Activities in Central Valley.
Central Valley Canopy

Turu Ba Ri Tropical Park

Located: 7 km. southeast from Orotina. In the central valley but fairly close to central pacific.

Description: welcome to the biggest and most complete tropical park in America, a fresh destination with unspoiled natural environment and thoughtful commitment to sustainable tourism. In 595 acres, you will discover the best of butterflies, exclusive botanical collections, amazing forest trails, the most exciting adventures tours, Costa Rica’s cultural history, and much more…

Contact:
Tel: (506) 2250-0705

Colinas Del Poás

Located: 900 mts. North from Fraijanes, Sabanilla, Alajuela.

Description: The Poás Canopy Tour is the most popular adventure tour in the mountain. It follows a set of rigid quality standards and safety rules, according to international standards. With 24 platforms in the major trees, an extraordinary trail has been designed above the canopy forest. The tour, of approximately two hours, is an experience filled with excitement and joy, in which the visitor performs a journey through the treetops on fourteen cables suspended high above the jungle trails, with the help and under the supervision of highly qualified and professional personnel. This exciting adventure ends when you glide down on an impressive 1980-feet length cable. Our company has indeed the technical support of professionals and technicians, who permanently control the quality and perfect conditions and operation of the equipment, platform and cable installations.

Contact:
Tel: (506) 2430-4575

Canopy Adventure San José de La Montaña

Located: in the foot hill of Barva volcano, Heredia.

Duration: 4 ½ hours.

Description: One hundred percent costarican, a family owned business, with over 1400 acres out of which 700 are primary forest, Canopy Adventure is an eco-tourism project part of a program for forest protection and sale of oxygen.

The Canopy Adventure is only 30 minutes from the airport and 45 from down town San José, located in the nearest cloud forest from the central valley and at the foot the Barva Volcano. Because of the short drive to us, Canopy Adventure is a half day tour with approximate duration of 4 and half hours. We have thirteen platforms, eleven of those are constructed around gigantic oak trees, the zip lines made of galvanized stainless steel cables go from 60 to 600 feet most of them flying along the tree tops and some going on top of 60 feet tall waterfalls. During the tour you also take short walks on elevated trails that join the platforms together and you will also be passing inside the hollow trunk of an old strangulating ficus tree.

Contact:
Tel: (506) 2266 0782

Canopy San Lorenzo / Lands In Love

Located: San Lorenzo of San Ramón, on route number 272 on way to La Fortuna. Alajuela.

Duration: 2 hours.

Description: Two hours tour on zip lines above and between giant tree tops.

The guides, professionals, experienced and bilingual are ICT approved and certified. The installations built by civil and forestall engineers are approved by ICT and inspected on a regular basis according to the law. The tour starts at the highest point of a 500 acres resort; the guides will gird you with top safety harness and the best climbing gear available. After explanations on safety conduct, you will walk to the first platform, enjoying the view of the hidden cloud forest valley. Nine cables connecting to ten platforms on giant trees (total of an 845m) will lead you safely above the cloud forest, giving you the opportunity to witness the complexity and harmony of the jungle bio diversity. In between, you will cross two hanging bridges, walk through three jungle trails and experience the thrill of the Tarzan swing. The tour is adventuresome and fits all ages.   Exciting and adrenalin releasing experience. 

Contact:
Tel: (506) 2475-1351

Aventuras La Carpintera

Located: San Vicente of Tres Rios, Cartago.

Description: Our excellent combination offers; Horse Back Ride, hiking and the challenging adventure of our canopy zip line. Come with us and experiment one of the ways of watching and enjoy the pre mountain wet forest from Los Cerros De La Carpintera. The tour starts with a 30-40 minutes beautiful horse back ride inside the wet forest, during the pace an explanation about the forest and its life will be given. When we arrive to starting point will have a training at the Canopy School some minutes after will begin the adventure of 1800 meters of cable divided in 13 cables from different distances, 20 platforms. Between these platforms we will find landing by rappel, hiking through a path of 300 meters. The experience ends with a snack in our Hacienda Chirraca restaurant where will share the facts of the trip, some videos will be display with the performance of yourself.

Contact:
Tel: (506) 2278-3355

Rain Forest

Located: 5 km. after the Sucio river (Dirty river) in Braulio Carrillo National Park on route to San José.

Description: Visit Costa Rica’s safest zip-line canopy tour and effortlessly traverse the canopy and it’s hanging gardens under the supervision of our experienced guides. The exhilarating canopy tour takes you flying across the magnificent Molinete River several times. Walk trails lead you deep into the rainforest floor. You will be strapped in safe top-quality gear specifically designed for this canopy tour. Constructed with twin cables and a double pulley system. All this immerse at and part of the Rain Forest Aerial Tram Park, a real sanctuary that protects the rainforest and its intense biodiversity within a 475-hectare (1,200-acre) private reserve. The exhilarating adventure takes you flying across the magnificent Molitene river three times and walking trails lead you deep into the rainforest. Our expert naturalist guides will show you the way, helping you make the most of the adventure and unlocking the secrets of the rainforest. The tour consists of 7 zip lines with 6 platforms in between the stretches which provide the possibility of admiring a 360 degree view of the surrounding forest. The first cable starts from a ground platform and stretches 80 meters across Molinete River onto a Caobilla tree platform 12 meters above ground. From here a 140 meter cable runs across the river and over an island and finalizing at the base of a ridge to a ground platform. We walk to the next cable which brings us from the ridge to the middle of a gigantic tree known as Tostado. This tree is endemic to this area and is very rare. Once atop this tree platform we transport ourselves via a 90 meter cable to another Caobilla tree located at the edge of the river. Cable brings us back to land where we follow the trail to the main road or back up to the start to do it again!

Contact:
Tel: (506) 2257-5961

Canopy Urbano

Located: La Sabana Metropolitan Park, San José.

Duration: 1 hour.

Description: el recorrido se lleva a cabo por 7 cables y un puente colgante llamado “monkey ladder”, nuestro cable más sorprendente es el que pasa el lago de La Sabana con un aproximado de recorrido de hasta los 200 metros, desde el momento que se abordan las instalaciones, nuestro guías experimentados estarán a cargo de brindarle tanto seguridad como mucha diversión, haciendo de su recorrido un viaje inolvidable, Qué esperas atrévete!!!

Contact:
Tel: (506) 2215 25 44

Bosque Los Ángeles

Located: in the central valley.

Description: coming soon

Contact:
Tel: (506) 2461-4603

 

 
Activities in Central Valley.

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