Top Costa Rica Trips & Tours in August 2026

During your half-day morning birding tour, your guide will help you spot up to 350 species of birds that live in the Reserve. While hiking through the pristine Monteverde cloud forest, you have a chance to see birds such as the quetzal, toucan, wood creeper, flycatchers, orioles, and grosbeaks. With any luck you may see the three-wattled bellbird.

Visit the Trapiche Coffee Farm, a local family farm established in Monteverde in 1948. You'll learn all about coffee and sugarcane production, with delicious tastings included in the tour!

Visit Jaguar Rescue Center which houses monkeys, snakes, sloths, and jungle cats. Tour the chocolate plantation where the Bri-Bri indigenous make the chocolate from scratch. At the end of the tour, you have the chance to buy homemade chocolate and local handicrafts.

Spend a day exploring the Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, home to over 360 species of birds and some of the best white sand beaches on the Caribbean coast. Explore the park with a guide as you spot manatees, dolphins, howler monkeys, sloths, iguanas, snakes, and poisonous frogs.

This half-day, adrenaline-filled tour is an exciting way to explore the jungle and get a taste of what Costa Rica has to offer. Start your adventure with the longest zip line in Costa Rica, exploring the jungle canopy via ten different platforms and 12 landings. Take the final swing like Tarzan, or do a Superman-style jump for the bottom!

This hanging bridges 1/2-day tour consists of 8 bridges ranging in length from 150-510 feet. High above the Monteverde cloud forest floor, you can see the flora & fauna actively moving about down below. As you make your way on this 2-mile hike, your guide will point out an array of bird life that make their homes in the cloud forest.

Explore the jungle this evening as Monteverde's wildlife comes alive. Your naturalist guide will explain the different sights and sounds you observe throughout your hike. Snakes, spiders, tarantulas, tree frogs, coatimundis, agoutis, sloths, kinkajous, and the highly endangered olingo are among the many species you may spot along the way.

Enjoy the reptiles and amphibians of Costa Rica with your naturalist guide on this half day tour. You can see more than 35 species including venomous and non-venomous snakes, reptiles, lizards, iguanas, amphibians and land turtles all in naturally simulated terrariums. Learn about the history, habitat and individual characteristics of each species.

The best way to appreciate the beauty of Costa Rica's majestic Arenal Volcano is from up close. This exciting half-day adventure begins with a 90-minute walk through the rainforest, as you learn about local plants and wildlife. Take in the sights with a guided tour before enjoying some relaxation time in natural hot springs at dinnertime.