Bérbeadó nyaralók itt: Quebrada Azul

This night hike takes place at Sloth's Territory is a total trail of 1300 meters, which extends along a natural forest surrounded La Havana River, into a total property of 10 hectares. At your arrival you will park at the Rodriguez Family's House, owners of Sloth's Territory. Their house works as reception, so it is a meet up point for waiting the start time of the activity. Right at the moment of your arrival, you will be greeted and welcomed by one of their family (normally Oscar, Keylor or Mauricio and the ones leading the project and the activity). Since the property is pretty big and it is a long trail, we will take you to the best specific locations to spot animals with nocturnal habits. Since the activity takes place in a wildlife environment, we can not guarantee you the specific species you will see but it is very common to observe: Centrolenidae (Glass frogs), Agalychnis callidryas (Red-eyed tree frog), blue jeans frog, Kinkajús, raccoons, porcupines, tent-making bats, basilisk, spiders, and some birds. Another possibility is to watch sloths, but the focus of this activity is to search for another kind of nocturnal animals. The duration of this activity can be from 1 to 1.5 hours, all depends of the biodiversity we can get each night and depending on weather conditions. Other things to note The hike is done in a natural environment, that's why we can't guaranty a 100% observation of named animal in the descriptions, but by our daily monitoring we know that it is very possible.

Sloth's Territory is a total trail of 1300 meters, which extends along a natural forest surrounded La Havana River, into a total property of 10 hectares. At your arrival you will park at the Rodriguez Family's House, owners of Sloth's Territory. Their house works as reception, so it is a meet up point for waiting the start time of the activity. Right at the moment of your arrival, you will be greeted and welcomed of one of their family (normally Oscar, Keylor or Mauricio and the ones leading the project and the activity). During the hike, the trail allows you to enjoy a gallery forest with lush vegetation and giant tree; constituting the habitat of many species like: opossums, two and tree-toed sloths, howler monkeys, blue jeans frogs, porcupines and many birds such as toucans, motmots, tiger herons, kingfishers tanagers and much others. But the main attraction are the sloths watching and the blue jeans frog watching. The Rodriguez Family have months of daily counting the sloths and we are sure that you will have the chance to see between 3 and 12 different sloths (from two and three toed-sloths). The duration of this activity can be from 1,5 to 2 hours, all depends if you want to focus just on the sloths or if you are interest of watching more plants and animals. Other things to note The hike is done in a natural environment, that's why we can't guaranty a 100% observation of named animal in the descriptions, but by our daily monitoring we know that it is very possible.

Don Juan Tours Arenal is a family business that through its tours teach visitors the whole process behind two very important products worldwide, Coffee and Chocolate. Our experience: Don Juan - Coffee and Chocolate Tour, will take you to know the entire Coffee process, from the seed to the delicious cup of coffee. Once the coffee tour is finished, we will start with the sweetest part of the tour, the delicious chocolate. Like coffee, we will talk about the entire Chocolate process, from the seed to the delicious chocolate bar and we will end up selecting some members of the group to grind the cacao beans and make their own chocolate bar. Once finished you will have the opportunity to taste several types of chocolate such as Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate. One of our main features is the infrastructure we have, since the Arenal Area is well known for having a very changing climate, it goes from being very sunny and humid to heavy rains, even with a electric storms on some occasions, that is why that 100% of our trails are protected and made of cement, which will allow to enjoy the tour on sunny or rainy days. Families with children who need to take their stroller or people with some physical limitation will not have trouble walking with a walker, crutches or wheelchair.

Al caer la noche, acompáñenos a descubrir el delicioso mundo del chocolate donde aprenderemos todo el proceso desde la semilla hasta la deliciosa barra de Chocolate, una vez finalizada la explicación seleccionaremos a algunos miembros del grupo para moler el Cacao para realizar su propia barra de chocolate. Una vez finalizado tendrán la oportunidad de degustar varios tipos de chocolate como el Chocolate Oscuro, Chocolate con Leche y Chocolate Blanco. Una vez terminada esta dulce aventura, recorreremos nuestra finca para adentraremos a la extraordinaria vida nocturna donde podremos ver algunas especies de sapos y ranas como el gran Sapo Gigante, la gran Rana Come Pollos, las pequeñas “Joyitas del Bosque” como la Ranita Reloj de Arena y la más emblemática de Costa Rica, la Rana de Ojos Rojos. Con suerte durante el recorrido podremos ver algunas especies de insectos, mamíferos como el perezoso y algunas aves nocturnas.

After booking our experience you will arrive at our place where you will be welcomed, Then we will go to the small restaurant where we will give some entertaining cooking classes, where our guests can learn to prepare a typical Costa Rican dish from start to finish using organic ingredients produced in our garden or bought at the organic fair in the area, after preparing the Breakfast and lunch depending on the one you choose, we will share it with our guests so they must come eager to try Costa Rican food since our experience aims to be unique and we must check it by giving our guests more than anywhere else, we will also give cooking classes breakfast or lunch, then we will take a small tour of our organic garden where we can see some of the products that we will consume. Family experience where you prepare and taste your own typical and organic food from the region, sharing with a Costa Rican family.