Costa Rica & Guatemala Attractions & Activities
It is hard to believe that until a decade ago, Costa Rica was a remote and undiscovered tropical paradise.
Costa Rica is attracting more than a million tourists every year with its pristine beaches, winding rivers, magnificent forests, panoramic vistas and incredible wildlife.
Today, Costa Rica is highly regarded as one of the world's greatest adventure areas.
Costa Rica has diverse wilderness areas, gorgeous scenery and world class wildlife viewing.
Guatemala Attractions and Activities
Sail Fish Bay Lodge is situated on a small island that faces the Pacific and the beaches have excellent swimming and surfing.
Guatemala offers 5 excellent and well maintained private golf courses with scenic views of volcanoes.
Antigua is nestled between three volcanoes and is among the oldest and most beautiful cities in the Americas. Its majestic setting and cobblestones streets make Antigua a stunning town even the most worldly traveler can appreciate.
Tikai National Park is part of the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, which is home to hundreds of wild birds and animals including; howler monkeys, jaguars, toucans and parakeets. Five enormous temples dominate the jungle.
Lake Atitlan is considered one of the world's most beautiful lakes. Lake Atitlan is a magical setting to visit and relax. Exploring the Mayan villages, horseback riding and bird watching are a few of the many activities that can be enjoyed around the lake.
Horse Back Tours
There are many areas to go horseback riding, both on the Osa Peninsula and outside of Zancudo and Golfito. Climbing onto the back of a spirited horse can be a great way to spice up your vacation. The selection of horseback excursions ranges from morning trail rides, afternoons on the beach, or an entire day ride. Horseback tours provide an excellent opportunity for bird watching, you may be able to see white-faced monkeys and other wildlife. Your experienced guides will show you the cowboys view of Costa Rica.
National Parks
A great diversity of a lush and biodiverse tropical forest next to the Pacific sea shore! The National Parks offer a combination that many researchers. photographers, and nature lovers have found irresistible. Aldea del Rio's eco-tours will give visitors easy access to Corcovado Nation Park, considered to be one of the most important natural preserves in the Americas. This virgin rain forest has at least 13 distinct vegetation types in close proximity, including mangroves, palm swamps and bloodweed. Jaguars, giant anteaters, white-lipped peccaries, tapers, monkeys and a host of rare rain forest animals inhabit the vast reaches surrounding the crocodile-filled lagoon at the park's center. Visitors to the park return with tales of close jaguar sightings, white-lipped peccary herds, and sizable scarlet macaw flocks.
Tours
Explore the Sierpe River by Ponga. You'll ride through the mangroves and enjoy an exploration tour. You will see crocodiles and caymans in their natural habitat and for watch kingfishers, woodpeckers, and all sorts of marsh birds as they fly freely in the wild. You'll stop along the way where your tour guide will explain to you the ecology of the mangroves. Your whale-watching tour begins from our the dock in Sierpe and will take you to the warm, crystal clear waters just off the Osa Peninsula which is home to a variety of whale and dolphin species and are ideal for whale and dolphin viewing. Tour guests will have the opportunity to view and interact with humpback, pilot and false killer whales, and spotted, bottlenose and spinner dolphins.
Surfing
Costa Rica has a tropical climate and enjoys year-round water temperatures around 80 degrees. It has 2 separate coasts, the Pacific and the Caribbean, and receives swells from many different directions depending on the time of the year. There are over 50 well-known, named surf breaks and just as many lesser known ones.
For many in search of the perfect wave, the search has ended in Costa Rica. Long stretches of beaches provide thousands of beach breaks. Numerous rivers offer quality sandbar river mouth breaks, particularly on the Pacific coast.
River Rafting
We can make arrangements for a scenic paddle up the jungle lined Sierpe river where you will be able to see some white-faced monkeys, many exotic birds, boat-billed herons and other wild life in the mangroves.
The El General River offers approximately 68 miles and 140 rapids of class III, IV and V. While navigating the rapids, you'll pass by cascading waterfalls, magnificent flora, and local wildlife. The tour lasts a complete day.
Canopy Tours
The exhilarating experience of a canopy zip line tour cannot be matched by any other activity in Costa Rica. It will be the closest you''ll ever come to flying! A Canopy Tour consists of suspension cables on which a person will travel from platform to platform while enjoying the beauty of the forest canopy. It is one of the safest and most thrilling adventures available for tourists in Costa Rica designed by experts. You will wear a specially designed harness to ensure your safety. At the end, you will land on a platform high up on a tropical tree. The staffs at Aldea del Rio and Zancudo can make your arrangement for this unique adventure.
ATV Tours
Enjoy a Costa Rican adventure and have the ride of your life!!
Ride your own ATV through the rainforest and explore what the rivers, waterfalls, beautiful ocean views and experience the variety of plants, birds and other wildlife.
