GUIDED HIKE IN RESERVA SANTA ELENA

Price for adults : USD $36

Price for kids from 13 to 17 with student ID: USD $31

Price for kids from 8 to 12 years: USD $26

Kids under 7 years are free.

***$12 per person for the pick up and drop off***

Cloud Forest Reserve Santa Elena has trained and experienced local guides on the Cloud Forest, thus achieving that in your visit you can appreciate in greater detail the characteristics and interactions of the Cloud Forest, in addition to the different attractions of La Reserva and its vast biodiversity Guided Natural History Walks are conducted in English or Spanish for a period of 2.5 hours and in a maximum group of 8 people, including a hot drink (Coffee or tea), in addition to the introductory talk.

What to bring

  • LONG HIKING PANTS
  • HIKING SHOES
  • COMFORTABLE SHIRT
  • RAIN JACKET
  • WATERPROOF BACKPACK OR A RAIN COVER
  • YOU DON’T NEED MOSQUITO REPELLENT SINCE THERE ARE NOT REALLY ANY MOSQUITOES THAT HIGH IN ELEVATION.

The tour includes:

  • BILINGUAL GUIDE (ENGLISH / SPANISH)
  • ENTRANCE FEE TO THE NATIONAL PARK
Reservation

SELF GUIDED HIKE IN RESERVA SANTA ELENA

Price for adults : USD $19

Price for kids from 13 to 17 with student ID: USD $13

Price for kids from 8 to 12 years: USD $10

Kids under 7 years are free.

***$12 per person for the pick up and drop off***

If you like to enjoy a walk on your own in the Cloud Forest, exploring and discovering the corners of our Reserve, we offer a network of 5 trails enabled for your personal experience. From a short walk on a path adapted to accessibility and law 7600, for children, seniors and for people with different abilities (Young World Trail), to a completely natural trail for those who like adventure and steep routes (Caño Trail Black). You can also count on views from the observation tower and viewpoints from 1,700 meters above sea level on the Youth Challenge Trail and beautiful views of the Cloud Forest on the Enchanted Path and Lower Trail.

What to bring

  • LONG HIKING PANTS
  • HIKING SHOES
  • COMFORTABLE SHIRT
  • RAIN JACKET
  • WATERPROOF BACKPACK OR A RAIN COVER
  • YOU DON’T NEED MOSQUITO REPELLENT SINCE THERE ARE NOT REALLY ANY MOSQUITOES THAT HIGH IN ELEVATION.

The tour includes:

  • ENTRANCE FEE TO THE NATIONAL PARK
Reservation

PRIVATE NATURAL HISTORY HIKE IN SANTA ELENA

Price: USD $150 (1 to 3 persons)

Extra Person: $36

Under 7 year old: free

***$12 per person for the pick up and drop off***

Special Package if you like to start your walk in the Cloud Forest at a specific time independent of the regular schedules or if you prefer to enjoy La Reserva accompanied only by one of our guides and members of your family or friends in a more private way and in a smaller group This hike goes on for up to 3 hours, including a hot drink or natural drink upon arrival, with an introductory talk about La Reserva. You can also make private tours for people with different interests, for example a tour focused on birds, plants, monitoring through trap cameras and others. Providing the possibility of acquiring more knowledge on specific topics.

What to bring

  • LONG HIKING PANTS
  • HIKING SHOES
  • COMFORTABLE SHIRT
  • RAIN JACKET
  • WATERPROOF BACKPACK OR A RAIN COVER
  • YOU DON’T NEED MOSQUITO REPELLENT SINCE THERE ARE NOT REALLY ANY MOSQUITOES THAT HIGH IN ELEVATION.

