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During the plantation tour, a guide will help familiarize you with the extensive plantations of CATIE, and the significant contributions CATIE has made towards the research and education of tropical agriculture.
A guide will give you an informative tour through some of CATIE, where you can appreciate a variety of tropical plants from different parts of the world. The plantations of major relevance are: coffee, cocoa, pejibayes, tropical fruit and forest species.
A guide will take you on a stroll through CATIE special Botanical Garden where you will find the old kapok tree, towering stalks of bamboo, dripping orchids and bromeliads form the trees and many other colorful and fruiting plants.
Get excited rapelling four waterfalls, five zip lines, hanging bridge and much more
A family rafting adventure. Enjoy a family day, with Class II and III rapids, fun a safe for the all family.
This journey begins in the coffee plantations, here you will go into the coffee fields and learn about the methods and procedures of picking coffee cherries.
The Tropical Biking Tour take place at The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).
For this trip, riders are driven fifteen minutes outside of Turrialba to a top of the line stable located near the small, quaint town of Atirro.
During the plantation tour, a guide will help familiarize you with the extensive plantations of CATIE.
Ancient stone carvings of alligator and jaguar gods, ingeniously engineered Pre-Columbian aqueducts where water still flows, and paved roads receding into a lush rainforest – all of these things hint to Costa Rica’s mysterious past civilizations.
Finca La Florita is located in Santa Cruz, Turrialba. This is a very unique farming town. Here you will learn the process of producing cheese.
