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
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