Hiking activities in Costa Rica
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ATEC
This highly reputable not-for-profit organisation promotes sustainable tourism by working with local guides and supporting local communities. Hiking, horseback riding and canoe trips involve bird-watching and visiting indigenous territories and local farms. Depending on the activity, half-day excursions start at about US$20 and go up to US$600 for month-long raptor-counting volunteer stints. The office is in the center of town.
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Bosque Eterno de los Niños
If you’ve ever felt cynical about school children asking for money to save the rainforest, then you really must see what they purchased with all that spare change. Keep in mind, however, that this enormous 220-sq-km reserve, which dwarfs both the Monteverde and Santa Elena reserves, is largely inaccessible. The international army of children who paid the bills decided that it was more important to provide a home for local wildlife among the primary and secondary forest (and to allow former agricultural land to be slowly reclaimed by the jungle) than to develop a lucrative tourist infrastructure.
The effort has allowed for one fabulous trail that hooks into a system of…
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