Private Tour

Local authentic cultural experience

Overview

Available languages

English

Spanish

5 hours

Mobile ticket

This immersive local cultural tour from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Experience Costa Rican history, cuisine, culture and traditions while learning how local communities live and work. This tour includes high-quality private roundtrip transportation with air conditioning, full insurance and a bilingual professional local guide. Visit the Tempisque River to observe the river’s traditional work with ox-drawn carts, explore Iguanas Park where you can feed iguanas, and travel through local villages to learn about architecture, distances, and everyday life. Discover the famous Blue Zone, where people usually live for more than 100 years, visit a small village known for its artisan clay ceramics handed down from generation to generation and enjoy a hands-on culinary experience in a local house using a traditional wood-fired clay stove.

Additional Info

Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What To Expect

Santa Cruz

Embark on an exclusive private adventure from 7:30 to 4:30 with high-quality transportation and a professional bilingual local guide. Start your journey by visiting a stunning freshwater waterfall, where you can swim and relax in the tranquility of nature. Then head into the lush rainforest to watch wildlife in its natural habitat, including sloths, toucans and vibrant frogs of various colors. Continue to a coffee plantation, where you will explore the fascinating coffee and chocolate production processes and taste their rich flavors firsthand. The day concludes with a refreshing dip in the turquoise waters of Rios Celeste, a natural wonder. A delicious traditional Costa Rican lunch is included.

5 hours • Admission Not Applicable

What‘s Included

Private transportation

the entries

Lunch

Air-conditioned vehicle

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Reviews

5.00

6 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Great day in the Rain Forests!
G7186FAmikes,,Aug 13, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Awesome experience! Easy booking and excellent price! Worth using him for all your off property adventures! Much better price than the hotel!
Fantastic adventure
daniellekA6637DZ,,Jun 13, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
It was an amazing trip with Humberto and Ellie. They were very knowledgeable and gave us great information, most importantly fun as well as an authentic cultural experience. We did zip lining, sloth tour, waterfall and ate at an amazing delicious authentic restaurant.. our family thoroughly enjoyed it and would do it again next time!
Great Experience!
T2717ZTtylerr,,May 7, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Gino was amazing and knew all of the places to find local wildlife and excellent photo opportunities! Would highly recommend!
Big Papi and Melvin ******
S2374IKjjj,,Apr 28, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Booked our hike and sloth walk with Aron the Big Papi. Our guide was Melvin. Both are awesome friendly guys. Melvin was the best ever. Accommodated our every need and kept us comfortable. He took us to where they had great food and beautiful rain forest atmosphere. Way better than being on the resort. From start to finish both guys made our experience unforgettable, we cannot say enough good things, highly recommend working with them for any excursions.
Amazing Tours, wonderful people
Daydream25943317064,,Mar 5, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Had the most wonderful time, private tour, just the 3 of us made it even that much more special and memorable Rainforest, coffee & chocolate, local lunch & Falls with Gino was amazing, Gino made sure we knew the history of Guanacaste and the hidden wonders. Guide at the rainforest knew his stuff, made sure we saw as much as possible and helped with some AMAZING PICTURES, the girls at the coffee & Chocolate were a lot of fun and knowledgeable Lunch was amazing. The server was so nice, kind, and a lot of fun as well, and the falls were just what you need at the end of a HOT day, refreshing !!! FISHING, once again, private tour, just 2 of us. This was our first time ever fishing on vacation, Johnathan and Billy made sure we caught some fish, and we lost a few, much different than fresh water fishing .... they knew their stuff for sure and passed that knowledge on to us! Look up Big Papi and friends. They will take great care of you and your loved ones. They will also become great friends for life!
Brilliant tour guide.
katieo195,,Feb 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Javier was an amazing guide. Great day. Able to experience lots of different activities without travelling too far. Zip lines and tubing were the best.