The Monteverde Costa Rica Cloud Forest is one of the most famous conservation area in Central America. It's a tropical rain forest but because of it's altitude (1400 meters or 4.600 feet), it's called a Cloud Forest. It offers extraordinary biological diversity, incomparable scenery and a year-round temperate climate. Spectacular wildlife includes the Jaguar, Ocelot, Baird´s Tapir, Three-wattled Bellbird, Bare-necked Umbrella bird and the famous elusive Resplendent Quetzal.
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Description
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Camino Real Hike
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1.5 km hike along the San Luis River ridge
Intended as an orientation to the area
Allow 1.5 hours
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Casita trails
Búho-Zapote Loop
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1 km circuits of short trails around the dining hall area
Allow approximately one hour
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Ethno botanical Garden
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1.5 hectares of gardens and forest trails including a display of common edible and medicinal plants
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Cooking Lesson
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Learn how to make Costa Rican fare
Allow 30 minutes to an hour
*Reservations required-best in the afternoon
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Spanish Classes
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Classes tailored to your level.
Practice with our Costa Rican staff when you’re done!
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Insect-O-Rama
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Workshop on insect taxonomy. Collect some insects and then learn about their natural history. Includes a look at our teaching collection.
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Plant –ID-
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Workshop on tropical plant families. Collect some plants and learn how to identified the different families of tropical plants. Allow 1 hour.
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Finca La Bella coffee tour
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Tour through a small farm growing coffee, sugar cane, and vegetables-wonderful example of sustainability
*Reservations and translator required
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Coffee Mill Tour
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See how coffee is processed, including drying and roasting
*Amount of actual coffee being processed depends on the season
*Reservations and translation required
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Waterfall Hike
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4 km hike along trails and the San Luis River-challenging
Allow 3 hours roundtrip
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Horseback riding
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Experience San Luis in a fun and traditional manner-routes taken depend on weather and time allotted, but all have beautiful scenery
*Reservation and guide required
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Soccer Games
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Tournaments between local teams played on the fields in Bajo San Luis
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Milking
Birding
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Learn how to Milk Cows.
An early morning hike that starts at 6:30 am. Takes around 1 hour and 30 minutes.
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Description
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Suspended Bridge Walk
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Walk along bridges suspended in the forest canopy Go with a resident naturalist guide if available
*Reservations required-ask about transportation options
*Allow 1.5-2 hours plus 45 min. travel time
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Zip-lines
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Fly through the canopy in a series of cables
*Reservations required-ask about transportation and the differences between companies
*Allow 3 hours plus 45 minutes travel time
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Butterfly garden
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Guided tour of 4 gardens housing butterflies and interesting discussion of other insects
*Highly recommended
*Allow 1.5 hours plus 20 min. travel time
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Frog pond
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Guided tour of many frog species outlining their natural history-best if can be viewed in the evening
*Allow 1 hour plus 30 minutes travel time
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Serpentarium
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Guided tour of 40 reptile species
*Allow 1 hour plus 30 minutes travel time
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Santa Elena Reserve
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Cloud forest reserve owned and operated by the local high school-nice trails of varying lengths
*Ask a naturalist to go along on as a guide (if available and desired)
*Allow 2 hours to all day-plus 45 min. travel time
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Ecological Farm
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Reserve in which feeding stations are used to attract birds and mammals
*Allow 2 hours plus 20 min. travel time
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Bajo del Tigre Trail
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Self-guided trails administered by the Children’s Eternal Rainforest-fewer visitors so nice environment
*Allow 2 hours plus 20 min. travel time
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Monteverde Reserve
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Monteverde Cloud Forest Reseve
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