Costa Rica Volcano Tours

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Poas Volcano and Doka Coffee Combination Short Day Tour. From $115*/person

Add Sarchi & Grecia for only $20/person (when 4 or more on tour, a bit more extra when tour operates with less than 4 ).

7:30 am to 5:00 pm

SEE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING IN ONE SPECTACULAR DAY:
·  POAS VOLCANO CRATER and cloud forest.
·  DOKA COFFEE FARM TOUR.
· SCENIC DRIVES though quaint colorful towns and farm land.
· View Stops
·  LUNCH included, as are REFRESHMENTS ALL DAY.

From San José we’ll turn off the Pan-American Highway through the provincial capital city of Alajuela where we’ll stop to see 2 points of interest your knowledgeable guide will tell you about. Our drive to the Poás Volcano Cloud Forest National Park will take us up the slopes of the Central Volcanic Mountain Range by way of a scenic drive through beautiful landscape adorned with coffee, dairy, strawberry, flower and fern farms in addition to typical small towns with well kept homes.

POAS VOLCANO: At approximately 9:00 a.m. we’ll enter the cloud forest of the Poás Volcano National Park where we'll walk 500 scenic yards on a flat paved pathway to the crater, located at a cool 8,900 ft. above sea level. On the way your guide will show you the beautiful giant leaves of the “Poor Man’s Umbrella” plant, epiphytes (air plants) and other plant species unique to the lush tropical cloud forest ecosystem that lines the walk to the crater. From the crater’s rim you’ll have the unique experience of looking down 1,000 ft. into an active volcano crater that's nearly 1 mile in diameter and constantly emitting sulfur fumes and steam. The crater's colorful array of rock strata and aqua green colored acid lake together with the barren old lava floe rock formations all surrounded by tropical cloud forest gives your experienced professional guide plenty to tell you about.

VIEW & FRUIT STOPS: After leaving Poás around 10:30 a.m. we'll make brief stops with a fantastic high view of the central valley below, and later further down the mountain at a roadside fruit stand to sample delicious fresh strawberries, other local fruit and snacks safe to eat.

At the Doka Coffee Farm Tour you will have the opportunity to learn about how coffee is cultivated, harvested, processed and roasted while sampling top quality roasted coffee that you can purchase (ground or whole bean) straight from one of the oldest coffee farm in Latin America. This tour also has beautiful views of the rolling landscape of coffee plantations and of the Central Valley below.

Price from $115/person *All Prices are subject to change without notice and are based on the tour operating with 4 persons or more. Private Tours are available for 2 or 3 persons for a nominal premium with all the inherit advantages of a private tour.

Adding Zarcero for $20/person extra

The route from the Doka Coffee Tour takes us into the town of Grecia (Greece) to visit its unique double steeple metal church imported from Belgium in 1894 that your knowledgeable guide will tell more about. And where we'll have the opportunity to have lunch. You’ll then travel another 15 minutes to the town of Sarchi to visit its 1903 oxcart factory and many souvenir shops.

Grecia's Steel Church

Sarchí Oxcarts

Adding Zarcero's Topiary Garden Park for $20/person extra.

Zarcero's Topiary Garden Park

Price with Zarcero added: From $130/person*

*All Prices are subject to change without notice and are based on the tour operating with 4 persons or more. Private Tours are available for 2 or 3 persons for a nominal premium with all the inherit advantages of a private tour.

Best to email us at least 24 hrs or a couple days before requesting a tour.
But if you prefer or with short notice call us in Costa Rica via our
U.S. Telephone #s: 1-352-505-4001
or 1-352-505-2636
Free of International Charges from the U.S. and Canada!
And for calls from other countries, only charges to the U.S. apply.
We'll do our best to arrange same day tours with calls in the early morning,
but best to call (and also email) us at least the day before, if not much sooner, to increase your chances of us being able to help you.

If you are in Costa Rica or need a tour with short notice it's
best to call (and also email) us, hopefully at least the day before or sooner to increase your chances of us being able to help you, at
our Local C.R. Telephone #s :
2215-2162 or 2215-2163.
IF you must dial our Local C.R. Tel. #s from outside C.R. first dial your
International Access Code (011 in U.S. & Canada), then C.R.'s Country Code 506, then our number.
There are no area codes in Costa Rica.
Example dial from U.S. or Canada to C.R. dial: 011 (506) 2215-2162.
Of course from U.S. or Canada try our US Tel. #s above first.
We'll do our best to arrange same day tours with calls in the early morning,
but best to call (and also email) at least the night before, if not much sooner.

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