Experience for an extended weekend a relaxing gateway to Costa Rica where you will incorporate sports activities, adventure and fun.

During your stay in Costa Rica, you will visit a butterfly farm, a coffee plantation with degustation and you will experience the famous Canopy tour.

• 4 Nights in San Jose at the Presidente Hotel or similar

• Accommodations
• Hotel Taxes and Service Charges
• Round-trip Transfers - Airport/Hotel/Resort
• Canopy tour
• Visit of the butterfly farm
• Coffee Tour

• Any tour not mentioned in the program (we offer optional tours; please ask our travel agent for details)
• Meals, beverages not mentioned as part of the program and personal expenses
• International airfare (please ask our agents for our special fare)

Day 1
Arriving in San Jose, capital of Costa Rica, you will be transferred in your hotel - lodging.
 

Day 2
The following day in the morning, you will be getting ready for an amazing experience of the canopy tour:

A thrilling journey over the tree tops The exhilarating adventure of climbing above the canopy of the tropical forest and slide down from one platform to another, while enjoying close contact with nature. Get a really close up look at nature, and at the same time have a thrill of a lifetime. This is the tour that lets you roam around the treetops, giving you a Birds Eye View of the tropical forest. Leap from platform to platform on the special system of steel cables with the use of professional climbing gear. Includes: Snack, gear, transportation and naturalist guide. Bring: comfortable shoes, light jacket and long pant. Departs from San Jose 8:00 am.
Return at the hotel in the afternoon, free time to relax and explore the city. Lodging.

Day 3
What a perfect day to visit a butterfly farm: A Natural Habitat With Hundreds of Butterflies -Tropical Gardens.
Learn all about the fascinating butterfly as you explore its natural habitat, filled with hundreds of butterflies. The tour begins with a 25-minute film that gives and introduction as to what will be seen. Visitors will proceed to the packing plant, where on shipping days, you will lean about the sorting, packing process required for the exportation of the pupae. Tour proceeds to The Butterfly Garden, a tropical garden where perhaps over a thousand butterflies live their lives, feeding, mating and laying eggs. Guides may identify the most beautiful butterflies of Costa Rica, point out the females ovipositing their eggs on host plants and feeding on flowers. Visitors may touch the legs of butterflies and discover how they hold on to plants or try to find the lottery number on their wings. Topics such as the role of butterflies in nature, their defense mechanisms and those of their host plants are but a sampling of the many themes discussed. The entire cycle of the metamorphosis is shown. The tour culminates at the gift shop, where guests are afforded more opportunity for questions and answers. Those people that wish to indulge in souvenirs from Costa Rica may do so. Includes: Entrance fees, transportation and guide. Bring: comfortable shoes. Departs from San Jose 7:00 am - 14:00.
Return at the hotel - free afternoon - Lodging at the same hotel.

Day 4
Before leaving Costa Rica, you will have the opportunity to see and taste the Costa Rican coffee.
Imagine following the journey of a coffee bean from the plantation - to the processing plant to a cup of gourmet coffee. When you take the Coffee Tour at Café Britt you will do exactly that! Their professional acting troupe, dressed in traditional garb, will escort you through multi-media, interactive tour through the history of coffee. On their finca, as the plantation is called in Spanish, your day starts on six-acres of coffee fields, tropical gardens and coffee processing facilities. Well teach you all about coffee cultivation - and not just by giving you the facts - feel free to pick a few ripe cherries to taste their sweetness or take a few of the dried beans home to grow a plant of your own! From the fields, well take you into our roasting and packaging facilities where you will soak in the aroma of roasting coffee and learn all about this magical process that turns a red coffee cherry into a delicious cup of java. Then, in our theater, sit back and watch a multi-media play and presentation of coffees place in world history. Learn about how deeply coffee culture is woven into the history and people of Costa Rica - and be prepared to have a few good laughs while youre at it. Although incredibly knowledgeable, our troupe has a rather short serious threshold! Includes: Entrance fees, transportation and guide. Bring: light clothes, comfortable shoes and hat. Departs from San Jose 7:30 am - 14:00.

Back at your hotel for the last night. Lodging.

Day 5
The following day, you will be transferred to the airport to take your flight back home.