The tour includes:

  • BILINGUAL GUIDE (ENGLISH / SPANISH)
  • ENTRANCE FEE TO THE NATIONAL PARK
Reservation

ZIPLINE TOUR

Price per person : USD $80

Our tour is the only zip-line tour built entirely inside the cloud forest. In this tour, visitors cross through the unique cloud forest canopy suspended over the forest while attached to high weight-capacity cables and using the specialized climbing gear. This provides wonderful experience and sensations only comparable to flying through the forest. This tour not only combines the thrill of one of Costa Rica’s most safe and popular adventures, but also provides a unique vantage point of the cloud forest which in the past was reserved only to certain scientists brave enough to climb up to the forest canopy.

What to bring

  • LONG PANTS
  • HIKING BOOTS
  • RAIN GEAR (IF WEATHER REQUIRES)
  • INSECT REPELLENT

The tour includes:

  • TRANSPORTATION
  • BILINGUAL GUIDE (ENGLISH / SPANISH)
  • EQUIPMENT
Reservation

ZIPLINE TOUR AND HANGING BRIDGES

Price per person: USD $123

Selvatura Park’s treetop walkways provide the best way to safely admire the cloud forest canopy at your own pace.Walking though our bridges, our visitors have the opportunity appreciate a wide variety of flora and fauna of Monteverde and observe the endemic biodiversity of the cloud forest canopy which is not found anywhere else in the world. The treetop walkways provide the best vantage point to observe the beauty of the cloud forest in all its levels. Our tour is the only zip-line tour built entirely inside the cloud forest. In this tour, visitors cross through the unique cloud forest canopy suspended over the forest while attached to high weight-capacity cables and using the specialized climbing gear. This provides wonderful experience and sensations only comparable to flying through the forest.

This tour not only combines the thrill of one of Costa Rica’s most safe and popular adventures, but also provides a unique vantage point of the cloud forest which in the past was reserved only to certain scientists brave enough to climb up to the forest canopy.

What to bring

  • LONG PANTS
  • HIKING BOOTS
  • RAIN GEAR (IF WEATHER REQUIRES)
  • INSECT REPELLENT
  • CAMERA

The tour includes:

  • TRANSPORTATION
  • BILINGUAL GUIDE (ENGLISH / SPANISH)
  • EQUIPMENT
Reservation

ZIPLINE TOUR + HANGING BRIDGES + BUTTERFLY GARDEN

Price per person : USD $127


Selvatura Park’s treetop walkways provide the best way to safely admire the cloud forest canopy at your own pace.Walking though our bridges, our visitors have the opportunity appreciate a wide variety of flora and fauna of Monteverde and observe the endemic biodiversity of the cloud forest canopy which is not found anywhere else in the world. The treetop walkways provide the best vantage point to observe the beauty of the cloud forest in all its levels.

Our tour is the only zip-line tour built entirely inside the cloud forest. In this tour, visitors cross through the unique cloud forest canopy suspended over the forest while attached to high weight-capacity cables and using the specialized climbing gear. This provides wonderful experience and sensations only comparable to flying through the forest. This tour not only combines the thrill of one of Costa Rica’s most safe and popular adventures, but also provides a unique vantage point of the cloud forest which in the past was reserved only to certain scientists brave enough to climb up to the forest canopy.

Selvatura Park offers one of the largest butterfly gardens in the Americas, with an area of 300 feet long by 90 feet wide and 50 feet tall, a great dome structure covered by a special structure that helps control the temperature inside the garden, which enables our garden to host more than 30 different species of butterflies from different altitudes and climates found throughout Costa Rica.

What to bring

  • LONG PANTS
  • HIKING BOOTS
  • RAIN GEAR (IF WEATHER REQUIRES)
  • INSECT REPELLENT

The tour includes:

  • TRANSPORTATION
  • BILINGUAL GUIDE (ENGLISH / SPANISH)
  • ENTRANCE FEE TO THE NATIONAL PARK
Reservation

TIGRE WATERFALL HALF DAY HIKE

Price for adults : USD $80

Price for kids under 11 years: USD $12

***$10 per person for the pick up and drop off***

Visit the unique rain shadow forest at Bajo del Tigre – in the heart of Monteverde! Although located just a mile from the cloud forest, a drier climate means that many of the plant and animal species in Bajo del Tigre are different. Only about 40km2 of this rare “rain shadow forest” are protected in all of Costa Rica!

