Sloth Watching Trail: Hiking Through Rainforest with Naturalistic Guide to Discover Wildlife

Embark on a thrilling sloth watching trail in the rainforest with a naturalistic guide. Discover wildlife, including sloths, birds, frogs, and insects, on this gentle hike through a 30-acre property.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Sloth Watching Trail - You don’t need to venture deep into the rain forest to see Costa Rica’s spectacular wildlife on this guided nature walk in a La Fortuna nature center. On this tour, a guide accompanies you on an easy, kid-friendly walk through the forest, pointing out wildlife like sloths, birds, and tree frogs along the way.
What's Included
  • Expert-led guided tours
Additional Information

Venture on an outdoor trek through the rainforest led by a naturalist guide, where we’ll seek sloths in their natural habitat. On average, we’re likely to spot four to six sloths in the vicinity. Our route spans about 2 miles, teeming with a rich array of biodiversity, so we’ll have opportunities to observe birds, frogs, insects, and other local wildlife. This excursion lasts roughly two hours and is a leisurely walk through a flat, 30-acre property. The paths are predominately shaded with a few uncovered areas, so we recommend bringing insect repellent.

  • Recomended to bring bug spray and rainjackets if rains, close shoes and water.
Location
Sloth Watching Trail La Fortuna, Arenal Volcano Private Trail
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Ivy
Aug 1, 2024
Sloth Walk - Amazing experience of a lifetime and our guide (Elius) was educational, informative, and excellent! Highly recommend! We saw so many different animals including sloths and had a very close encounter with a baby sloth! This is an excursion I will never forget! Book them today! I’d rate more than five stars if I could!
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Sarahtw1048ny
Jul 3, 2024
Don’t miss this fabulous sloth (and so much more) adventure! - The sloth walk we took with Brandon was so much fun! We saw so many amazing animals and creatures besides the very cool sloths, and sloth moms with their babies. We saw a viper, armadillo babies, basilisks, an agouti, a black and white owl and so many other astounding creatures. Brandon was incredibly knowledgeable and had a great sense of humour. We saw so much more than we would have ever seen ourselves and learned so much about so many different species, and it was ridiculously fun! Can’t wait to go again some day!
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Kaltenberg0799
Jun 8, 2024
Just do it, it’s worth it! - After we were unable to see sloths in person without a guide, we decided to take the tour. The price of 50 USD is quite high, but we are glad we did it. We would never have seen the animals. Many thanks to Alfonso for the explanations and the sighting. We also saw owls, but even here there was no chance without knowledge.
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Biancaboogz
May 4, 2024
Worth a visit! - I’m so happy we got to visit Sloth Watching Trail during our time in Costa Rica! Thanks to our awesome guide, Randall, on educating us about different types of sloths, frogs, birds, plants, etc. We definitely took in all the nature sounds, soothing and a peaceful environment. Highly recommend! Also, don’t forget the bug spray!
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Lollipop076
Mar 31, 2024
Great experience - Joseph was a great guide! Very knowledgeable, found us many sloths and birds. He is also great with kids! Especially my son who was very nervous about the frogs!
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208gille
Mar 23, 2024
Good value tour , well worth the visit - This is a very good tour ,we did the combo ticket saw many sloths and a great variety of birds and fauna.The coffee/ chocolate and sugar cane tours were very interesting and informative too.Our guide Emilio was excellent and very knowledgeable , first rate .
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Robertgt4198uv
Mar 12, 2024
Sloths and more - My wife and I really enjoyed this tour. We saw several sloths and our guide, Emilio pointed out all kinds of other wildlife from leaf cutter ants to toucans.
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Bill_f
Mar 7, 2024
Great Guides and very cute animals - The naturalists/guides are fantastic. We saw a number of sloths, one which was about 3 meters from us. We saw many beautiful birds as well. It’s a beautiful location and the walk through the forest was with the price of admission. Note: IMHO getting a guide is critical on any of the nature hikes in Costa Rica. They are amazing at finding and identifying an incredible array of animals. Some large. Some very small. Some fast. Some very SSSLOWWWW. Without the guides you’d miss 95% off what your there to see.
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M9999lmjasmineb
Feb 26, 2024
A nice place where sloths roam free! - There are many sloth watching tours around La Fortuna. We chose this one on a whim, and were quite happy with the result! Our guide, Isaac, was a nice, laidback guy with a fun attitude. You could tell he enjoyed himself and his enthusiasm got us going on this especially hot day. He was very good at finding animals too! We saw two and three finger sloths, as well as birds, owls and even bats! You wouldn't think to find a place with sloths in the heart of the city, but there they are, high up in the trees. Something that I apreciated because I had heard of places that relocate the sloths at eye level to please the tourists, and that is not what I was looking for. I prefer to watch them in their natural habitat from afar, knowing that I am not bothering them. Luckily, our guide had the perfect lense for that, and we could see the animals really well while taking pictures through the lense scope. There weren't that many sloths - it was a hot day and the afternoon sun was burning - but we got to see 6 of them, including a mother and her baby, and a male with his distinctive orange stripe actively climbing a tree! That's all I needed to feel content and happy. Overall, a great place to admire nature respectfully!
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Ryanmv9035kz
Feb 24, 2024
Sloth walk tour - We loved our time here, we showed up at 8:30 and were the only ones there and so they took our family on a private tour/walk. Our guide, Frandel was super knowledgeable and passionate about he type of flora/fauna that we were seeing. He was able to spot so many things along our walk that we would not have seen ourselves. Overall it was a great experience, thanks guys, and Frandel.
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