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Crocodile Bridge & Carara National Park: Full Day Tour
Features
- Free cancellation available
- 1d
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
- Multiple languages
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Overview
- Full Day Safari at Carara National Park and Tarcoles River
- Wildlife Odyssey: Hike in Carara Park & Tarcoles River
- Carara National Park + Tarcoles River Crocodile Tour
- Full day of birding in Carara National Park and on boat trip on Tarcoles River
- Von San José aus: Carara-Nationalpark und Tárcoles
Activity location
- San Jose
- San Jose, San José, Costa Rica
Meeting/Redemption Point
- WWMC+533, C. Central Alfredo Volio, San José, Merced, Costa Rica | We will start your journey by picking you up in San Jose Central Park, and going on a scenic 1.5-hour drive along Route 27, making your way to your first stop at Carara National Park. Head straight out onto some flat walking trails suitable for all fitness levels and wheelchair users, and admire the biological reserve's abundant jungle life in person. Look up to the 40-meter high canopy, and keep an eye out for bright scarlet macaws, agouti rodents, stunning poison dart frogs, spider monkeys, dozens of birds, fantastic fungi, and huge wild cashew trees. Next, enjoy lunch like a local and eat at a traditional soda diner, where you have the option of eating fresh fish or seafood. Then enjoy a relaxing boat ride for some birdwatching on the Tárcoles River. Admire the river's mangroves, which are some of the most unique and scarce ecosystems of the world, and considered to be biodiversity hotspots. Keep a lookout for the 6-meter-long American crocodiles — the largest of the continent.
- San José, San José, Costa Rica
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Crocodile Bridge & Carara National Park: Full Day Tour
- 1d
- English
What's included, what's not
- Private One Day Tour
- Full Transport with A/C & Wifi
- Certified Driver
- Water
- Biologist or naturalist-certified guide
- Optical equipment (binoculars or telescope)
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Transport to the destination
- Stops for buying exotic fruits or souvenirs
- Lunch
- National Park Entrance Fee (Non-residents $12 must by paid w/ credit or debit card)
- Crocodile and Bird-watching Boat Tour through Tarcoles River ($28 must be paid in cash)
Know before you book
- In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
What you can expect
This full day tour will begin when you are picked up at the place you agree with us in San Jose Central Park or SJO Airport, from there you will be driven to the Carara National Park. From there you will go down and start a walk with your guide, who will be giving you information about the importance of this protected area since it is located in a transitional place in the transition from a tropical dry forest and the humid tropical forest.
One of the attractions of this park is the variety of animals and plants that you will have the opportunity to find, among these howler monkeys, white-faced monkeys, toucan iguanas and trogons.
Then you will be transported to the river Tarcoles, when you are there, begin a boat tour in which you can see many crocodiles while the guide you pointed out several species of birds and other animals that perch around the river.
*At the end of the tour you will be taken back to the place you agreed with the operator.
- This tour has a minimum of 2 passengers.
AVAILABILITY
May vary, please contact us.
DURATION
Full Day
TOUR LANGUAGE
English and Spanish
Location
Activity location
- San Jose
- San Jose, San José, Costa Rica
Meeting/Redemption Point
- WWMC+533, C. Central Alfredo Volio, San José, Merced, Costa Rica | We will start your journey by picking you up in San Jose Central Park, and going on a scenic 1.5-hour drive along Route 27, making your way to your first stop at Carara National Park. Head straight out onto some flat walking trails suitable for all fitness levels and wheelchair users, and admire the biological reserve's abundant jungle life in person. Look up to the 40-meter high canopy, and keep an eye out for bright scarlet macaws, agouti rodents, stunning poison dart frogs, spider monkeys, dozens of birds, fantastic fungi, and huge wild cashew trees. Next, enjoy lunch like a local and eat at a traditional soda diner, where you have the option of eating fresh fish or seafood. Then enjoy a relaxing boat ride for some birdwatching on the Tárcoles River. Admire the river's mangroves, which are some of the most unique and scarce ecosystems of the world, and considered to be biodiversity hotspots. Keep a lookout for the 6-meter-long American crocodiles — the largest of the continent.
- San José, San José, Costa Rica