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Costa Rica trips for school vacations

With summer vacation coming up at schools and colleges across the U.S., Costa Rica trips make an ideal vacation for adventure travel. Forget about laying on the beach doing nothing! In Costa Rica, you can mountain bike volcanoes, whitewater raft past primary rainforest, hike national parks, harness up to a zip line in the jungle, surf or snorkel in warm tropical waters or soak in natural hot springs near an active volcano.  So show your kids how to much fun an active adventure vacation can be.

Make your school break a Costa Rica adventure vacation with some learning thrown in.

The tropical paradise of Costa Rica boasts several different ecosystems, from the Monteverde cloud forest, to tropical rainforests to the beaches on both the east and west coasts of the country. Your guides will teach you all about the rainforest, flora, fauna, culture and history of this diverse country.  They are will bring the country alive for you and thrill your imagination beyond your expectations.

With Costa Rica Rios, you can choose your own adventure with our packages designed for the active traveler. The all-inclusive Week of Adventures adventure tour features kayaking, whitewater rafting and snorkeling. Zooming along a zip line and mountain biking volcanoes are also included. Don’t worry, beach time is part of the package, as well!

Custom or family vacation packages

If none of the pre-packaged tours fit the bill, Costa Rica Rios can also design custom tours for families, couples and groups of friends. Honeymoon packages are also available for couples who want to celebrate the lifelong adventure of marriage with an adventure honeymoon.

Contact us today to start planning your adventure vacation in Costa Rica.

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Try Something New with Costa Rica Guided Tours

Perhaps it feels like you’ve been taking the same kind of vacation all your life. Your family has always vacationed at that same cabin by the lake. As a kid, it was great to sit and listen to grandpa’s fish stories, while you yourself caught nothing, but now you really would be happy not to ever pick up a fishing pole again. Sure, the canoe was fun when you were 6 years old, but over the years it’s lost its charm, and now you just aren’t interested in the same old experience. Now, watching your children fish and canoe, you realize that you want them to have more variety in their vacation experiences. You’re not sure where to begin, but you know that you are ready to try something new for your next vacation.

We suggest that you start with us. Since you’re moving outside your comfort zone, we invite you and your family to join one of our Costa Rica guided tours.

Thoroughly and professionally planned with your particular interests in mind, we can create a week that safely and enjoyably expands your family’s horizons. Instead of fishing in the lake, we’ll take your family snorkeling, where you will see tropical fish in shapes and colors you never could have imagined. Instead of lazily paddling your canoe around a lake, we’ll go sea kayaking or whitewater rafting, giving you a chance to improve upon those basic skills in thrilling new surroundings. Instead of watching the deer and raccoons around your family’s cabin, we’ll take you zip lining across the forest canopy, where you will be surrounded by an amazing assortment of wildlife, with brightly-colored birds, raucous monkeys, and sloths as motionless as you used to be on that old cabin’s dock. Even our bicycles will take you to new places, filled with tropical sights, sounds and smells that you never could have imagined.

So this year, take a break from the family cabin and explore the tropics with Costa Rica Rios. Contact us and we promise you an adventure that will set a new standard for your family’s vacations!

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Plan a Costa Rica Adventure Vacation of a Lifetime

Planning a vacation is exciting. You know that you want to enjoy something unique, fun and maybe even a little adventurous but what to choose? A Costa Rica adventure vacation is the perfect setting for memories that will last a lifetime.

Imagine kayaking, adventurous white water rafting, snorkeling, surfing, mountain biking and even gliding over the jungle on a zip line. In our all-inclusive tour, you get to experience all of that and more.

Your Costa Rica guided tour includes spending some nights in the rainforest jungle lodge, biking across live volcanoes and some of the most beautiful beaches in the world where the jungle and wildlife meet up with crystal clear water that is teeming with rare sea life.

It doesn’t matter if you want to meet others that share your love of adventure or you are traveling with your family and want to make memories that you can share for the rest of your life, Costa Rica is the perfect place to enjoy adventure.

You don’t have to worry about what to do or about being safe while enjoying your vacation. Our guides are trained professionals that have your safety and fun in mind. Since everything is all-inclusive, you won’t have to figure out where to dine for the evening or what hotel to stay in. The accommodations offer a volcanic view and luxurious surroundings that are picture perfect.

The best thing about your adventure is the experiences like no other. Where else can you have a morning coffee with a volcanic view and then kayak down a river or zipline through the jungle all in the same day ?

If you’re ready to experience the vacation of a lifetime where every photo will tell a unique experience then contact us so we can help you plan your next adventure.

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Let Your Children Design Your Costa Rica Family Adventure!

It’s time to plan your next vacation…but your children roll their eyes when you start talking about it. Perhaps they are teenagers, whose main goal in life seems to be staying “cool” about everything, or perhaps they are younger and their favorite summer phrase is “are we there yet?”

Here’s a chance to get your children involved:  have them plan your very own Costa Rica Adventure! We have lots of options for them to choose from, and you can be confident that our professional guides and courteous staff will make your custom vacation into an unforgettable experience for everyone in the family. If your daughter is into animals, we’ll go in search of sea turtles, snorkel among the fish and take a canopy tour to where the exotic birds hang out. If your son is just learning about other cultures, we’ll hike into a remote village where you can meet the locals and discover how they live. If your teen believes that he or she has “seen it all,” we will plan a day full of sights, sounds and experiences that can only be found in Costa Rica. If the most important thing is to keep everyone active, we have sea kayaks, mountain bikes, whitewater rafts, ziplines, surfboards…everything you could want to have a fun-filled and lively day together.

