
Tour · 13 nights · with G Adventures
A 13-night small-group tour with G Adventures through Costa Rica’s national parks and wildlife refuges, including Tortuguero, Monteverde, and Manuel Antonio, blending nature walks and cultural experiences.
Highlights
Boat tour of Tortuguero canals
Turtle Love Conservancy visit
Tortilla making with local family in La Fortuna
Lecture and reforestation at Monteverde Institute
Excursion to Manuel Antonio National Park
This small-group tour with G Adventures takes you through Costa Rica's varied landscapes over thirteen nights, starting with Tortuguero National Park on the Caribbean coast. There, you’ll cruise quiet waterways notable for their wildlife and learn about sea turtles at the Turtle Love Conservancy. The journey proceeds to La Fortuna, near the Arenal Volcano, where a local family invites you to learn the craft of tortilla making. At Monteverde, the cloud forest provides a cooler glimpse into rainforest ecology, and you hear from a researcher at the Monteverde Institute while helping with the reforestation project.
Journeys
Finally, the tour moves to Manuel Antonio on the Pacific coast, where pristine beaches lie alongside a national park offering straightforward hikes and wildlife viewing. The travel involves boats, shuttles, and walking, avoiding any rush, with colour-from-the-forest views and the chance to appreciate Costa Rica’s "pura vida" way of life. Accommodation alternates between hotels and a simple jungle lodge reachable only by boat, where service interruptions may occur due to its remoteness.
Throughout, your National Geographic Expedition Leader guides the way, with local experts enriching certain visits. This is a tour that gradually unfolds Costa Rica’s ecological and cultural variety, attentive to details like the gentle sound of rainforest life and the scent of fresh coffee at a cooperative cooperative near Sarapiquí.
Itinerary
Tortuguero
La Fortuna
Monteverde
Manuel Antonio
These are the places the trip visits, in order. G Adventures publishes the day-by-day itinerary on its own site.
When to go
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Need to know
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The operator
Small-group tours around the world
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