Activities Included

Note: Reservation can be made for $399

*Default is shared double room, due to high demand private single rooms are currently sold out but working on getting more (Link for viewing here)

Day 1 – Feb 4th

Overview: Half day with pickup by guide/driver from SJO airport, say hello, drive to hotel, eat included dinner meal. Chill.

Airport Pickup:

The airport ride will be from the arrivals section of SJO airport in San Jose. The ride will be approximately 2.5 hours to the hotel and will accommodate your arrival times.

Lunch Note:

Lunch is technically before the trip starts. Options here: Happy Cow San Jose

Dinner:

Dinner is at the hotel restaurant or includes boxed vegan meal at pickup if your flight is later than dinner.

Hotel:

Location: Lands in Love Vegan Hotel

There is a pool and hot tub at the hotel so first night swim?

Hotel Website Here

Day 2 – Feb 5th

Overview: Go canyoning and then volunteer at the animal sanctuary like a real vegan.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner:

All meals are included by the hotel restaurant.

Activities:

Canyoning: Enjoy the experience of Canyoning at cloud forest reserve (~2.5 hours).

An easy hike of 10 minutes will lead to the starting point where your guide will brief you on equipment and safety procedures- you will then zip line to the first platform and rappel 6 meters into the canyon. After a 50 m walk, you will cross a suspended bridge. Followed by a 51-meter rappel into the falls, then another three at altitudes of 10, 14, and 18 meters. The tour continues to the “Super Tarzan Swing”. A tractor-drawn wagon will take you back to the starting point.

Sanctuary: During the day you’ll volunteer at the Animal Love Rescue Center and support 1,400 animals by helping the team of the shelter to walk, clean, and most important to give love to the animals.  

Hotel:

Lands in Love Vegan Hotel

Hotel Website Here

Day 3 – Feb 6th

Overview: Go rafting, get splashed, and then have a nice chill night tour.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner:

All meals are included by the hotel restaurant. Dinner is at Paradise Hot Springs.

Activities:

Rafting: Epic rafting journey approximately 15 minutes from Lands in Love Hotel with the added bonus of wildlife sightings along the water.

Night Tour: At night, walk in the cloud forest area of the hotel, and see birds, trees, flowers, orchids and other kinds of animals while getting explanations from your guide about these and enjoy the beautiful view of waterfalls and the river.

Hotel:

Lands in Love Vegan Hotel

Hotel Website Here

 Day 4 – Feb 7th

Overview: Visit Arenal Lake and Paradise Hot Springs

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner:

All meals are included by the hotel restaurant.

Activities:

After breakfast, the tour starts in a 3 km hiking trip through the tropical humid forest. Pass 15 bridges from five to 100 meters long and up to 60 meters high. Witness the spectacular scenery of birds, reptiles, mammals and insects. Take a tour to the volcano by hiking through the forest, plants, wildlife and around Arenal Lake. At the end of the day, enjoy the thermal water of Paradise Hot Springs for a few hours and have dinner there.

Hotel:

Lands in Love Vegan Hotel

Hotel Website Here

 Day 5 – Feb 8th

Overview: Exploring the rainforest canopy with ziplining and short hikes (~4 hours).

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner:

All meals are included by the hotel restaurant.

Activities:

Jungle Canopy Tour: Today is the combo canopy tour where you will experience the cloud forest which is full of colorful diversity, huge trees, vegetation, wildlife, birds and more. There are 500 acres of forest with amazing views from the cables and platforms, various trails, and the Tarzan Swing at a height of 845m.

Adventure cables consists of three long cables for extreme experience, longest cable between steel towers, high velocity of 50 mph (80 km/h), 150m above the hidden valley on superman style.

Hit the hotel pool and hot tub after!

Hotel:

Lands in Love Vegan Hotel

Hotel Website Here 

 Day 6 – Feb 9th

Overview: Crocodile Tour and Head to Manuel Antonio National Park.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner:

All meals are included by the hotel restaurant.

Activities:

Today depart to the central pacific coast, where Manuel Antonio is located. It is one of the most luxuriant locations in Costa Rica, with spectacular white-grey sandy beaches fringed by thickly forested green hills. On the way, crocodile’s adventure takes place on the Tárcoles River, one of four rivers flowing out into the Nicoya Peninsula, and home to one of the world’s largest crocodile populations in the wild with individuals up to fifteen feet long. In addition to them, over fifty different kinds of birds can be seen on site, including the very rare scarlet macaw and a great variety of resident and migrant waterfowl. Iguanas and Jesus Cristo lizards are very common as well.

Hotel:

La Foresta Nature Resort : https://www.laforestahotel.com/

Day 7 – Feb 10th

Overview: Manuel Antonio National Park visit. 

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner:

All meals are included by the hotel restaurant.

Activities:

After breakfast, Manuel Antonio National Park which preserves beautiful beaches, the unique formation of the Punta Cathedral, mangroves, a set of offshore islands and a humid tropical forest. The park has four beaches, each with its special characteristics. Our guide will take you through the park to see numerous species of butterflies, monkeys, raccoons, coatis, agoutis, two-toed sloths, snakes, orchids, etc.

At noon, your ‘Catamaran Island Adventure’ begins at Quepos harbor. You will head toward the horizon, cruising through the aquamarine waters toward the spectacular and scenic coastline of Manuel Antonio Park. Soon you will be in open water and on the lookout for spotted dolphins, migrating humpback whales, sea turtles and manta rays. You will be captivated by the sight of dolphins frolicking in the boat’s wake, or the inimitable sound of a whale’s song. As you make our way down the coastline of the park, the mysterious islands, jagged cliffs and unique rock formations will look almost close enough to reach out and touch. These are the nesting grounds and home for numerous species of marine birds, including pelicans, boobies and ibises. After touring the coastline, you will anchor in a protected cove within the pristine Biesanz Bay for snorkeling.

Hotel:

La Foresta Nature Resort : https://www.laforestahotel.com/

Day 8 – Feb 11th

Overview: Head back to the airport…waaah 

Breakfast:

Included by the hotel restaurant.

Return to Airport:

The airport ride will be from the departures section of SJO airport in San Jose. The ride will be approximately 3 hours from the hotel and will accommodate your departure times.