Costa Flores is an innovative, and very successful, alternative agriculture project. This company grows and exports colorful tropical plants such as heliconias, gingers and ornamental bananas. There is a reception area for visitors, from which radiates a creative network of concrete walkways through gardens of tropical flowers. Each is labeled with its scientific and common English name. The tour concludes at the packing plant where visitors watch the process, from rinsing the blooms, to arranging bouquets of all the colors of the rainbow, to packing for markets.
Blooms harvested in the morning are on the plane by afternoon.
Today we explore by boat the flora and fauna of Tortuguero National Park. In the afternoon enjoy a rain forest walk accompanied by our guide. Overnight at Pachira Lodge. A narrow, vegetation covered beach strand separates the low-lying land from the ocean. Located in the extreme northeast of Costa Rica, Tortuguero's Tropical Moist to Wet Forest is accessible only by small plane or boat, along the famous Tortuguero Canals.