Coast to Coast Honeymoon Adventure

Meeting and greeting at the San José International Airport by our staff followed by a private transfer to  your Hotel in San Jose. Our staff will help you with  the check- in and will give you the Welcome Kit with important information about your trip and will review the itinerary with you.

Hotel includes: 2 hours open bar, free international phone calls – WiFi- daily breakfast.

Early pick up at the Hotel to take you to Tortuguero, breakfast on the way. Arrival to Caño Blanco pier and 2 hours motor boat transfer. Arrival to the lodge for lunch. Afternoon visit to Tortuguero Town and Turtle Center.

Meals and Tours included.

** For today we recommend taking the tour to see turtles, it has to be arranged at the front desk of the hotel ( Tickets not included). You can also book it for the second night in case that you don’ t have any luck on the first night.

Day in Tortuguero, visit to the canals. (Entrance fee to the National Park is not included, as this has to be paid directly at the park, $10 per person). Tour can be in the morning or afternoon, it will depend on the itinerary.

Today you can also visit the butterfly garden, frog garden and the trails around the hotel. Optional tours are offered at the lodge

Breakfast at the Hotel

2 hour motor boat to the pier where you board the bus for your return drive to Siquirres.  You will be dropped off at a restaurant where the rafting company Rios Tropicales will be waiting to take you to their  Operations Center where lunch will be served.  You’ll then depart for our private rafting put-in on the Pacuare River in San Martin. There your professional guides will load your gear into dry bags, prepare all the rafting equipment, give you complete safety and paddle instruction.

The first day’s Class III rapids welcome you to the Pacuare gorge’s charm as you raft deep in the heart of primary rainforest. Along its course lie several densely vegetated gorges sheltering many animals, including sloths, river otters, and anteaters, and an incredible variety of birds—toucans, egrets, herons, kingfishers, sunbirds, and trogons.

Before you know it, you’ll arrive at our unique Rios Tropicales Lodge where you can spend the afternoon relaxing, hiking or soaking in our waterfall and pools. Nestled in the jungle on our 2,000-acre private reserve, the Lodge offers you all the comforts you need in “Cabecar Indian” style bungalows.

Orosi Valley – Up and over the Continental Divide – Biking 49km/30mi

Today we tackle the hardest, steepest climb of our adventure. The challenge before breakfast is mountain biking a 14-kilometer up-hill stretch to the Continental Divide, bringing us to an altitude of 2,330 meters – the highest peak of our journey. Following the rule that everything that goes up must come down, the remainder of the day is mountain biking at its best – mostly downhill on dirt roads and single-track trails. We finish the afternoon in the beautiful Orosi Valley where rich pastures and dark green forests of coffee carpet the land and we rest for the night in the town of Orosi.

After breakfast, we mountain bike along a river to the Tapantí National Wildlife Refuge. This is an area of vast rugged terrain covered with dense primary rainforest.

Leaving our bikes, we take to the mountains trekking amongst thousands of trees covered with ferns, bromeliads, mosses and other epiphytes… a primary cloud forest ecology. The end of the day finds us on flatter ground, camping near the small settlement of Humo.

After breakfast we continue mountain biking towards the whitewater rafting “put¬in” at La Cruz,the upper gateway to the raging Pacuare River. We eat lunch then load up into the rafts to paddle and PADDLE through pristine rainforest, canyon cliffs, spotted with deafening waterfalls. By afternoon we arrive at our comfortable riverside camp, El Nido del Tigre, nestled between the sounds of the rainforest and the hum of the river. You can wander off to explore this lush environment, looking out for toucans and boa constrictors and sloth, or simply relax in a hammock to the sounds of the river.

We spend some quality time at this unique location on the banks of the Pacuare River, hiking the hills, exploring primary forest, swimming in the Pacuare, exploring waterfalls and swimming holes with water so pure you can drink it (most of the year). This area of rainforest remains in a very natural state, with minimum disruption to accommodate our guests. El Nido del Tigre is the name of the giant ginger plants carpeting the area around the campsite. It’s a very private place, with small numbers of guests, so the sense of purity and nature seep into your dreams at night.

Today the Pacuare takes us through virgin rainforest, cascading waterfalls and river carved canyons. We maneuver through the exhilarating rapids and in gentler sections you can see into the rainforest at the river’s edge. Along the way we take time out to do some hiking to spectacular waterfalls and have lunch on the shore. At last, in the late afternoon, we take-out at the beginning of the banana plantations at Finca Pacuarito, then rest for the night..

THE SWEET TASTE OF SUCCESS…This morning we jump on our bikes for a short ride through banana plantations to the town of Freeman where we begin the final leg of the traverse in kayaks down the Pacuare leaving the rapids behind as the river eases into the Caribbean lowlands where banana plantations gradually swallow the receding rainforest. The river slows to a tranquil pace as we are rafting the last mile of the river, completing the mosaic of the landscapes we have experienced. At the end of the adventure, we reach the mouth of the Pacuare as it meets the Caribbean Sea, celebrating our passage with bubbly in the surf, while enjoying a well-deserved rest. After some time on the beach we are picked up by a motorboat and transferred to Moin from where we travel by vehicle to the beach.

This morning we will have a private transfer from Cahuita to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca.  Here you will be able to spend the next few days relaxing on this stunning and laid back beach town with a typical Caribbean feel.

It has stunning beaches, jungle, and some fun nightlife it gives you a great opportunity to relax.  Please note the waters around are for ‘hardcore’ surfers due to the riptides but safer waters can be found further north if you are looking for snorkelling.

Free days at leisure to explore the beach and the surround areas.

Free morning at your hotel or beach before taking a shuttle transfer to San Jose.   Your journey back to San Jose will still give you some great sights as you pass through high cloud forest, misty mountains, deep, steep, river-carved canyons and the spectacular Braulio Carrillo National Park.

Private transfer to the airport in time for your flight home.