Arenal Highlights: Hanging Bridges, La Fortuna Waterfall, Volcano

Experience the best of Arenal in one day! Explore Mistico Hanging Bridges, La Fortuna Waterfall, and Arenal Volcano. Includes transportation, guide, lunch, and more.

Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Puentes Colgantes del Arenal - Rainforest Naturalist Hike in the park to enjoy and see the flora and fauna of the area
  • La Fortuna Waterfall - We hike to the base to swim on our natural pristine pool
  • Mirador El Silencio - When hiking Arenal Volcano, you have a lot of different trail options. All go around the base of the impressive volcano, giving you different vantage points. In our opinion, one of the best views of Arenal Volcano is from Mirador El Silencio. This series of easy-to-moderate trails leads to a very high lookout. Here, you feel as though you are standing eye to eye with Arenal’s cone-shaped peak
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Professional guide
  • All taxes, fees and handling charges
  • Lunch
  • Snacks
  • Transport by air-conditioned minivan
  • Cold bottled water
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Three adventures in a single day. A walk on the Mistico Hanging Bridges from 8am until 11am. Experience the La Fortuna Waterfall from 11am until 1:30pm. Enjoy your lunch for an hour. Hike around Arenal Volcano from 2:30pm to 5:30pm.

Set off: 7:30am

Return back: 5:30pm

Package includes: Round-trip transportation, all entry charges, bilingual naturalist tour guide, refreshments (water and cookies), and a meal.

What to Pack: Camera, binoculars, comfortable attire, waterproof outerwear, appropriate footwear, insect deterrent.

  • Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Priscilatk4797ee
Aug 20, 2024
We love Mario - Incredible tour, Mario is a love, has a thousand patience and explains everything. We could see sloths despite the rain. Very good food, basic. Yes you have to prepare for a lot of walking, but you miss seeing all nature
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Elodiez623
Aug 20, 2024
Nice hanging bridge and Waterfall experience - The hanging bridge tour brings you in the middle of the rainforest. It's very nice, even if we got a lot of rain! The waterfall is beautiful but we were not allowed to swim in it because of the rain, so there was not a lot to do except exercise with the 500 stairs and take a nice picture. Mario the guide is super experienced. He was spotting animals like a magician! He even spot a Sloth while we were at the waterfall for us to be able to check it on our back to the lunch. For the lunch we stopped at a very decent restaurant. All in all you have a very nice experience for you money!! Thank you Mario! 😁👌🏻
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Allison
Aug 3, 2024
Muy bien - Mario was a great tour guide! He was so knowledgeable and even took pictures for us with the binoculars. We saw so many animals and he was so funny!
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Mar_ajos_hernaizh
Jul 30, 2024
A day trip with Mario of 10. Highly recommended - Excellent experience with Mario as a guide!! Full day with visit to suspension bridges, waterfalls and volcano. Mario has always been very attentive, friendly and a 10 guide!
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Patrick_g
Jul 4, 2024
Happy Tourist! - Mario made this an incredible experience and he was able to spot out a ton of wildlife that made our experience incredible. The wildlife around the hanging bridges was great. The waterfall was a sight to see and the hike to the volcano and learning the history was special. Highly recommend!
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Jennifer_t
Jun 15, 2024
Fun filled day with lots of steps - Had a great day and great weather. Our guide was very friendly and knowledgeable as well. We also had a great local lunch. Would highly recommend. Make sure to bring a towel and water shoes for the waterfall and good shoes with good trekking bottoms for the other two excursions.
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Marrissa_k
May 19, 2024
A must in La Fortuna - I would definitely recommend this excursion if you go to La Fortuna! Pick up and drop off went very smoothly. Our AirBNB was not listed in the provided box but I messaged the company our location and they knew where we were and provided a time for pickup. They arrived promptly at that time! Mario did an amazing job on this tour! He was able to point out a lot of local flora and animals throughout the several parts of this trip. He had a great sense of humor and made the trip fun even when it was wet hot and then rainy later. The lunch provided was a Costan Rica classic dish and was very good. There were waters supplied but no snack so if you want snack I would recommend packing them. Overall, my husband and I had a great time and would highly recommend.
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H4s79cvdpv
Apr 30, 2024
It was so great! I will always remember this tour! - All the experience was amazing! Kenya thank you so much for all the moments you create for us! For be patient, put so much commitment and passion on this tour, we have so much fun! Get so much knowledge, and so great moments! Recommended!
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Meghan_c
Apr 11, 2024
Awesome Excursion! - This excursion was so much fun! Kenya was our guide and she was amazing - so knowledgeable, friendly, and kind. She also double checked to make sure we had everything we need for the day before we left. Definitely wear good hiking shoes and bring a poncho. We got to see awesome wildlife thanks to Kenya’s keen eye. The lunch was good - a large plate of casado. I got the fish option (tilapia) which was great. Would absolutely recommend!
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Ken_f
Apr 3, 2024
Mixed bag - An interesting mix of 5 and 1 stars. The great, all 5 stars: Mario our guide was outstanding. Mauricio our driver was great. The hanging bridges of Mistico were our favorite in CR. The waterfall was a blast, but I highly recommend you stretch first. Our calves were sore for days! The volcano hike had great views. The whole thing was family friendly. The not so great: Pickup was a few minutes late, then we had to wait on the side of the road for a taxi bringing a woman they forgot to pickup earlier. The excursion says it has cold bottled water and snacks were included, so we didn't bring. The tour operator forgot to put the water on the bus so we had to buy our own. They looked at us like we were crazy when we asked about the snacks. None. Most of the tours seemed to cap at 10 people. We assumed that would be the case here as well since the listing described transport by air-conditioned minivan. Transport was by bus and there were 20 of us. The numbers were annoying at Mistico, but not such a big deal for the waterfall or volcano. We thought the numbers were shrinking since some folks only purchased the early part of the tour, but they picked more people up along the way. Conclusion? Definitely do the activities (though maybe over 2 days, not 1). If you can find a way to get Mario as your guide, do it. This tour operator? Maybe not perfect.
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