Top Alajuela Outdoor Activities

You don't need to travel far from San Jose to enjoy a rain forest adventure with your family. This tour takes you straight from your hotel to the wilderness for a thrilling canopy tour: fly down 10 zipline cables, cross two hanging bridges, and free-fall on a Tarzan swing, all while looking out for wildlife like birds, monkeys, and sloths.

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Zoo Ave is an important center for animal rescue and rehabilitation, with a vast natural landscape, ornamental gardens, a large number of native and endangered species. This general admission ticket provides entry to the zoo and allows you to explore at your own pace. Learn about local wildlife, see a variety of well-cared-for animals with ample space to thrive, and observe animal rescue and rehabilitation in action.

El tour tubing es la gran actividad donde puedes conocer los mejores paisajes de rio celeste y su gran energía es un tour para disfrutar de la naturaleza con una pincela de aventura

Start your day as you hike across the Arenal Hanging Bridges and see the jungle from high above the forest floor. Your naturalist guide will teach you about Costa Rican culture, history, while you experience what we like to call "nature therapy." After your adventure on the hanging bridges, you will head to the Arenal Volcano National Park.The trails are generally flat and not very strenuous -- perfect for a leisurely and informative hike with one of our naturalist guides! Once you're done in the national park, you'll get to try delicious Costa Rican food that makes you feel good -- there are plenty of vegetarian options, gluten free, lacteos free and vegan, too, available. Then, you'll finish the day at the stunning La Fortuna Waterfall. When you reach the bottom, you'll have an opportunity to take lots of pictures and swim in the cool waters of one of the largest and most breathtaking waterfalls in Arenal!

When in La Fortuna, going on a zipline canopy tour is a must. This option not only lets you fly down nine ziplines measuring up to 1,000 feet (300 meters) long, but also includes access to swimming pools, a ride through the rain forest, and a chance to learn about Maleku culture.

The sloth is one of the most emblematic animals of Costa Rican fauna. These small and friendly creatures are sweet, beautiful, and always appear happy, with an eternal smile painted on their faces. We would love for you to join us for an adventure through La Fortuna's beautiful spotting areas for more wildlife to locate them. This experience is designed with the entire family in mind. It is very common to spot these small mammals hiding among the vegetation. But our expert guides know all their secrets and tricks! We will also learn interesting facts about some of the fabulous plants we spot along the way. Due to its location and type of flora, this areas are also heavily populated with birds. To complement a morning or afternoon full of wildlife, we will be able to appreciate many species of birds in the area.

Meet your guide at your hotel in La Fortuna for pickup. Drive to the Balsa River, learning about the area through insider commentary from your guide along the way. Get a perfect taste of the mountainside wilds around the Arenal Volcano in one crazy fun combo of two exciting sports: waterfall rappelling and white water rafting. You will be guided by professional guides and be provided with the highest quality safety equipment. All you have to do is sit back, relax, and prepare yourself for the adventure of a lifetime! Upon arrival, attend a safety briefing and practice your strokes. Then, hit the water with your river guide, safety kayaker, and professional photographer. Paddle down Class ll and III rapids and see Costa Rican wildlife in its natural habitat throughout the rafting portion. Welcome to the best white water and wildlife on the best Arenal rafting trip!, the top adventure tour in Costa Rica for anyone seeking thrills in the environs of the mighty Arenal Volcano!

Experience a Sarapiqui rafting adventure on the most exciting section of the Sarapiqui River. You will love this exciting, intense adventure through the Costa Rican jungle! Make your way through exciting rapids like “Morning Coffee,” “The Terminator,” and “Dos Locos.” Peer up at the canyon walls dripping with waterfalls and take in the majestic views of the mountains and volcanoes in the distance.  Our highly qualified Instructors will make you feel comfortable and safe while rafting. Plus, they will point out a variety of birds, wildlife, trees, and other flora and fauna along the way.  This activity is perfect for intermediate rafters, or those who are physically fit and are willing to paddle and work as a team. The minimum age to participate is 14 years and must be comfortable in white water, in good physical condition, and be able to paddle. 

Costa Rica may be small, but this country is full of striking coastlines, mountains, rivers, waterfalls, volcanoes, and rainforests—making it the perfect destination for outdoor adventurers and adrenaline junkies.

The farm is very close to San Jose and offers three daily tours (9:00, 11:00, 1:30) Corso combines Culture, nature and rural landscapes. Suitable for the whole family.

Experience Poas Volcano National Park, learn about Costa Rica's coffee industry, and see one of the only metal churches in Central America on this tour. You'll start with the volcano, where you'll get to check out fantastic landscapes, continuing to an included lunch at the Doka Estate. It's then on to Grecia to see the metal church, with a stop to see local artisans at work in the town of Sarchi.

Help the refuge to support these animals that have been found in different places in Costa Rica, have been abandoned and mistreated, with your help we can continue to contribute to this place, to gradually release these animals to their natural habitat. Taking advantage of the visit to Guanacaste, we will know one of the beautiful beaches of our country. Our service of more than 9 years makes us support all these initiatives with national and international tourism, with the best customer service on board and offering more than a one-day tour. We stop for photographs, fruits, among other things that our clients want to observe, during the tour we will know more than what we can describe here.

