Letter codes: (BG) bilingual guide, (B) breakfast, (L) lunch, (D) dinner.

Day 1: Flight to San José, Costa Rica (D)
You will board your flight for San José, where you will be met on arrival and transferred to your home. Overnight with your Costa Rican family.

Day 2: At COSI (B,D)
Classes at Costa Rica Spanish Institute (COSI) during the morning and free afternoon to do activities on your own. Overnight with your Costa Rican family.

Day 3: InBioparque (BG) (B,L,D)
During the morning, you will receive Spanish classes at COSI and in the afternoon, our guide will pick you up to take you to InBioparque, located in the province of Heredia. This educational and recreational center exposes visitors to samples of the vast world of biological diversity that can be found in Costa Rica and its National Parks. Some of the things that InBioparque offers are modern and interactive exhibition pavilions, interpreted trails, groups of plant species from the three different forests of Costa Rica (pre-montane, tropical humid, and tropical dry forests), a lagoon with native species of plants, fishes, and water insects, crops of ornamental, aromatic and medicinal plants, as well as fruit trees and much more. Overnight with your Costa Rican family.

Day 4: Cultural CoffeeTour (BG) (B,L,D)
Classes at COSI during the morning and CoffeeTour in the afternoon. After classes, our guide will pick you up to take you to Café Britt´s farm in Heredia, where you will learn about the journey that coffee itself takes, from the coffee plantation to its destination: the coffee cup. We will visit an actual coffee plantation and in a plantation theater you will see the widely entertaining story of the history of coffee. Afterward, tour members can purchase packaged gourmet coffee at factory prices or have their purchases mailed to any location in the U.S. Overnight with your Costa Rican family.

Day 5: At COSI (B,D)
Classes at COSI during the morning and free afternoon to do activities on your own. Last night & overnight with your Costa Rican family.

Day 6: San José/ La Paz Waterfall Gardens/Arenal Volcano (BG) (B,L)
Our guide will pick you up in the morning to take you to Arenal Volcano Area. This volcano is famous for its steaming, rumbling cone and spewing lava. On the way, you will visit La Paz Waterfall Gardens, where you will discover the power and beauty of nature with the 5 magnificent waterfalls, the Hummingbird Gallery, and the Butterfly Observatory present in this place. Overnight at Arenal Paraíso Hotel.

Day 7: Arenal / Manuel Antonio (BG) (B)
Our guide will pick you up in the morning to take you to Manuel Antonio beach, located in Quepos (Central Pacific Coast of Costa Rica). Free afternoon to explore the area on your own or just relax beside the pool. Overnight at Villa Bosque Hotel.

Day 8: At Manuel Antonio. (BG) (B)
This morning you will visit Manuel Antonio National Park, where you will have a very close contact with nature while you walk along the trails and monkeys surprise you and welcome you to this beautiful place. Free afternoon to do activities on your own. Overnight at Villa Bosque Hotel.

Day 9: Manuel Antonio / San José (BG) (B)
Our guide will take you back to your hotel in San José. Overnight at Torremolinos Hotel.

Day 10: Back Home (BG) (B)
Our guide will pick you up in your hotel to take you to Juan Santamaría International Airport approximately two hours before your flight’s scheduled departure time.

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