You will leave France at 1.40 pm and arrive in Costa Rica on 8 January at 6.30 pm.

Your local English-speaking guide will meet you at Juan Santamaria airport and transfer you to your hotel.

Welcome cocktail (non-alcoholic fruit juice) and check-in at the hotel.
Free dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Discovery of the historic centre on foot

Lunch and afternoon free.

Free dinner and overnight at the hotel

Departure to the Central Valley via the road overlooking the legendary city of Cartago, the former capital of Costa Rica, which will lead you through the misty countryside to the imposing Irazu Volcano (3432 meters above sea level) and its lunar landscape park (easy access by foot).

Lunch in a local restaurant.
High up on the fertile slopes of the Turrialba Volcano is Aquiares Estate. It is a unique agricultural model that symbiotically integrates a community of 1800 people and a coffee farm that surrounds the town.

On this coffee tour you will learn more than just about coffee, you will discover a very important part of Costa Rican culture, but also the history of this village founded around coffee.

Dinner in the city centre.
Overnight at the hotel.

Visit to the city of Puerto Limon, the country's main export port.

We continue to the south where the small seaside villages of Cahuita, Puerto Viejo and Manzanillo have developed. Welcome to the unique atmosphere of the Afro-Caribbean culture!

Lunch.

Visit to the Cahuita Coastal National Park.
This national park has over 1000 hectares of forest, 600 hectares of reef and 22400 hectares of ocean. 35 species of coral, 44 species of crustaceans, 128 species of algae, 500 species of fish, and countless animal species, including white-faced monkeys, have been recorded here.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel

Departure to Yorkín, where you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in an exceptional setting in the middle of nature and have a direct approach with the indigenous people of the Bribri community.

A trip up the river of about 1 hour, before arriving at the reserve.
Visit and explanation of medicinal plants during a walk in the forest. You will even have the opportunity to bathe in the river.
Return to the reserve and have lunch with local specialties under the main rancho.

In the afternoon, a walk among cocoa trees, introduction to the cocoa production process, presentation and tasting. Demonstration and initiation to the making of palm roofs and handicrafts.

Dinner at the community.

Overnight stay in the wooden rooms in a house near the main house.

Departure to the Sarapiqui region after a morning with the Bribri community.

Lunch en route.

Arrival at the hotel.
Visit to an ethnobotanical garden containing the remains of an ancient indigenous community. The garden also contains multiple plants that the natives used as medicinal remedies.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

after breakfast at the hotel, visit an organic pineapple plantation

You will ride through the fields on a trailer and pulled by a tractor, see, smell, touch and even taste pineapples.
Life in the countryside is an important part of Costa Rican heritage. So let yourself be immersed in the world of organic farming a la tica.
Lunch
Continuation to Arenal.
Arrival and accommodation with a family in Juanilama. From 2 to 4 people per family.

Breakfast with the families.

Return to Juanilama for an integral rural experience.
Beyond showing you how, where and what we plant, we want our visitors to get involved with their own hands in every possible process. And what better guides than the real farmers of a lifetime

Lunch with the community

On a course of some 3000 metres, you will cross the rainforest on paths linked by 8 fixed and 6 suspension bridges.

The succession of paths and bridges allows you to appreciate the flora of this tropical rainforest from a different perspective, from the roots to the canopy.

Dinner and overnight with the family.

Breakfast with the families and then it's time to say goodbye.

Lunch en route.

Walk along the trails of one of Monteverde's private reserves. The cloud forest in this area is home to the famous and very rare Quetzal.

The trees are festooned with orchids and bromeliads, moss, ferns and all sorts of vines grow everywhere thanks to the high humidity in the air.

Arrival and installation at the lodge.
Dinner and overnight stay.

After breakfast, departure for the discovery of the central region of Guanacaste: cattle breeding area with landscapes of pampa and savanna. Cowboy and ranchero atmosphere... This dry region of the northwest, joined Costa Rica by a referendum. The population here is much more mixed, we are on the lands of the descendants of the Chorotegas. The road now reaches the Interamerican, the legendary road that connects all America, from Alaska to Chile.

Discovery of the Rincon de la Vieja National Park

Lunch en route.

A two-hour walk on a relatively easy route in the "Las Pailas" sector. Discovery of the tropical dry forest, its mud pots, its fumaroles and its gigantic trees. Many trees are parasitized by Ficus Matapalo, which grow around their victim until they overtake it and suffocate it.... The trees are often doubly gigantic. This forest is criss-crossed by streams and veins of burning gas that have created "cauldrons" of boiling mud. You will feel the earth at your feet!

Arrival, welcome cocktail (non-alcoholic fruit juice)

Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

Departure for the Pacific.
Continuation through the fields and villages of Guanacaste, to finally arrive at the Pacific coast.
Lunch en route.
Arrival in Samara. This authentic village is bordered by a magnificent beach with a coral reef. Swimming is recommended.
Check-in at the hotel.

Dinner at leisure Overnight at the hotel

Breakfast at the hotel.
Relaxing by the Pacific Ocean
Lunch and dinner are on your own.
Overnight at the hotel.

Transfer to Juan Santamaria airport for your return flight with your driver (without guide) around 2pm.

Your flight is scheduled for 20:50 for arrival at Paris CDG at 14:25.