This is the full Palo Verde day: river safari, a music-and-dance welcome, a guided rum tour with tasting, and lunch at Hacienda El Viejo.
This is the version that packs everything in. The first stretch belongs to the river: a quiet boat run on the Tempisque while your naturalist guide finds crocodiles, monkeys, iguanas, and tropical birds, explaining the wetland and the work that keeps it protected.
Then Hacienda El Viejo takes over. The historic ranch receives you with traditional music and dance, followed by a guided rum tour and a tasting of the real thing.
Lunch closes the day: Costa Rican cooking made with fresh local ingredients.
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.
