Corcovado National Park
Tour 1
Carate/Sirena/Carate
Three days/two nights in Sirena.
The Journey
From the small town of Carate, your Costa Rica guide will lead you along a beach and to the Leona Ranger Station. After a short break for drinks, you will enter the Corcovado National Park and continue through 17km of beach and jungle to the Sirena Ranger Station, your home for the next three days.
As well as rustic dorm rooms and camping spaces, Sirena has a number of open trails for you to explore. Some are as short as 30 minutes and others as long as 6 hours, but each one isolated enough for you to experience the very essence of rainforest life.
Highlights
Along the beach to Leona, you are likely to spot a variety of sea turtles, including the leatherback and the hawksbill. Their nesting season, between July and October, is said to draw hungry jaguars. But please don’t get your hopes up. These creatures are very elusive and even in this part of the world, an endangered species. Large flocks of Scarlett macaws fly screeching overhead as the Pacific Ocean waves Pound the isolated tropical beach.
Before you reach Sirena, your guide will lead you across two Costa Rica rivers, the Rio Claro and the Rio Madrigal. At Rio Claro it is common see the scaly body of an American crocodile floating in the river mouth, its protruding eyes always observing.
Day 2
On the Sirena trails with your guide.
The trails at the Sirena Park Station include the Sirena trail, the Ollas trail, the Claro trail, the Naranjo trail, the Espaneles trail and the Guanacaste trail.
>While the Ollas trail is said to be the one of the best places to see the elusive jaguar, it is on the Claro trail that you are most likely to spot rare wildlife. Wading through the peaceful waters of Rio Claro is the chance to observe the exotic scarlet macaws, the evil looking poison dart frog and six species of kingfisher.
Day 3
You hike the beach and jungle trail to Carate for transport back to Jimenez
$480 per person which includes bilingual guide, all park permits, transport to and from Puerto Jimenez to Carate, dorm room bed or tent, meals and snacks. Additional nights available on request.
Tour 2
Los Patos/Sirena/Carate
Four days/three nights.
The Journey
Day 1
From Jimenez you take a four wheel drive truck with your guide to Rio Rincon where you enter Corcovado national park and begin the 6k hike up river to Los Patos ranger station, in the afternoon your Costa Rican guide will take you to a waterfall to cool off.
Highlights
You will spend your first day at the Los Patos ranger station, a heavily forested area teeming with rainforest birds such as the rofous pilna, the chestnut-manibled toucan and the hummingbird. Yet, despite its abundance of wildlife, you are not the only humans in the region. Just up the trail is a Gyayan Indian reservation. The tribe will generally welcome tourists and particularly if you are looking to purchase one of their Indian handicrafts.
The lowland forests are abundant with Osa Peninsula wildlife, including Coatmundis and the agouti. It is also common to see the Baird’s Tapir, a species rare in almost every other country in the world. There are four species of monkeys, sloths, pumas, toucans, macaws, and hawks.
One of the biggest thrills on this Costa Rica tour package is seeing a herd of up to 100 white-lipped peccaries. They may look like a cute bunch of furry pigs, but don’t be fooled. They are not averse to charging the most dangerous predator.
Day 2
From Los Patos Ranger Station it is easy to understand why Corcovado is Spanish for hunchback. Your Costa Rica guide will lead you up 5 km of steep terrain and into high, wet rainforest, the remaining 14k the trail flattens out and turns into a pleasant stroll the rest of the way through the rainforest canopy to Sirena station where you spend the night.
Day 3
Day three is spent exploring the Sirena trails with your guide. Third night at Sirena.
Day 4
You begin the 20k hike on the beach and through the rainforest to Carate where transport takes you back to Jimenez.
$580 per person four days/three nights.
$695 per person for five days/four nights.
Price includes.
Bilingual guide, private 4x4 truck to Rio Rincon, all park permits, dorm room or tent at Los Patos and Sirena, meals and snacks, transport from Carate to Jimenez.
It is also possible to charter a boat or small plane from Jimenez to Sirena. Please request a quote for the latest prices.