Guided Tours

Tours

Early Birds Tour Pigs, Twigs and Garbage Wild Waterfalls Soccer Matches with the locals Local Medicine Walk Therapeutic Massage Starfish Walk Hatha Yoga or Chi Kung lesson Rain Forest Ridge Walk Golfo Dulce Dolphin Tour The Osa Trail Plant a Tree in the "Volunteer Rain forest" Matapalo Tour Surf Lesson Sunset Birds Tour Caña Blanca Sanctuary & Dolphin Tour Night Walk Sea and mangrove Kayak tour Jungle Overnight Botanical Garden Corcovado National Park Tour The Carbonera School Self-Guided Trail

Lapa Rios Guide Biographies

The world-famous Corcovado National Park is one of the most biologically rich places on Earth and provides an excellent opportunity to see extremely rare and beautiful wildlife.  Accompanied by one of our guides, this tour includes a charter flight into Sirena Biological Station, lunch and transfers to and from Puerto Jimenez.  This tour truly provides visitors the chance to see the rainforests of Costa Rica in its most pure and pristine state. 

4 people max. Cancellation fee within 72 hours (Nov.-April), or within 24 hours (May-Oct.) is $100.

Additional Information:

GUIDED TOURS

COST: INCLUDES: GUIDE, TAXI & AIRPLANE TRANSFERS, PARK ENTRANCE FEES AND LUNCH, MINIMUM 4 PERSONS.

ITINERARY:

6:00 AM Light breakfast at Lapa Rios. 
6:45 AM Leave Lapa Rios by taxi to Puerto Jimenez 
7:15 AM Leave Puerto Jimenez by plane to fly to Sirena Station. 
7:30 AM Arrive Sirena Station. 4 hour walk on circular route returning to Sirena approximately 11:30. 
11:30 AM Relax and have lunch packed and prepared by Lapa Rios. 
1:30 PM 3 hour walk in the forest to Río Claro, optional swimming in Río Claro. Tour continues and returns to Sirena 
Station. 
4:30 PM Return to Puerto Jimenez by plane and return by taxi to Lapa Rios.

Highlights:

Excellent chances of seeing white-lipped peccary, tapir, spider monkeys, white faced cappuchins, squirrel monkeys and howler monkeys. Agoutis, coati-mundi, fresh tracks of jaguars, ocelot, marguay and mountain lion. Toucans, scarlet macaws, great curassow, crested guan, trogons, fierey-billed aracaris, honeycreepers, hummingbirds, herons, egrets, tinamous, parrots, woodpeckers, woodcreepers, antbirds, manakins, tanagers, caciques, euphonias, thrushes, hawks and vultures.

This is the real JUNGLE. 100,000 acres Corcovado National Park has approximately 375 species of birds, 125 mammals, 50 bats, 131 reptiles and amphipians, 850 trees, 1500 plants and ferns, and more than 6000 insects, bugs and creepy crawlers.

What to Bring:

Bicoculars, bird book, hiking boots, camera, hat, insect repellant and a waterproof pouch.

Have a great trip !

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h the primary and secondary forest, this trail features eighteen marked points of interest that correspond with a biologist's guide book available at the reception.  A great way to experience the natural beauty of the Osa Peninsula at your own pace.

No charge

View Self Guided Trail Map here

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Per tree $10

Join us for a tour of a local primary school built and sponsored by Lapa Rios Ecolodge.  An excellent opportunity to share and learn with the local community.  Highly recommended for children.

Depart at 8:15AM.
No charge

The Sustainability Tour:

Led by our sustainability coordinator, this highly recommended tour will take you around the lodges’ premises and allow you to witness first-hand our commitment to a greener and more sustainable way of life.  From biodegradable building materials to the biogas produced by our pigs, this is truly an opportunity you will not want to miss.

Wednesday. Easy, 1-11/2 hrs.

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