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Sloth Spotting Tour: Encounter with Wildlife in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica
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Embark on a thrilling Sloth Spotting Tour in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Discover the natural habitat of sloths, learn about their behavior, and enjoy a boat tour along the Tortuguero Canal.
Embark on a thrilling Sloth Spotting Tour in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Discover the natural habitat of sloths, learn about their behavior, and enjoy a boat tour along the Tortuguero Canal.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Cahuita National Park - Cahuita National Park is a terrestrial and marine national park in the Caribbean La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the southern Caribbean coast in Limón Province, connected to the town of Cahuita. Cahuita National Park is unique in Costa Rica for its close relationship with the community, an example of…
- Cahuita National Park - Cahuita National Park is a terrestrial and marine national park in the Caribbean La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the southern Caribbean coast in Limón Province, connected to the town of Cahuita. Cahuita National Park is unique in Costa Rica for its close relationship with the community, an example of shared management between the community and government for a sustainable development at community level. Participation of park guards and community life stands out through a shared governance management.
Know the best preserved coral reef in the Costa Rican Caribbean area and enjoy the scenery, culture and cuisine offered in the area.
White sand beaches, turquoise a sea and a diverse marine life are some of the attractions that await for you in Cahuita National Park in the province of Limon.
What's Included
- Explore Banana and Chocolate Plantations
- Guided Nature Walk in Cahuita National Park
- Tortuguero Canal Boat Tour with a Naturalist Guide
- Comfortable Air-Conditioned Minibus Transport
- Visit Local Souvenir Stores for Unique Keepsakes
- All Entrance Fees, Including Cahuita National Park, Covered
- Knowledgeable Professional Guide Throughout the Tour
- Explore Banana and Chocolate Plantations
- Guided Nature Walk in Cahuita National Park
- Tortuguero Canal Boat Tour with a Naturalist Guide
- Comfortable Air-Conditioned Minibus Transport
- Visit Local Souvenir Stores for Unique Keepsakes
- All Entrance Fees, Including Cahuita National Park, Covered
- Knowledgeable Professional Guide Throughout the Tour
Additional Information
Kick-start your unforgettable journey with a customized pick-up from Limon Pier near your ship. Our certified Tour Guide will then escort you through the enchanting landscape of Costa Rica in our comfortable, air-conditioned, latest model vehicle to your chosen activities. Along the way, your guide will highlight numerous points of interest until you…
Kick-start your unforgettable journey with a customized pick-up from Limon Pier near your ship. Our certified Tour Guide will then escort you through the enchanting landscape of Costa Rica in our comfortable, air-conditioned, latest model vehicle to your chosen activities. Along the way, your guide will highlight numerous points of interest until you reach your first destination at Cahuita National Park - the beginning of your search for sloths. This park is a home to many sloths living freely in their natural environment. You will discover fascinating facts about these charming creatures, their history, behaviour and more. The adventure continues post Cahuita as you embark on a Scenic Boat Tour in the Tortuguero Canal, where sloths are commonly found due to their preference for habitats close to rivers.
NOTE: This tour is aimed at observing sloths in their natural surroundings. We do not interfere or manipulate the animals, nor do we visit sanctuaries.
- This tour is exclusive for cruise ship passengers. If you are not arriving by cruise ship please do not book this tour
Location
Puerto Limon cruise port
Puerto Limon: Main entrance of the pier (main street). It is about one block from your ship and 5 minutes’ walk. There you will see our staff holding a sign with your name on it.
For assistance you can call us at Office: (506)2297-0889 or Whatsapp: +(506) 85302973
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.2
(42 Ratings)
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Dan_d
Mar 24, 2024
Best tour guide & driver in the world! - Ariel and Charlie are the best team of tour guide/driver combo we have ever experienced in our lives. They are amazing at their jobs and very friendly. Obviously love showing off their beautiful country and sharing this sights and great information.
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Scottandteresar
Mar 10, 2024
sloths - Natalia and driver Gianer were wonderful. They pointed out sloths, monkeys, birds, and plants. Natalie was knowledgeable about the area, and was very sweet. Gianer assisted my elderly mom on and off the bus. We enjoyed our day!
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Danaover
Dec 9, 2023
Amazing Day in Costa Rica with Amazing wildlife - We booked this tour for our day trip in Costa Rica. Our guide Natalie, and our driver Melvin, were waiting for us outside the gate at the port as promised. Besides myself and my friend, there were 16 others that took this same day trip with us.
The bus was clean and the air conditioning was amazing. Natalie spoke excellent english and really educated us on the culture and communities of Limon.
