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Tortuguero Canal Eco Cruise: Explore Banana and Cocoa Plantations in Puerto Limon
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Embark on a thrilling Tortuguero Canal Eco Cruise in Puerto Limon. Explore banana and cocoa plantations, spot wildlife, and learn about the Costa Rican economy. Don’t miss out!
Embark on a thrilling Tortuguero Canal Eco Cruise in Puerto Limon. Explore banana and cocoa plantations, spot wildlife, and learn about the Costa Rican economy. Don’t miss out!
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Tortuguero Canal - The canals that lead to the Tortuguero National Park begin in the Puerto Moin sector, just 5 miles from the center of the Limon province. This moin sector has small docks for small boats that make the trip along the Caribbean coast, until they reach their final point in Barra de Colorado. This system of natural and artificial…
- Tortuguero Canal - The canals that lead to the Tortuguero National Park begin in the Puerto Moin sector, just 5 miles from the center of the Limon province. This moin sector has small docks for small boats that make the trip along the Caribbean coast, until they reach their final point in Barra de Colorado. This system of natural and artificial canals made by man, are a tourist attraction because it runs through beautiful sectors of forests, small towns and offers a perfect opportunity to admire a large number of wild animals such as monkeys, sloths, iguanas, alligators, waterfowl and many more.
What's Included
- Professional guide
- Visit banana and chocolate plantations
- Boat tour along Tortuguero Canals
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Visit local souvenir stores
- Fresh Fruits Snack
- Professional guide
- Visit banana and chocolate plantations
- Boat tour along Tortuguero Canals
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Visit local souvenir stores
- Fresh Fruits Snack
Additional Information
After the pick up from the pier, a short bus drive will take you to Moin warf.
Board your covered boat for a 60 minutes leisurely cruise through the jungle canals. Your guide explains the rain forest eco-system and points out sights of interest. Keep an eye out for wildlife including howler monkeys, many sloths, toucans, aquatic birds, bats and…
After the pick up from the pier, a short bus drive will take you to Moin warf.
Board your covered boat for a 60 minutes leisurely cruise through the jungle canals. Your guide explains the rain forest eco-system and points out sights of interest. Keep an eye out for wildlife including howler monkeys, many sloths, toucans, aquatic birds, bats and crocodiles as well as exotic flora.
After the boat ride, enjoy a snack of fresh tropical fruits before to board your mini bus again for the journey to the next destination. The banana plantations.
Puerto Limon is a large producer of bananas and Costa rica the second exporter in the word. With our professional tour guide, learn many facts about this crop and why is so important for the Costa Rican economy.
Besides bananas, you will visit cocoa plantations and learn about chocolate production.
Finaly a visit to local souvenir stores is included on this tour.
- Collapsible wheelchairs with removable wheels can be accommodated providing the passenger is accompanied by someone who can assist them board and disembark
- This tour is exclusive for cruise ship passengers. If you are not arriving by cruise ship please do not book this tour
Location
Puerto Limon cruise port
Puerto Limon: Main entrance of the pier (main street). It is about one block from your ship and 5 minutes’ walk. There you will see our staff holding a sign with your name on it.
For assistance you can call us at Office: (506)2297-0889 or Whatsapp: +(506) 8530 2973
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(24 Ratings)
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Patrice
Feb 22, 2024
Amazing tour - This was our third visit to Costa Rica.
Our guide was outstanding. His love of his country and his enthusiasm to share his knowledge made this tour beyond 5 stars.
Best tour of our cruise.
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Jessica_e
Mar 1, 2023
Sloths, Bananas, and Rain Forests… Oh My! - Really enjoyed the tour. Was a great way to experience Limon, Costa Rica in just a few hours. The tour guides were awesome and shared a lot of great facts!
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Thad
Jan 30, 2023
Great tour of the Puerto Limon area while in port - We took this excursion while in Costa Rica and had a great time. Berto was our guide and first took us to the canal where we saw several howler monkeys, sloths, a crocodile. He pointed out a toucan, but it was fairly high in the tree and difficult to see. Following the boat ride, we were served fresh fruit: watermelon, papaya and pineapple. We then headed to a banana "plantation" where we were served organic bananas and had a chance to sample Costa Rican coffee. The banana fields were not very large, but Alberto was able to inform us of the growing and harvesting processes which was very interesting. Our next stop was a rain forest which borders the Caribbean Sea where we saw Capuchin monkeys, raccoons and other wildlife. The tour was great and Berto did a great job. The tour left the port at 8:00 as scheduled (9:00 "ship time") which caused some confusion from some of our fellow travelers, but we returned in plenty of time to shop the craft market before returning to the ship. Also, a couple tours were combined onto one bus due to logistics which bothered some, but we were able to see more than the tour promised. It was a great day in Costa Rica.
