Description
A family trip is one of the best experiences as it keeps the whole family together and fills it with thousands of moments to remember. You have chosen to travel to La Fortuna, San Carlos, a beautiful place with many options, from adventure, hiking, and peasant tours, among others. With our Family Combo, you have the best option to make activities suitable for all ages in a single day and for all tastes.
Our guide will pick you up at your hotel, we will make a short trip to reach the Territory of Sloths, this beautiful privileged land is approximately 5 minutes from the town of La Fortuna. There We can observe one of the most beloved animals of our country, the popular sloth, which captivates us always with its tenderness and peculiar behavior. We travel approximately 1,500 meters of footpath, while our guide gives us a great amount of information and explains the importance of protecting this species. Our specialized guides are experts in finding the sloths, so we can guarantee their observation. We must remember that the sloths are lonely animals and that most of their time is spent sleeping and resting on the treetops.
We will end this part of the tour with some delicious seasonal fruits as a snack to continue our trip to a town called Agua Azul de La Fortuna, where in approximately 15 minutes we will be arriving at an agroecological farm, owned by a local peasant family that always receive us with their open arms.
There we will start the tour with a delicious natural juice as a welcome drink made based on fresh fruits from the area our guide will detail the main objectives of this family project, among which are the promotion of the sustainable use of natural resources and the preservation of Costa Rican customs. After this warm welcome, we will carry out the manual milking of cows where any person can participate in this unforgettable pleasant experience. The youngest can participate in the milking and also feed small calves, and chickens, and observe rabbits, geese, and quail, among other animal species that exist in a small farm.
Then we will participate in the process of extraction of sugar cane juice, being able to taste the fresh juice completely pure and also in combination with different ingredients such as liquor, mint, and some other organic products obtained in the same farm. Then, we will go on to make a tasting of artisan liquor and other traditional products obtained through the fermentation process while we observe the distillation process of artisanal liquor in the traditional Costa Rican way.
We will visit a small archaeological ranch where we can observe different indigenous pieces found in the same lands as the farm and at the same time use them in the creation of artisanal cacao with the chance to taste from the fruit to the chocolate itself.
Finally, we can appreciate the garden with a variety of beautiful orchids that adorn the patio of the house, as well as "the pharmacy", an orchard with interesting medicinal plants, which are still used by this family in the treatment of diseases, just as grandmothers did in the past. At the end of the tour, we will enjoy a delicious typical Costa Rican lunch made with products made on the farm such as coffee, cheese, and tortillas, among others. Without a doubt an experience full of culture, tradition, and Costa Rican customs.