In the day, enjoy a guided walk with an experienced nature guide (previous reservations required). Or, enjoy the trails at your own pace with our self-guided hike.

What to bring

  • COMFORTABLE CLOTHING TO GET WET
  • HAT AND SUNSCREEN
  • WATER SHOES
  • TREKKING SHOES OR TREKKING SANDALS
  • DRY CLOTHES FOR AFTER THE TRIP
  • BINOCULARS
  • SWIMSUIT AND TOWEL
  • CAMERA

The tour includes:

  • TRANSPORTATION
  • BILINGUAL GUIDE (ENGLISH / SPANISH)
  • EQUIPMENT
  • ENTRANCES
  • LUNCH
Reservation

NOCTURNAL GUIDED HIKED IN THE RESERVA BOSQUE ETERNO DE LOS NIÑOS

Price for adults: USD $30

Price for kids under 11 years: USD $26

***$10 per person for the pick up and drop off***

The views and sounds of the tropical forest at night make this hike an unforgettable experience. Daily from 5:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Transportation from local hotels is offered.

Reservar Bosque Eterno de los niños its just a mile from the cloud forest Monteverde, and it’s a completely different experience. The rare type of forest at Bajo del Tigre represents one of the most threatened ecosystems in Costa Rica.

We don’t feed or manipulate wildlife – what you see is the real deal!

Sunset view over the Gulf of Nicoya.

Visitors’ Center, “Casa de Niños” interpretive center, and Gift Shop.

100% of the proceeds from your visit support the conservation and protection of the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest private reserve in Costa Rica.

What to bring

  • HIKING BOOTS
  • PONCHO OR RAINCOAT
  • CLOTHES FOR HIKING INTO AND AROUND THE STATION: LIGHTWEIGHT LONG PANTS, LAYERS ON TOP, AND EXTRA SOCKS
  • WARM SHIRT OR SWEATER FOR CHILLY EVENINGS
  • REPELLENT
  • WATER BOTTLE
  • WALKING STICKS (OPTIONAL)
  • BINOCULARS AND CAMERA (OPTIONAL)
  • PACK INSIDE PLASTIC BAGS TO PROTECT BELONGINGS FROM RAIN

The tour includes:

  • BILINGUAL GUIDE (ENGLISH / SPANISH)
  • ENTRANCE FEE TO THE NATIONAL PARK
Reservation

COFFEE TOUR + CANE TOUR + CHOCOLATE TOUR

Price per person USD $47

The main characteristic of Don Juan Tours Monteverde, has to be its plantation which is located in one of the best 8 coffee producing zones in Costa Rica. Possessing volcanic soils, necessary altitude and perfect weather to offer an exquisite cup of gourmet coffee.

Later on, during the tour we’ll be showing other aspects of Costa Rican culture, as well as some of our traditions. During this part of the tour, we will get to see all the processes carried by coffee, from the seed to the delicious final product, the cup of coffee.

The second part of this tour is the famous chocolate tour, the which is a differential feature, and the perfect complement for coffee, it’s a contributor to rescuing the traditions and culture of our country.

You will have an experience between aromas and history, where you will participate in the chocolate process and be able to enjoy, share and taste the fruit of the cocoa, until arriving to its magnificent transformation, becoming a delicious drink; equally on this tour we will show you the whole process of transition from seed to pure and ground cocoa.

The third part of the tour will be about sugar cane, where you’ll learn about its history, plantations, different types of harvest, processing, obtainment of various products and you’ll be able to live the experience of handcrafting sugar cane juice.

What to bring

  • COMFORTABLE CLOTHES
  • RAIN JACKET OR UMBRELLA
  • SUNSCREEN
  • REPELLENT
  • WATER

The tour includes:

  • TRANSPORTATION
  • BILINGUAL GUIDE (ENGLISH / SPANISH)
  • ENTRANCE FEE TO THE NATIONAL PARK
Reservation