Wildlife Nature Hike, Blue Waterfall, Lunch & Sloth Trail - Tenorio Volcano Park

Playa Grande Tours is our go to when we visit Costa Rica. This was our 4th excursion with them and as usual, they were great. I actually connected with them weeks before our trip. They responded quickly and were very helpful. Ariel will help with whatever you want to do! For every trip, we have been fortunate enough to have Jose as our driver. He is always on time, very safe and wonderful with our college photographers. He works very hard to make certain our trips are perfect. Ariel can be reached at +506 8722 4778. It’s just an excellent experience.

Tenorio Volcano National Park is a paradise for nature lovers, we saw a Tapir, a turtle and a snake. The whole park is conditioned for walking but has a medium difficulty for those who do not have a minimum physical condition. I totally recommend buying tickets in advance because in the park there is no signal, in the entrance they provide WiFi but it is not going very well.

We loved it, it is definitely a must-see! We did the trekking in 2.30 hours in total. The place is wonderful and very clean. To do it without a guide, I recommend buying the ticket a day in advance from the park's official website, since there are entry times.

All I know is this was awesome and our guide Jose is amazing. This was our second tour with him. From stopping so we can get breakfast to helping us find a souvenir we needed to picking out a great lunch spot and great conversation. Plus, the watermelon and sugar can juice he got for us after the hike!! He is amazing! The hike was gorgeous to the falls, swimming in the blue river was amazing and refreshing then we got to go check out all the different wildlife to include a monkey, a Tucan a couple of crazy looking frogs and almost 10 different sloths!!! We had a great guide that Jose hooked us up with that could find the amazing creatures! We just had the greatest time thanks to Jose!!!! This was our second trip with Jose in a four day span. We didn't book the second one till after we hung out with Jose on the first one. We requested him for this one and Playa Grande was exceptionally flexible and accommodated our request and we can't thank them enough as well. These people made our vacation absolutely amazing!! Jose was good luck too because we had two amazing days with him!! Thanks Jose!!

We used PlayaGrande Shuttle & Tours for 3 of our tours while visiting Costa Rica. It was the BEST choice we made for our vacation. Without knowing much about Costa Rica they helped with suggestions of various activities and events that were catered to what we wanted. We have two kids (9 & 11) and all of the activities were safe, FUN, and each was better than the last. We zip lined, hiked, did a beach horseback ride, saw so much wildlife, and much more. When we come back we will DEFINATELY call upon PlayaGrande Shuttle & Tour for their services, advise, and experience. The local knowledge with our GREAT GUIDE and DRIVER (Jose) could not have been a better experience and we now consider him a friend. He picked us up at our VRBO on time, communicated in perfect English, and was an overall PLEASEURE to experience our trip. We immediately felt like he was a part of our family and just as excited to join us and lead us on the tours as if he were doing it for the first time (except he had all of the knowledge we needed). What a please to be!

Omg!! This tour is a must!! You can't go back home without experiencing this!! You got to do this one!! This company is great but outstanding was their tour guy Jose!! You must ask for him since comparing him to others, he is by far THE BEST!! he is very knowledgeable, very patient and explained everything in detail. He was extremely personalized, he made us feel very well taken care of and truly had his heart in it to ensure we had the best experience. We did 5 different tours with this company and I asked for jose on every one. It was hard to be happy with a couple other tours we did with another company because he truly set the bar very high 😁. I am coming back soon and will definitely be using this company. We saw one of the largest waterfalls in the world, swam in blue water, got to see sloths 🦥 up close and a lot of beautiful insects in the rain forest. It was Amazing!

We loved Rio Celeste. The hike was worth it! Our guide for this tour was Jeffry, he was great, very nice and funny. After the waterfall, we went swimming in the river and he took a bunch of pictures of us. The locals gave us oranges, coconut water, pineapple and other great snacks! After that Jeffry took us to see the sloths, which were adorable and one of them was very close to us and let us take great pictures of him. I recommend this tour and Jeffrey!

So beautiful!!!! The hike was amazing and in some points hard but is all worthy my wife and I love it! The color of the river is like if you were in a fairy tale, incredible and very beautiful. Costa Rica is so beautiful in many ways!

This hike was amazing! I 100% recommend it. It was fun and exciting and a little bit dangerous but awesome.

Near the main entrance and above the road is a tree of approximately 300 years old, which perches such great majesty with the width of the stem and the height of the colossal that it houses hundreds of parasites in its crowns! An admirable tree called: “Peace Tree”