Costa Rica Charter Itinerary

Costa Rica Itinerary

Costa Rica Yacht Charter
Costa Rica holds roughly five percent of the world’s biodiversity on three ten-thousandths of its land, and rather more than a quarter of the country is protected. The Pacific coast runs from rainforest in the south to dry tropical forest in the north, and the yacht is the only way to take both.





Golfo Dulce is one of only a handful of tropical fjords anywhere ’ two hundred metres deep, ringed by primary forest, with humpbacks calving in it from two separate hemispheres at different times of year. That is not a distinction many places can claim.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Costa Rica; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Golfo Dulce

Begin in the gulf, with the Osa peninsula on one side and forest running to the waterline on the other. Kayak the mangroves, rappel a waterfall, or ride into the rainforest. At night the water is bioluminescent ’ trail a hand over the side and it lights up behind you. Few first days beat it.
Day 2

Osa Conservation

Spend the day with the researchers at Osa, tagging sharks with marine biologists who will explain, patiently, why it matters. Sea turtles, dolphins and migrating whales pass through the gulf. A ranger-led night walk in the forest afterwards, where the frogs and the insects make more noise than seems possible.
Day 3

Caño Island

Caño is a biological reserve twenty kilometres offshore, and the diving is the best on this coast ’ manta rays, turtles, white-tip reef sharks, and spinner dolphins in pods of a thousand or more. Pre-Columbian stone spheres have been found on the island, and nobody has settled what they were for.
Day 4

Tortuga Island

North along the coast to Tortuga, in the Gulf of Nicoya ’ white sand, calm water, and coral in the shallows. Humpbacks pass this coast on migration, and the southern and northern populations both use it, at opposite ends of the year. Snorkel, swim, and let the afternoon go.
Day 5

Papagayo

The Guanacaste coast is dry forest and volcano. Fly the mountain range by helicopter, land at a hot spring, and soak in water heated by Rincon de la Vieja, which is still active. ATVs, rafting or a horse along the beach if the mood runs that way. The landscape is a different country from Osa.
Day 6

Palo Verde

Up the Tempisque river into Palo Verde, a seasonal wetland that fills with migratory birds and holds American crocodiles of considerable length. Howler and capuchin monkeys in the gallery forest, iguanas on every branch. In the evening, a village fiesta ’ marimba, dancing, and no performance about it.
Day 7

Coastal Costa Rica

A final day between water and forest: paddle the canals, walk a trail, and then inland to a village where the farmers will feed you, explain the coffee, and beat you comprehensively at football. Sunset over the Pacific from the deck. Pura vida is a real phrase here, used constantly, and meant.

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