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One Day Tours from La Fortuna and the Arenal Volcano area

Tours:

 

Famous 5 colones bill!

Allegory to Coffee and Bananas - Aleardo Villa - National Theatre - Costa Rica

The most famous painting of the theater is an allegory to the two most important export products of the country, coffee and bananas. Aleardo Villa ( italian painter ) was not very familiar with our country, so he made a few technical mistakes that made the painting funny and unique. The bananas in the bunch are up side down. The coffee plantations are painted at sea level, what is wrong. The coffee bushes are too small and the women are typical shobby, very elegant nord italian ladies, very different from our coffee pickers. The oxen have the yoke on their necks. Imagine the poor oxen strangled by pulling all that weight. Normally the yoke is tied up to the horns and head. Although he made some mistakes, it is a nice painting and was chosen as a motif for our 5 colones bill. The bill is out of circulation but it can be purchased outside as a collection item.

Venado caves

Arenal Volcano
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Venado caves

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This tour leaves from La Fortuna at 8:00 a.m. for a one-hour transfer to the Venado Village.

The caves were formed during the Miocene period, 15 or 20 million years ago. For many years they were under sea level and due to tectonic movements they surfaced.

The Guatuzos aborigines discovered the caves. Limestone rocks, stalactites, stalagmites and corals, form most of the caves. The whimsical stone formations are formed by the underground river.

The length of the tour into the caves is 1 ½ hour. During this time we will find marine fossils, and also bats, spiders and crickets.

Because we will have to walk through the river and waterfalls from the upper part of the cave, we recommend our customers to take light clothes, hiking shoes and extra clothes to be able to change when they finish the exploration of the caves.

Transportation, Bilingual guide (English - Spanish), Entrance fee, Refreshments, water and cookie.

Camera, rain gear during the green season, clothing for warm weather.

From 0 to 2 years old are complimentary. From 3 to 8 years old there is a children rate.

Duration: 4 hours

Language: Spanish and English

Operates: Daily

Frecuency: Once in the morning.

Pick up: Aprox. at 7:00 a.m.

Drop off: Aprox. at 4:30 p.m.

 
   
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