Activities Links

As you, our friends and customers, give us positive feedback on your experiences with local tours and activities, we will add information and, when available, links to Web sites or email.

Be sure to contact us before you book any tours or activities! We can usually obtain a discounted rate, and we can ensure that you are booking with the best tour operators in the area. This includes rental cars in Quepos, too!   

Quepos / Manuel Antonio Park
• General Tour Information including Bird Watching, Bungee Jumping, Diving and Snorkeling, Hiking, Horseback Riding, Mountain Biking, River Rafting and Kayaking, Sea Kayaking, Sport Fishing, Surfing, and Wind Surfing
• Freddy Tours: Guided walking tours of Manuel Antonio Park
  or call Freddy at 8895-3160 or Jasmine at 8874-5086.
• Canopy Safari "The best, the Oldest, the Safest..." Sail high above the rainforest canopy and experience a most popular adventure sport: the canopy zip line.
• Dream Forest Canopy offers an exhilerating 2,000 foot (600 meter) canopy tour in Manual Antonio Park
• Safari Mangrove Tours gives boat and kayak tours of Damas Island and Manuel Antonio Park
• Try Sunset Sails for Spectacular Sunsets, Dolphins and Marine Life, and good food too
• Visit Iguana Tours for Canopy Tours, Boat Tours, Hiking in the Forest, Kayaking, White Water Rafting, and Sport Fishing
• Priss Tours, sponsored by Hotel Le Priss located in downtown Quepos, offers a wide variety of activities.
• Villa Vanilla botanical Garden and Spice Tour—located near Naranjito, just East of Quepos—is an example of sustainable agriculture including vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa, black pepper, and allspice, plus a variety of fruits, orchids, and bromeliads.

  Hills of Portalon / Matapalo / Playa Matapalo

• Hiking in the mountains, jungle, and along the beach
• Horseback riding on and around Playa Matapalo with Finca Arco Iris Tel: 2787-5133

  (Hiking is spectacular in the Hills of Portalon surrounding Villa Esmeralda. Horseback tours are available from the beaches of Playa Matapalo just down the road. Local guides offer a variety of different tours in English, Spanish, and German.)

  Dominical

• Hacienda Baru offers a variety of hiking and canopy tours just north of Dominical.
• Reptilandia is a zoo-style park in a natural setting, dedicated to reptiles of all types.
• Surfing the beaches of Dominical ranks among the best.

  Southern Pacific Coast

• Snorkling / SCUBA Diving
• Sportfishing

Additional Links

• The Hills of Portalon site provides further information about the development in which Villa Esmeralda is located.

• Patrick Heinen of HEG Engineering, Costa Rica's premier home builder, completed construction of Villa Esmeralda in 2007. For those who enjoy 'behind the scenes' views, some construction photos are available.

• Photos from Villa Esmeralda and the surrounding area are available for your enjoyment.