Private 4-in-1: Sloth Reserve, Rio Celeste Swimming Hole and Llanos del Cortés

A private booking, and the itinerary can be adjusted before you go. It starts in a protected private reserve with a local expert guide. Sloths are the reason most people book it, but the walk also turns up toucans, monkeys, poison dart frogs, reptiles and a long list of birds, all of them where they live rather than in enclosures. Llanos del Cortés comes next. The water falls in a wide curtain into a pool with a sandy beach beside it, and swimming there is the point of the stop. The Rio Celeste closes the day, blue in the way that gets it photographed, with the Miravalles and Tenorio volcanoes standing behind it. The group is private and the reserve is off the busier routes, so the day runs quietly, which is what the tour is built around.