Costa Rica Rios will create your custom adventure with the entire family in mind. As a parent, you will appreciate our high quality adventure equipment and excellent safety record, and value our commitment to sustainability and the environment. Your entire family will enjoy our comfortable and upscale lodgings and outstanding food. Our expert local guides will draw you into the heartbeat of our life here and make your Costa Rica Adventure a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Contact us or click now on our Custom and Family Tours page and get started!

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Feliz Navidad!

With the holiday season upon us our thoughts are consumed by Christmas here in Costa Rica! Being a very catholic country, Christmas is a huge deal and the shops have had Christmas stuff for sale since September. As for most major events in the annual calendar it’s the community that makes them a big success. On Sunday night there was the Christmas Light Parade and the whole community turned out to watch. This also included the people from all the small towns we pass through on our Week of Adventures guided vacations. The lights were bright and the drums loud and the parade lasted several hours. All types of businesses and schools participated in floats and displays, big and small. The smallest was a large white dog dressed in Santa garb and the biggest were on Big Mac style trucks. Rawlings baseball factory had made a giant baseball glove and ball and a truck-sized sewing machine. The people on the float threw balls into the 10’s of 1000’s of people lining the streets.To finish the night there was music and fireworks. The couple here on their Costa Rica adventure honeymoon got to witness this amazing display of local culture first hand. Everyone went home with a Christmas glow and hope for good things in the New Year.

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Working a Costa Rica Adventure

My own Costa Rica adventure began almost a year ago when I came here for a Week of Rivers guided adventure vacation with Costa Rica Rios. It was such an amazing experience, kayaking in warm clear water, seeing the brilliant blue morphos flashing through the trees around us, waking up to the exotic chorus of birds, insects and monkeys at the jungle camp… by the end of the week I didn’t want to leave!  So when I heard they were looking for a new office intern here in Turrialba, starting just as I was finishing university, it seemed like the perfect opportunity and I jumped at the chance to come back.

costa rica guided adventure vacation tour trip package honeymoon My first couple of weeks here have been amazing! Everyone is so nice, it’s like I’ve been adopted into a big new family and they are all teaching me so much. I’m learning all about the language, the music, the food, the culture… and the guests are awesome too. It’s fascinating to hear the stories people bring, from so many different places, of such crazy adventures. But still the best thing for me is that when I’m not working, I can go kayaking. We had some extreme weather last week so I even got to check out some new rivers with high water – perfect!

costa rica guided adventure vacation tour trip package honeymoonToday the sun is out for the beginning of the holiday season; the schools will all be finished in a few short days, the special Olympics are being held in town next week, and soon after that will be the Christmas parades. It is also the peak season for travelers so things are starting to get pretty busy around here!  As well as our signature guided tours: Week of Rivers and Week of Adventures, we are also working on lots of custom adventure vacation tours, and a new range of Costa Rica adventure honeymoon packages. I can’t wait to meet all these new people and help create more perfect adventures.

Jess
The new intern from NZ

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Adventure Guide Daniel Rodriguez

Many of our Costa Rica guided tours throughout the season are led by our head guide Daniel Rodriguez (Danny).

Danny comes from a long line of family members who have worked in the tourism industry in Costa Rica for many years. Danny’s mother worked in tourism when he was growing up, so the outdoors and conservation have always been very important to him. Originally from San Jose, Danny started rafting at the age of 12 learning to paddle on the Reventazon, Pacuare and Corobici rivers. By the time he was in his early 20’s Danny had already represented Costa Rica at the World Rafting Championships in Ecuador.

Equally at home in a kayak Danny is an all round expert whitewater guide.

Danny’s perfect English is a product of having moved to and lived in the United States for 5 years. As a trip leader on our Week of Adventures or Week of Rivers, Danny brings lots of fun and laughs to our Costa Rica trips as well as an in depth knowledge of everything Costa Rican. He has an incredible amount of knowledge on the flora and fauna and helps bring Costa Rica alive for our international guests.

When he is not working Danny enjoys all adrenaline/outdoor activities, especially surfing, skateboarding, kayaking and rappelling.

 

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Kayak Costa Rica

With some of the best whitewater anywhere on the planet why not join one of our Week of Rivers trips?

Our trips are geared towards all types of paddlers. We can offer class II/III and III/IV trips and this season we are offering our first class IV/IV+ weeks.

With a mixture of local and international guides we have the most experienced team in Costa Rica with a high ratio of guides to clients. With such talent and knowledge on our staff we set the standard when it comes to paddling Costa Rica.

Costa Rica Rios boasts the largest selection of whitewater canoes and kayaks in Central America and we are always updating our fleet. Check out our equipment page for a full list.

All the dates for the upcoming season are now posted on the Week of Rivers page with some of the dates starting to get close to full already.

So if you are looking for a week in paradise, paddling some great whitewater, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to paddling with you in the tropics!

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Super Guide Davis!

For all of you out there lucky enough to have been on one of our trips in the last 4 years you will have met one of our top guides Deivis Montenegro. We thought it would be nice to give you a quick update on Deivis as he is doing some great things when he is not guiding one of our Week of Adventures or Week of Rivers.

Deivis has represented Costa Rica in the last two world rafting championships. In 2009 he traveled with the national team to Slovakia and then at the end of 2011 the world championships were on home water on our very own Pacuare River. Deivis was an integral member of the team, being chosen to paddle in every discipline throughout the 4 day event. Costa Rica proudly finished 9th out of more than 30 international teams.

Deivis has now turned his attention to triathlons and is training 6 days a week. It is not unusual for him to have completed a 15km run before work! We have also yet to see any of our guests beat him on the uphill sections on our mountain biking day!

We love having such a fantastic athlete on our team at Costa Rica Rios. Deivis is quick to offer tips on everything from biking to paddling and he has been a guest favorite for many years with his easy going nature and love of Costa Rica. Everyone loves Deivis!

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