Costa Rica - Beaches, River & Rainforest Adventure
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Price: From $1,638 ($342 single supplement)
Dates:
Jan 05 2008 - Jan 13 2008
Jan 19 2008 - Jan 27 2008
Feb 01 2008 - Feb 09 2008
Feb 16 2008 - Feb 24 2008
Mar 01 2008 - Mar 09 2008
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Costa Rica - Beaches, River & Rainforest Adventure Itinerary
(Host City: San Jose, Costa Rica)Day 1: San Jose airport reception
Day 2: Fly to Carate, Osa Peninsula
Day 3: Corcovado National Park
Day 4: Corcovado National Park
Day 5: Travel by air and ground to Savegre
Day 6: Descend Cerro de la Muerte
Day 7: Raft the Pacuare River
Day 8: River rafting take-out, return to San Jose
Day 9: Airport shuttle, flights home
From the Field: Costa Rica Tours
At Austin-Lehman Adventures, our guests are our best ambassadors. Here’s an excerpt from one traveler’s journal about her Costa Rica vacation:"This was one of my favorite vacations! It was an active trip coupled with tons of cultural awareness and nature. This is my idea of a great vacation!"
~ Gail DiLisio, North Salem, New York – 2006 Costa Rica Getaway Adventure
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Costa Rica – Beaches, River & Rainforest Adventure
It's day 3 of your Costa Rica getaway. You're deep in the heart of Corcovado National Park and have just spotted a spider monkey. She sits at eye-level on a low hanging branch of a cocobolo tree, nibbling a leaf, following you with dark, round eyes as you approach. When you're a few yards away, you stop and stare at each other, blinking. Time stands still. And then, in one graceful swoop, she's off, swinging effortlessly like a long-armed gymnast from branch to branch until she disappears into the forest.
Spider monkeys are a common site in Corcovado National Park, deemed "the most biologically intense place on Earth" by National Geographic. And while Corcovado is known as the "crown jewel" of Costa Rica, it's just one of many natural wonders in a country home to more species of wildlife and flora than any other place on the planet.
Costa Rica tours bring you face-to-face with spider, howler and white-faced monkeys. Hike jungle trails, Pacific beaches and ancient oak forests. Raft the wild and scenic Class IV Pacuare and pitch a deluxe camp on a secluded beach. Discover first hand how early indigenous hunters used the toxins from the tiny poison dart frog and reward yourself at the end of each active day with a good night's sleep in an exquisite hotel, tent camp or mountain lodge.
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Distinctive Accommodations
9 days/8 nightsNights 1 & 8: Hotel Don Carlos
Located just a few blocks from the central plaza in downtown San Jose, this hotel was once an old Victorian-style mansion. It has 38 rooms, all with private baths, a bar, restaurant, sundeck, gym and souvenir shop. The hotel also offers an impressive collection of Costa Rican painting and sculptures.
Nights 2 - 4: Corcovado Lodge & Tent CampCorcovado Lodge & Tent Camp offers both a main palm-thatched lodge and a cozy bar/hammock room with twenty platform sleeping tents. Sleep between the pounding surf and the living wall of the jungle and enjoy all the comforts of home in a 10-sq. foot walled tent, 20 meters from the bathroom and shower. If you love truly remote, wild and beautiful places, Corcovado Lodge & Tent Camp is for you.
Nights 5 & 6: Savegre Mountain Lodge
Savegre Mountain Lodge boats 20 cabins at 7,200 feet above sea level. Perched on a family farm with a clear trout stream running through it, the Lodge is surrounded by one of the finest examples of highland cloud forest on the planet and is set in a valley so spectacular that a postcard photographer might pass it up because nobody would believe it was true. Cabinas Chacon and the surrounding private nature reserve provide all the basic comforts.
Night 7: Deluxe Pacuare River Camp
Deluxe camp with sleeping bags, pads, sheets and tents provided.
Costa Rica - Beaches, River & Rainforest Adventure
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A few more reasons why you've gotta go:
- For the tree canopies: from your platform 120 feet above the forest floor, you'll experience the rainforest from a seldom-seen perspective.
- The scarlet macaws: where else can you count 15 of them feeding in a tree?
- The fishing: it's a little known fact that rainbow trout abound in the Savegre River, a fly-fishing paradise.
- The heart-pounding thrill of Pacuare River: considered to be one of the world's Top 10 river journeys.
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