Selvatura Private Guided Hanging Bridges & Group Sloth Sanctuary Tour
This tour combines a hanging bridges walk with a visit to Sloth Sanctuary at Selvatura. For the hanging bridges, you will have your own private bilingual guide. Since it’s a private guide, they will be able to focus on your interests. The Sloth Sanctuary will be in a small group with a guide from Selvatura.
First, you’ll explore the hanging bridges. Selvatura has 8 hanging bridges ranging from 180-515 feet (55-157 meters). The main focus of the tour is enjoying the amazing panoramic views of the cloud forest canopy from above. With a little luck, you should be able to see some wildlife too. Many kinds of birds can be spotted and wildlife like bats, tarantulas, butterflies, and various kinds of lizards.
Between the bridges, you’ll pass through lush cloud forest along a fairly flat, well-maintained trail. The naturalist guide sets a comfortable pace and makes stops to teach you about the cloud forest and its flora and fauna.
The hike is about 2 miles (3 km) and takes about 2-2.5 hours.
After, you’ll take a short tour (30-40 minutes) of the Sloth Sanctuary on the same property. This is a huge enclosure with around a dozen two-toed sloths. They have been rescued and are unable to be released back into the wild. The nicely maintained facility provides these animals a home that mimics their natural environment. The sloths are often close to visitors as they go about their daily activities, climbing around and feeding, so this is a wonderful opportunity to see these generally elusive animals close up. You’ll have a bilingual guide to teach you about these amazing creatures.
Tour Details
Cost of Private Hanging Bridges Tour + Group Sloth Sanctuary (2026): $150 per person adults, $141 per person students up to age 18, $123 per person children ages 4-11. Free for children under 4. Rates plus 13% tax.
Offered: 8:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. *If you have your own transportation, tours can start on the hour from 8:00 a.m. (before Selvatura opens) to 11 a.m. Please specify in the customer notes if you would prefer this option.
Duration: 3.5 hours total for the 2 activities (approximate)
Includes: Bilingual certified naturalist guides, entrance fees, and round-trip transportation from your hotel or vacation rental provided by Selvatura, if desired.
*If you will have a rental car, we recommend meeting at Selvatura (no 4×4 required).
To read more about these tours, check out our posts, Selvatura Park: Cloud Forest Hanging Bridges Walk and the Sloth Sanctuary at Selvatura in Monteverde.
Other Wildlife Exhibits
Selvatura Park has other wildlife exhibits that you can add on. These are short 30-40 min. guided tours. Just add a note to your order if you’d like to add any of these activities.
Butterfly Garden ($25/adult, $22.50/student 12-18, $17.50/child 4-11): A huge atrium that has been specially planted with flowering trees and plants that butterflies love. You can see about 20 kinds of butterflies, including blue morpho and Costa Rica’s largest, the owl butterfly.
Reptile and Amphibian Exhibit ($25/adult, $22.50/student 12-18, $17.50/child 4-11): Snakes, geckos, frogs, other kinds of reptiles and amphibians found throughout Costa Rica can be seen. The guide will take you around to the terrariums and explain each species and its habitat.
Questions
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STEWART ANGUS (Verified Customer) –
Two Weeks in Costa Rica set us up with Esteban Mendez as our private tour guide of the hanging bridges and jungle walk. He is extremely knowledgeable, personable and speaks great English! He can identify birds by their calls and sounds, he is able to call certain species and ensures you are able to get a good look at them through his spotting scope. We never felt rushed and there were no stupid questions, he was always happy to address and answer them. What an awesome overall experience we had.
The sloth sanctuary was a nice surprise, it is very spacious, well maintained and controlled to ensure the safety and wellness of the sloths while still allowing us access to them. The guide provided by the sanctuary was excellent.
John (Verified Customer) –
Selvatura is an amazing park in its own right and well worth adding to one’s itinerary. The hanging bridges are amazing with great views from above of the cloud forest. One of the things I appreciated about the park is that it is a lot less crowded than the other Monteverde parks. There are a lot of interesting plants and small animals.
Esteban is one the best guides I have experienced. He provided a lot of information about park and its history as well a great deal of help in viewing small animals. He knows a lot about the area and talks about it without overwhelming or distracting us from the magnificence of the surroundings.
Two Weeks in Costa Rica provides an exceptional service. Their website is a treasure trove of useful information about Costa Rica. They were very helpful and played a significant role in making our Costa Rica experience better than we hoped it would be.