Choose your half day at Aromal: a sabanero-led trail ride, or herding cattle with techniques passed down for generations.
Pick one when you arrive: saddle up for a trail ride, or work cattle alongside the sabaneros.
The ride follows wildlife-rich trails behind a traditional sabanero in full Guanacaste attire. Deer, armadillos, raccoons, and tropical birds all live along these paths.
The herding option drops you into the real thing, using techniques the sabaneros have passed down for generations. Either way, you travel from your hotel in an air-conditioned vehicle, with a naturalist guide covering local history and wildlife on the road.
Final price depends on your pickup point.
We pick you up at your hotel or the airport and handle the full route, door to door.
Driving times are approximate.
One of them plans your day, picks you up and brings you back. Who exactly depends on the date.
Around twelve years in Costa Rican tourism. On the drive between Guanacaste and Arenal he points out how fast the landscape and climate change, and shares the history of both regions along the way. His picks: the Palo Verde boat safari and Rincón de la Vieja's Pailas trail.
Twenty years guiding Costa Rica as a general and naturalist guide, with a special passion for botany: he points out plant adaptations, ecological relationships and the quiet work that trees, flowers and lianas do in the ecosystem. His favorite day is Palo Verde, where wildlife, tropical wetlands, cultural traditions and history meet — and the birdlife is spectacular.
Twenty-two years in tourism, from restaurants to tour sales to driving and guiding. Místico is his favorite trail: rich in wildlife, easy to walk, and full of the forest's secrets. On transfers north he loves the moment the dry Pacific crosses an invisible line into rainforest green.
