Group Sloth and Bird Tour in Arenal/La Fortuna
If you want to see sloths during your time in Costa Rica, this is the perfect tour. Not only that, but lots of other animals and birds can be seen along the trail.
With a bilingual naturalist guide, you’ll explore a small biological reserve near downtown La Fortuna. Along the flat, easy-to-navigate path, your guide will help you spot sloths as well as other birds and animals like toucans, butterflies, and lizards. You’ll also see the organic garden on the property and learn about some of Costa Rica’s native fruits and vegetables.
After the hike, you’ll head to the tour company’s farm for a delicious homemade snack (empanada with cheese) and fresh juice.
The hike is about 1.25 miles (2 km). This tour is perfect for families traveling with young children or anyone looking for a short hike to see wildlife.
This is an ethical sloth tour where you can see sloths in the wild.
Cost of Group Tour (15 people maximum): $74 per person adults. $50 per person children ages 4-11. Rates plus 13% tax.
Offered: 7:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 3.5-4 hours door to door from your lodging (approximate)
Includes: Bilingual certified naturalist guide with spotting scope, round-trip transportation from your hotel or vacation rental, drinks, snack, and entrance fee.
Minimum Age: 4. If you’re traveling with children younger than 4, we recommend a private tour so that the guide can go at your family’s pace.
To learn more about this experience, read our post, A Sloth and Bird Tour in La Fortuna.
Kathy (Verified Customer) –
Once again, Two Weeks in Costa Rica set us up with a pro. Dionosio was a real expert. This is a small reserve, but beautifully maintained. The owner even took an interest, and directed us to where he had seen a sloth earlier. Our guide talked about the plants and flowers, we saw insects, lizards, birds, rodents, and several sloths in different trees throughout, even a baby. Dionosio used his scope and helped us with photos that look like National Geographic entries. We went early in the morning, and had the reserve to ourselves and spent almost 1-1/2 hours exploring, though it’s not a large place. After, our guide took us to an open-air restaurant owned by the tour company where they served us a “snack” of cheese tortilla and fresh fruit and juice. This was a beautiful place as well. The tour was well-organized and we felt it was well worth the money. There are so many tour choices on the internet when planning a trip like this, and we didn’t want to run the risk of being disappointed. I highly recommend Two Weeks in Costa Rica for setting us up with an excellent tour operator.
Glenn Sullivan (Verified Customer) –
I would definitely recommend this tour, it’s on an organic farm/garden and the owner goes out every morning to look for sloths & puts a marker in the ground. Diego showed us 3 x2 toed sloths & 1x 3 toed, 2 sloths even moved, scratched the sloth moths away and looked at us!!! We were so pleased and Diego took videos & photos on our phones through his scope. We could also look through his scope for more detailed views. We also saw a blue jean frog, tiger heron, northern jacanar, a colony of bats under a large leaf & lizards.
Diego cut a ripe cacao fruit off a tree and split it open so we could eat the fruit inside which covers the cacao itself.
Afterwards we had empanadas, fruit & juice. We then had the option of seeing a dead venomous snake which had been killed by one of the farm workers, it was just over a metre long.
All in all a very enjoyable morning!
Paresh (Verified Customer) –
The guide was awesome. We were fortunate to get really great guides from booking tours on this website. Last stop at the farm was epic! We show so many wildlife
So many gray photos. Even if you are not taking photos, the variety of birds to watch was amazing. I could sit there all day and wished I did! Highly recommend!