Category: Tours

Costa Rica has become increasingly popular as a vacation destination. Also on the rise in the activities list is canopy tours. With many choices available to choose from it’s a thrill for both young and old. If you go home without trying your hand at zip lining, you will surely regret it.

With a variety of tour companies to choose from, you need to do your research to make sure you book your canopy tour that will provide you with the adventure you are in search of. If it is adventure you’re looking for, this is where you will find it. Once is definitely not enough!

Depending on what your extreme adventure idea is, you can bet that you will find it on a canopy tour. With a range of activities outlined along the way, you get to choose what works best for your perfect adrenaline rush! Choose your tour operator according to your “extreme”, or not, desire.

Canopy tours consist of a series of platforms and cables placed strategically throughout the forest. As you travel from platform to platform, you will be connected to the cable with a harness and pulley. Some tour companies offer safety connections while you are standing on the platform waiting to move to through to the next location.

You job on this amazing adventure is to just relax and enjoy the ride. The hardest part about this experience will be deciding which canopy company to choose from. Age and weight restrictions do vary slightly from company to company so it’s best to check prior to booking.

Learning to speak Spanish is difficult at best. A wonderful way to learn a new language is through a Student Immersion program. Spanish Immersion programs in Costa Rica are not only culturally enlightening, they creates an environment where students are interacting with the locals, learning about the culture, and enjoying an amazing experience to travel within another country and speaking the language they are studying.

There are many activities for your students to do while visiting Costa Rica for their Spanish immersion course. There are volunteer projects they can work on with the locals. With many biologist already based here for their studies, they are always looking for student volunteers to help with their projects.

While working in the immersion program here in Costa Rica, you will leave with a host family. This creates an environment where you experience not only the culture, but you are getting to practice your Spanish daily. What better way to learn, eating, drinking and speaking Spanish? These families are incredibly hospitable, warm and caring which is typical of the Costa Rican culture.

While visiting in Costa Rica, your students will find many activities that will be on the “must do” list. From the Monteverde Reserve, to the beautiful beaches each place has its own attractions. And don’t forget the wildlife, everywhere you look, everyplace you visit, it’s all around you and the best thing is they are living in their natural habitat.

I recently made good on a promise I had been making to my family for sometime now. We had seen a program on television talking about Costa Rica and all it has to offer and I promised then and there that we would all get to Costa Rica at some point. We are all about nature and wildlife and adventure so since that time, the requests have been relentless. The only obstacle, as is often the case, is time and money.

Costa Rica, as the program described, is a small Central American country encompassing no more than 31,682 square miles. It is known for being peaceful and even gained a Nobel Peace prize for its efforts in brokering a peace accord in neighboring Central American countries where conflict existed. Over 12% of its land is protected and it is considered to have one of the most bio-diverse ecosystems on the planet.

Monteverde was to be our first destination on our itinerary. Green Mountain as it were, was settled by a group of Quakers who arrived to the area around 1951. They were attracted to Costa Rica after the abolition of its army and choose the area that would become Monteverde because it seemed conducive to the diary farming that was their trade. After scientists realized the significance of the delicate micro-system of its surrounding cloud forests, they began to protect the nearby forests.