The tour specifically stated that there was no guarantee that we would see any animals during our tour. We were quite lucky to encounter sloths 4 times as well as iguanas , monkeys and a toucan. Our driver Melvin was able to pull our mini bus over on more than once when he spotted wildlife from our bus!! He was the animal whisperer for sure.
What I did not like about this tour was the “ Organic Banana Plantation”. This was merely a small walk around a gift shop that had various plants and vegetation. This stop was
Basically to get you to go into a gift shop that was way too small for all the tourist. They crammed in there so that you would purchase something and the tour company would get credit. We had the same experience on other tours we took during our cruise.
I guess the negative didn’t seem to really matter after we were able to encounter so many beautiful animals and learn so much from our tour guide Natalie.
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Lb045610
Nov 25, 2023
Best tour we've ever done. - This was one of the most informative, fun excursions we've ever done. I wish I could remember the tour guides name because he was excellent. We saw sloths, monkeys, iguanas, viper, raccoons, etc., all different kinds of plants and flowers, cocoa, coffee cherry. We got lessons on how banana, chocolate and coffee are grown. Dont miss this tour!
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Paula
May 5, 2023
Great! - It was so easy to locate our tour guide and bus. Our ship was 2 hours delayed and when I called them they sad no worries. Great day
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Susan_l
Mar 28, 2023
Slothe Lovers excursion - We had a great day. Alberto was wonderful. It was such an enjoyable tour. We saw lots of wildlife including slothes, monkeys, iguanas, boa constrictor and much more. Our driver was very helpful and a good driver. It was great having an air conditioned bus. We also stopped for lunch and got a taste of local food which was very good. I would recommend this trip. Alberto gets a big thumbs up as a tour guide. He could really spot the wildlife and head lots of interesting facts. Thank you!
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Nebbsters
May 1, 2023
"Sloth Lovers Tour" is misleading...but an otherwise nice day seeing natural sites of Costa Rica - This was hardly a "Sloth Lovers" tour...we saw two sloths the entire day. Both were sleeping and curled up in a ball at the very top of a tree...so all we could see were their hind quarters. Very disappointing.
However, the walks through Cahuita Nature park and the boat ride along the Tortuguero canal were pleasant enough. For us, the highlight of the day was the Banana plantation...learning more about how bananas are grown and distributed was surprisingly interesting!
The guide and driver were very friendly and informative...our only complaint was that the title of this tour is misleading. Perhaps revise the tour to include a sanctuary where an actual sloth could be seen up close and personal.
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Suebyndave
Dec 12, 2023
Good tour but not what I expected .good guide and driver but underwhelmed - We Met with the mini bus taking us through the terminal as directed.
In the trees in the park there was a mother 2 toad sloth with its baby and the father sloth a few trees away up some not so big trees so got as close as we were going to get to a sloth about 30 ft up .
The mini bus tour guide was very good and knowledgeable also the driver was on the lookout for wildlife whilst driving he pulled over when he spotted some howler monkeys at the side of the main road up some trees and pointed out some weaver bird nests.
The first stop was cahuita where we walked up a path at the side of the beach and in a wooded area along with lots of other groups of tourists. We walked about half a mile spotting two 3 toed sloths about 50ft up and hearing howler monkeys but not seeing them . When I booked I imagined walking into the rainforest seeing toucans tree frogs and various wildlife so was a bit of an anti climax.!
We then went to a banana plantation . Busy again with tourists but ok .
We then went onto the tortougeura canal . Disappointing again as didn’t see much only 1 3 toed sloth 2 type of iguana and 2 egret type birds .
when I booked I imagined going up a canal into the rainforest with toucans tropical birds butterflies and other wildlife . but in reality the canal runs down the side of a road in parts with other boats all looking for wildlife.
In all the tour was good informative and well put together but I would have rather have gone deeper to the forest in cahuita .
I understand wildlife are free and not guaranteed to be seen but when you book this don’t envisage seeing loads of sloths and wildlife and being deep in the rainforest because in reality your very close to human civilisation and don’t see much wildlife.
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Dream793853
Apr 4, 2023
Disappointed - We expected to tour the sloth sanctuary based on information provider in the ad. However this was not the case. The river cruise was uneventful. The guide was very nice and the best part.
Would not recommend this excursions terribly disappointing.
Save your money
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H2802gurobertw
Sep 16, 2023
Sloth tour - The tour operator never turned up... end of story... they said when I telephoned after waiting for 30 minutes that they did not have our ship recod=rded as in the harbour that day andyet I had 2 E mails from them confirming the day and the time etc...
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