfast & Day Briefing
Arenal Volcano National Park Wildlife Tour – The location of Costa Rica’s most active volcano until as recently as 2010, Arenal National Park contains a bizarre landscape of solidified lava flows, lush natural forest and tropical flora and fauna which includes howler monkeys, toucans and over 350 bird species.

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