Activities and tours Costa Rica

The white water rafting operator we went with for this trip has closed permanently. There are other companies that offer overnight Pacuare River white water rafting trips. Lean in! Lean in! I automatically leaned into the boat, as we hit a huge rock and spun madly into the next rapid. The next thing I knew, […]

Come! Come! (Eat! Eat) I looked at the small brown seed in my hand, doubtful that this was something humans would consume willingly. But Catato, our guide eagerly gestured to his mouth, signaling me to have a taste. Luckily, I was trying a cacao seed, nothing too out of the ordinary and the bitterness seeped […]

For those interested in learning about Tico culture, a tour around Heredia, a capital city of one of the seven provinces, is an excellent choice. During our stay at Finca Rosa Blanca, we did a city tour to visit the colonial towns of Barva and Heredia, learn about the architecture and experience the daily local […]

Grecia is the perfect place for those looking to experience a small local town in the Central Valley, just 45 minutes from the country’s capital. Grecia’s location up in the mountains offers a wonderful playground full of forests, rivers and waterfalls, including these two beautiful waterfalls: the Los Chorros waterfalls. If you’re looking for a […]

Sitting in a beautiful area of the Cartago mountainside is the mysterious Finca Sanatorio Duran. Many people who visit Irazu Volcano drive right past it thinking it’s another abandoned farm when in reality, it was an important hospital back in the 1910’s – 1920’s for tuberculosis patients. Since the hospital closed in the 1960’s, it […]

*Update: The company we went with no longer offers snuba but they offer snorkeling and scuba diving.* Do you love snorkeling and don’t have your scuba diving certification? Try snuba! We did snuba in Costa Rica for the very first time and it was amazing. So if you want to do something more than snorkeling […]