Tour Authentic Costa Rican Jewels
7 Days and 6 Nights
Discover the magic of a primary rainforest and observe the abundant wildlife surrounding El Remanso Lodge. Explore secluded waterfalls, take a stroll on a deserted beach with tide pools and a lagoon, or wander next to small creeks deep in rainforest canyons. A large variety of activities can be enjoyed at the El Remanso Rainforest Wildlife Lodge. Highly knowledgeable guides will take you on thrilling waterfall rappelling, early-morning birdwatching, interpretative hikes, or a canopy tree platform tour. Also enjoy simply relaxing on the wooden deck of your cabin while watching monkeys swing through the surrounding trees!
Then, to learn about one of the most emblematic aspects of Costa Rica, the coffee culture. Travel to the beautiful coffee fields and green pastures the surround Chayote Lodge. This rich agricultural environment offers the best of a simple, traditional Costa Rican lifestyle. A life enriching experience for coffee lovers and people who love to learn about local cultures and traditions.
Highlights
- Remanso Lodge, a remote ecolodge in the Osa Peninsula
- Rainforest exploration by foot and canopy platforms
- Chayote Lodge, a place for people who love to learn about local cultures and traditions
- Learn about the Costa Rican coffee
- Small groups
- CRST has the best guides!
Itinerary
SAN JOSÉ
Bienvenidos!
Upon arrival to San José, Costa Rica a private transfer will be provided from the airport to your hotel in San José
If your timing allows you, my may enjoy dinner on your own at the hotel’s restaurant or venture out in the neighborhood and try the restaurant at Hotel Grano de Oro – one of the finest in the city – one block away.Â
OSA PENINSULA
Early this morning a transfer is provided to the airport where you board a domestic flight from San José to Puerto Jimenez (luggage restrictions apply). Upon arrival, you will be met for a land transfer to your lodge near Corcovado National Park. Overnight at El Remanso Lodge.
On the untamed Osa Peninsula, marking the remote southwestern tip of Costa Rica, wildlife is diverse, rare tropical lowland rainforest thrives, and our ocean tide-pools, dense rainforest trails, and roaring waterfalls add up to the castaway escape you’ve always imagined.
Welcome to El Remanso, an upscale wildlife lodge born of adventure, rooted in the wilds of Costa Rica’s last frontier, and interwoven with the Osa Peninsula’s most personalized and sustainable jungle experience.
Step into the forest canyon, where ocean breezes dance and 14 sustainable, upscale villas, bungalows, and rooms offer style and substance, overlooking your choice of view: dense rainforest, wildlife corridors, or the sparkling Pacific.
Delight in eco-luxury without compromise: All accommodations are 100% solar-powered – amply powered and with battery back-up, so you can enjoy your fans, charge devices, and take warm showers beneath starry skies. Any time of day or night.
Enjoy your three daily meals included in your stay – freshly prepared by their professionals local chefs who mostly use their own organic products.Â
INCLUDED
- Breakfast + Lunch + DinnerÂ
OSA PENINSULA
Today is one to enjoy the many local attractions at El Remanso Lodge. The beach trail is 800 meters from the main lodge (20 minutes) and you will find a vast virgin forest and magnificent isolated beach with lots of wildlife and exotic rain forest. There are also many hiking trails to enjoy, a canopy bridge, waterfalls, etc.
Suspended above the world you know, immersed in a world you don’t: El Remanso’s suspension bridges connect to the trails and dangle high in the rainforest canopy, eye-to-eye with dense and vibrant ecosystems impossible to explore from the forest floor.
One of the world’s last wildlife frontiers, the Osa Peninsula bustles with inquisitive squirrel monkeys, shy sloths, and predators in flight. El Remanso will happily tell its secrets, if only you’re willing to be patient.
There are many hikes that are self guided, though you may want to partake in an additional tour (at extra cost) during your stay
INCLUDED
- Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner
OSA PENINSULA
Today is another one for the books – your’s to enjoy as you please taking advantage of all the area has to offer!
ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
El Remanso Rainforest Wildlife Lodge Birdwatching
INCLUDED
- Breakfast + Lunch + DinnerÂ
NARANJO
This morning you will be transferred to the local airstrip in Puerto Jimenez – enjoy a 45 minute flight back to San Jose and continue your drive to the mountains of Naranjo, Alajuela (1 hour approx)
Chayote Lodge is located in a small village of about 400 inhabitants, 25 miles northwest of the airport in San Jose, on the way to the Arenal Volcano. The location is perfect to start or end a program in Costa Rica. Set on a hilltop at 5400 feet above sea level and surrounded by coffee fields and cloud forest, it boast amazing views to four volcanoes, Costa Rica’s Central Valley, and even part of the Pacific Ocean.
Its location in the heart of the country is a great getaway point to discover nature and an authentic opportunity to experience Costa Rica in a true way, where visitors blend into our culture and customs.
The richness of the coffee culture allowed the architects to design a very unique place, where locals and foreigners alike agree the result is simply beautiful. Each of the Recibidor Suites resembles a coffee receiving station and the decoration includes coffee sticks hanging from the ceiling, handmade painted furniture, coffee sacks decorating the walls, a coffee table that actually looks like a coffee bean, but not leaving out a luxury mattress and first quality linen. And all of this surrounded by cloud forest and it’s magnificent bird life.
Enjoy a very cozy dinner in the main dining room near the fireplace or in the porch – try the local desserts and enjoy the views of the Central Valley from your own bungalow. Overnight at Chayote Lodge (B)
INCLUDED
- BreakfastÂ
NARANJO
The area surrounding Chayote Lodge is known as an authentic Costa Rica paradise, but we rather call it “Chayote Country”. Tranquil local villages are home to farming families. Chayote Country is rich with coffee fields, sugar cane, and vegetable farms. Flower fields are also abundant and the famous Costa Rican cheese, “Palmito” is produced in this town.
A short hike from the lodge extending over 400 hectares of cloud and rain forest, you will find the El Chayote Forest Reserve. A peaceful reservation of primary and secondary forest sheltering abundant wildlife, and home to over 150 bird species, one of the richest places in Costa Rica for bird watching.
A permanent nature and ornithologist guide is part of the team in Chayote Lodge and will be pleased to take you to the most inspiring local places.
The activities are designed to introduce you to an authentic Costa Rican lifestyle and culture, where her kind people will make you feel as a part of the community. ‘Chayote Country’ is set aside from the mainstream Costa Rican destinations. It is an area that will let you feel and touch the elements that captivate every visitor to our country.
Today enjoy the Naranjo Coffee and Town Experience Tour, with lunch included.Â
Naranjo is a small town and home to some of Costa Rica’s best coffee plantations. Over two hundred years of coffee cultivation, have marked Naranjo as a mecca in the production of some of the finest coffees of the world, achieving several world awards for its quality.
Our first stop will be at the Espiritú Santo Coffee Tour; during this hour and a half we will learn all the secrets of why this famous drink has taken the world over. We will be able to learn about all phases of the coffee, from the bean to the cup.
The visit takes place in farm own by the local cooperative of coffee growers, where a landscape of rolling hills of coffee plants make a unique scenery. After our coffee tour, we will continue to the municipal market, where fresh vegetables, fruits, meats and other produce is for sale for the local inhabitants to buy. Our guide will tell us about the different fruits and explain how they are used in local homes. We will have lunch in one the eateries of the market. After lunch we will visit the local church, the Basilica of the Lady of Piedades, rebuilt after several earthquakes in the 1940s.
Enjoy a very cozy dinner in the main dining room near the fireplace or in the porch – try the local desserts and enjoy the views of the Central Valley from your own bungalowÂ
ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
Naranjo
INCLUDED
- Breakfast + LunchÂ
END OF ITINERARY
After your last authentic Costa Rican breakfast, we will provide you with your private departure land transfer to San José International Airport (1 hour approx) Â
End of services
INCLUDED
- BreakfastÂ
