Time permitting you will visit the Quaker cheese factory and the women's co-op for local crafts. Spend two nights at a Monteverde hotel. Two hour ride on the gentle Corobici River. Continue through Guanacaste, Costa Rica's cattle ranching country, to the Pacific coast at Tamarindo. A naturalist will guide a wildlife boat tour on the estuary.
Huge females come ashore for the arduous nesting process.
After digging the nesting cavity in the sand, they lay about 80 eggs. Two nights at a Tamarindo hotel.