A unique and different experience in CR. Our team will always go beyond the Venado Cavern Tour. Transportation is exclusive, comfortable, clean, safe. We will always deliver the best customer service. The quality of all our tourist products go beyond what we offer. The human charisma that we have with our tourists is that we take them to know more than a tour, making more than friends during all the more than 9 years of operating in Costa Rica and other countries. Enjoy CR and we handle and program everything for you, your family or your friends, it will be a pleasure to always serve you.

As one of the most popular parks in Costa Rica, Manuel Antonio National Park is a must for visitors. This guided tour from San Jose makes visiting on a time crunch a cinch—your guide takes the guesswork out of deciding which trails are worth the effort, plus helps you spot wildlife along the way. This tour is specifically timed to avoid the crowds, too, helping you have the best possible experience exploring.

Monteverde is a Mecca for nature lovers, and this full day trip won’t disappoint. On the way there, stop at the largest fruit stand in the country and sample a variety of tropical fruits. Once at the destination, ride the Sky Tram over the cloud forest canopy, then proceed on a guided hike along trails and hanging bridges suspended among the treetops.

Discover many beautiful attractions of Costa Rica on this Combo Tour from San Jose. Fly over the Rainforest Canopy on a zip lining course and rappel down 50 meters (150 feet). Visit 2 beautiful waterfalls in the Rainforest; admire wildlife of Costa Rica at the exotic birds’ viewing point and the Iguanas Center. Learn about coffee of Costa Rica and taste the delicious local cuisine. Participate of a native tribe presentation. Relax in thermal mineral hot springs pools at the base of Arenal Volcano. Lunch and dinner are included.

See more of the Arenal Volcano region with the convenience of a full-day tour from San Jose. Take a scenic route to Arenal with views of farms, rain forest, and small towns, and stop at a coffee plantation where you can sample coffee and traditional snacks. Stop at a waterfall, look for wildlife, then have the afternoon to soak in hot springs set in a lush garden near the Arenal Volcano.

Visiting Monteverde from San Jose in just one day can be challenging on your own, but this guided tour streamlines transportation to make the trip a cinch. Arrive at Monteverde in the morning and head straight to a canopy tour: hike on hanging bridges and learn about the rich cloud forest environment before heading back to San Jose.

As one of the most popular parks in Costa Rica, Manuel Antonio National Park is a must for visitors. This guided tour from San Jose makes visiting on a time crunch a cinch—your guide takes the guesswork out of deciding which trails are worth the effort, plus helps you spot wildlife along the way. This tour is specifically timed to avoid the crowds, too, helping you have the best possible experience exploring.

In just one day, it’s possible to visit top Costa Rica attractions like Arenal Volcano, La Paz Waterfall, and Arenal Hot Springs when you book this guided tour from San Jose. All-inclusive private transport smooths over otherwise tricky transportation logistics, and your guide keeps you well entertained and informed as you explore. This tour includes all entrance fees plus two meals, adding up to a great value.

Costa Rica is one of the Central American countries with the most volcanoes, among them is the highest in the country, at 3234 meters above sea level, the Irazú Volcano, only an hour and a half from San Jose, you can visit with us this beautiful and great volcano, where we tour the Irazú Volcano National Park. During our tour, we started the climb to the crater of the volcano for about an hour and a half, with a trip full of beautiful landscapes where you can see the city of Cartago and San José complemented by the beautiful agricultural farms of the area. To take the lunch in a typical restaurant in the area, which is going to be curious for its amounts of memories that flood the walls of the thousands of visitors who have eaten in this place, and your visit here will not be theexception for you to leave your memory of the visit.

We invite you to enjoy one of the most beautiful whale sightings of our Pacific coast. We start our tour very early, between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. We carry out the respective Pick Ups in the hotels in our luxury transports. We take route 27 towards the Pacific coast of our country, where we will travel about an hour to make our first travel stop in the city of Orotina to have breakfast buffet style. we will continue along route number 34, passing through the cities of Jaco Beach, Parrita and Quepos, crossing the entire coast of our country for two more hours, we will arrive at our destination, Dominicalito Beach, Uvita.

Costa Rica has many unique places, one of them is the majestic Rio Celeste located in the canton of Guatuso in the province of Alajuela, inside the Tenorio Volcano National Park. °The departure will be around 5:00 a.m. from different points established . ° With the whole group, we will go to the breakfast which will be approximately an hour and thirty minutes after leaving the Central Valley. ° Around 9:30 a.m. it is estimated that we are arriving at the Tenorio Volcano National Park where the respective registration will be made and we will prepare to start the guided tour. ° At 1:00 p.m. we would be finishing the tour, and we will get ready to go and have lunch. °The estimated time of return will be at 2:30 p.m., taking the road back to San Jose. Around 4:00 p.m., a strategic stop will be made before continuing the trip and closing our adventure to the Celeste River. We will be arriving at our places of departure around 6:30 p.m.