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Nana444
Jan 10, 2023
Great Eco Tour - We saw lots of wildlife, including sloths, and monkeys. Our guide, Alberto, did a wonderful job. He has the right personality and enthusiasm to be a really great guide. The tour included a boat trip on the canal, a visit to a organic plantation as well as a visit to a national park. We enjoyed all aspects of the tour and highly recommend it.
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Tammy
Nov 11, 2022
Top Tour with Top Tour Guide with No Worries! - OMG!!! This was such a Fabulous Trip... Our tour guide Graybean and driver Eugene were the BEST..... we were concerned since the cruise lines always scare you that other tour operators booked off ship may get you back to late, etc.... we did not need to worry.... they were there to pick us up before time, and had us back in time to do some extra shopping if we wanted back at the pier. Graybean knew everything about Costa Rica, the people, religions, animals, plants, etc in an exciting and learning way which was Fun! He was always looking for different animals to insure to show us... even those hidden... he would stop and make sure we all had a chance to see. We saw so many different types of animals, plants, beach, and so much more. We had other friends on the ship that took the cruise tours and they did not see 1/2 as much as we did.
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Tom
Nov 10, 2022
Great day in Limon - Amazing tour seeing much of the local wildlife (sloths, monkeys, etc) and the best of tour guides, Alberto!
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Barry_s
Jan 26, 2022
Great Experience - Alberto made our trip a wonderful experience. He is so personal, attentive, knowledgeable, and in our opinion went above our expectations. We saw so much wildlife due to his amazing keen eyes. Alberto and our driver Eugene were simply the best.
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Robertmbb
May 20, 2024
Nice day of country excursions - Our tour included a stop to view a slow-moving sloth on the way to the Tortuguero Canal tour which was filled with bird observations and some monkeys picking bananas. The plantation visit was very informative, however is more just a smapling of a plantation.
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Ksufan88
Mar 30, 2023
Educational and lots of opportunities to spot animals - We were visiting off of a cruise ship and had to walk completely outside the pier area to meet a tour representative who escorted us to our minibus for the day. Our trip leader, Ariel, provided us with lots of information about Costa Rica as we drove down the coast for about 45 minutes to the Cahuita National Park which trail starts at the edge of the local town. There were bathrooms available at the park entrance along with concessions. The trail was a fairly flat and well marked trail. Our guide helped point out wildlife along the way. We were able to spot 3-toed sloths ( very high up the trees), orb spiders who made several large webs along the trail, some monkeys, as well as industrious ants and a resting yellow eyelash viper. Next, we stopped at an organic banana plantation where we were able to sample a few fresh bananas as well as have the coffee, cocoa bean, and banana growth and exports explained to us. Finally, we were driven to the Tortoguero National park where we boarded a boat for a cruise along the canal where we were fortunate enough to see a few caiman, a “Jesus Christ” Basilisk, howler monkeys, and a two-toed sloth.
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Kenneth_c_vancouver
Jan 25, 2023
Amazing guide, excellent bus, unfortunate delays - Guide Berto was amazing, the bus itself was excellent and the in summary the tour was superb. On the other hand, the Greenway office decision-making proved to be frustrating and disappointing.
This was a purchased tour during a cruise ship stop. So limited time ashore. Our ticket was for 8am and we were at the designated pickup place at 8am and boarded the bus shortly afterwards. However “the office” made the decision to wait for more people (seemingly the 9am group) and so we had to wait on the bus for an hour before we departed. Unacceptable. Unfortunately, our guide Berto was left to take the heat from the load of on time 8am passengers who were clearly unhappy about a 1 hour delay.
On the plus side this was probably the best tour bus I have ever ridden. It looked brand new. Seats that reclined. Excellent air conditioning.
And guide Berto succeeded in calming the unhappy guests with his amazing communication skills. He was very knowledgeable. And reassuring for salvaging our schedule and ensuring we would be back at the ship on time. He proved to be a truly excellent and professional guide. He saved the day on this one.
The tour was exactly what we wanted to include close at hand sloths, caimans (crocs), birds, spiders and even a snake. There was a very informative tour of a banana, coffee and cacao plantation. A stunningly well done boat ride in a jungle supported excellent photo opportunities. And a jungle walk which provided additional photo experiences.
The only unfortunate part of this experience was that someone in the Greenway office made the decision that we needed to sit on the bus for an hour while they rounded up more passengers.
Otherwise, the guide and the bus and the experience was stellar.
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