Thread: Costa Rica

Glad it helped a little.

Looking forward to hearing about your time in Costa Rica!

LuLu

Wow...Really interesting points of view! AllieMan and I adored Costa Rica. So much so that we told my Brother and SIL about it and they spent their entire honeymoon there. We did come in on the Pacific side, maybe that had something to do with it.

We did a volcano excursion and coffee fields...Sarchi was great with a lot of good souvenir shopping. I thought the people in Sarchi and San Jose were the nicest! The cloud forest was incredible...the butterflies were amazing! It was very wet and a litte cool (it was above 7000 feet) but I don't mind the nature hikes and getting a little dirty. I had a ball.

Can't wait to see it again in March 07.

Thanks Terry for this review. I've always heard such wonderful things about Costa Rica, I really hope I get a chance to visit one day!

I'm really surprised I haven't seen a plug for my favorite private tour operator in Costa Rica, Oscar Brown. Here's a synopsis of some of the possible tours that his sister Carol sent me this year by email. Everyone I've ever heard that has booked with him has really enjoyed his tours. We've done 3 with him now. On the most recent, he's changed restaurants, and it's one I'd go out of my way to visit just for the food, but it's also got an amazing view.

Note: the email to/from CR can be a bit flaky a times. If you don't get a reply, please resend. Carol is very good about returning mail.


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Carol Brown Daley [cbrown@costarricense.cr]
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Hi,
Thse are the tours I am offering for now.

Oscar allways remember the msot of the people that he take on a tour, because all of them are so special. He said he will love to take you again on a tour this year, if this is God's will.

Here a some info, on the different tours.

Tour #1.

The Tortuguero Canal tour is a tour through the rain forest, where as you go comfortable in a boat, you can see all wild life: alligator, monkeys, slots, different type of birds, Then I will take you to the Bamboo trade school, banana plantation, coco beans farm, City tour, a tour at the ANIMAL PRESERVE PLACE where you see while life and get personal contact with them (no snakes), a white sand beach, the rich area, and a surprise stop; witch will take you to the highest part of the city. I include soft drinks along the tour. We have a stop for the purchasing of souvenirs and coffee. This is $50 per person, and it goes for 5 hours.

Tour #2.

The Canopy tour: This is a sieve line where you switch from one three to a another: Hiking in the jungle., I include a stop on a white sand beach are a black sand beach, it is your chaise, a visit to the Bamboo trade school, banana plantation, coco beans farm, The animal preserve place, City tour, the rich area, and a surprise stop; witch will take you to the highest part of the city. This is $75 per/person, no extra charge. This include transportation and zip lining and a stop for the purchase for coffee and souvenirs . I will make the reservation, it is better that way. This tour is for 5 to 6 hours, sometimes more. This is depend on what the group want to do.

The one that don't want to do the zip line, only pay $35 for the transportation, and I will take them to a little village near by meanwhile the others do the zip line.

Tour #3.

Tour to the Aerial Tram:

This tour takes you to the highest part of Costa Rica giving you the best vie through the highest part of the country, in the rain forest. And the way to this place you see pine apple plantation, carne fields and rafting river. This is $50 for transportation and you pays $49.50 for the going on the aerial tram. Then After I will take you to a surprise stop. This tour is for 6 to 7 hours, I include soft drink along the road

Tour # 4

And I have the Costa Flores, and the butterfly tour, here you see lots of flowers all different variety , the same thing at the butterfly place, the only thing is that they charge to enter each places, and I make a special price for the transportation and to enter to both places; $80 per person, (they charge a fee to enter these places). I include in this tour, pine apple and banana plantation, a stop at a place where you see all different species of fish, soft drink along the road. With this tour you see and learn a lot more things of this country.

Tour #5

For the Sloth Sanctuary I include a visit to the Bamboo trade school, banana plantation, coco beans farm, City tour, the two biggest hotels around the coast, one is a botanical garden, and the other one has a nice vie on a tall hill, the rich area, and a surprise stop; witch will take you to the highest part of the city. This is $30 per/person, for the transportation, and to enter the Sloth Sanctuary you pay $25 and this include the canopy tour the gives in this place. So in all it will be $55 per person for every thing.

Tour #6

The Cahuita National Park and a tour on the beaches of Limon.

This tour take you to the Cahuita National Park of Limon, where they charge a donation to enter the park, and for a walk through the forest, and you have a chance to see, monkey, sloth’s, and other animals. And also, get the history and information of this particular forest.

For this tour I take your to see 2 different beach of the area; Cahuita beach, and Puerto Viejo beach. With these two beaches you have the opportunity to see the with sand beach and the black sand beach. (This is for the people who love to bead in the sea)

Besides, I include, soft drinks along the road, a visit to the Bamboo trade school, banana plantation, coco beans farm, City tour, the two biggest hotels around the coast, one is a botanical garden, and the other one has a nice vie on a tall hill, the rich area, and a surprise stop; witch will take you to the highest part of the city. This is $50 per/person, no extra charge.

You will have the opportunity to visit the installation of Colon Caribe, where you have one of the biggest souvenir shop. Are if you prefer, we will just go to the market to do your shopping, this is your choice.

This tour is for 5 to 6 hours, sometimes more

Some times I make a combination tour, so you can have more of this beautiful country. I combine the #1 and #2 tour, this with the special price of $110 per person. Or the #1 and the #3 tour for $100 per person. I will take you to the Animal Preserve place with any one of these tours.. They have no snake there. All the tours have soft drinks along the road.

Please reply so I can now for sure with one of the tour you'll will prefer to take.

God bless you and yours.

Chris, thanks for the above. Wish I had seen it before we went last year. Oh well. ...

Well- AllieMan and I are going to be taking a ship tour to the Sloth Sanctuary next month. Hopefully it will be fun. I'm not one for the zip-line thing, but since we did the cool weather tour last time, this time I wanted to see the warm-weather stuff! I'll report when I get back!