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2025

Sat 15 Nov - Wed 26 Nov 2025

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The challenge

  • Cross Costa Rica on foot and raft from the Caribbean to the Pacific
  • Trek through coffee plantations and dense tropical rainforest
  • Experience the amazing biodiversity and natural beauty of Costa Rica
  • Visit Irazu, Costa Rica's highest volcano (3,432m)
  • White water raft down the Pacuare River

Join for an incredible trekking and rafting challenge from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea, crossing Costa Rica on foot and raft!

The challenge includes an exhilerating two day rafting section of the Pacuare River, taking on rapids up to grade IV.  Take in views of the Caribbean lowlands with the rainforest slowly giving way to ubiquitous banana plantations.

You will trek through coffee plantations, indigenous communites and dense rainforests. Take on some challenging ascents reaching incredible viewpoints of the pacific ocean and verdant patches of jungle, with incredible views of the rainforest, experiencing first-hand the amazing biodiversity and natural beauty of Costa Rica.

As you make your way downstream the vivid colours of the exotic birds make the old growth forest flash with life, with many species of kingfishers and Toucans.

The challenge will test you physically but this is the most incredible way to experience Costa Rica - world-renowned for its abundance of rainforests, cloud forests, jungles and volcanoes.

The journey

Costa Rica Coast to Coast

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Challenge extensions

Costa Rica

Tortuguero National Park - £710.00

Tortuguero was declared a National Park on Sept. 24, 1970, and its boundaries were extended three times (1980, 1995 and 1998). Its area has increased from 64,701 hectares to 76,937. Of that area, 50,284 hectares are marine territory, and 26,653 are on land. Of the land area, 99% is used for absolute protection of resources, and 1% is used for visitation facilities. The marine area is 100% designated for absolute conservation. 

Tortuguero National Park (TNP) is located in north-eastern Costa Rica and is one of the country’s main tourist icons, internationally recognized for its protection of the largest green turtle nesting beach in the Western Hemisphere.

Far-removed from the city and composed of an extensive network of rivers and streams, access is possible only on small boats. Tortuguero National Park is a place like no other, where small communities around the protected area – such as Barra del Tortuguero and San Francisco – still retain their traditions and move around on bicycles as the only means of transportation. All of this makes a trip to Tortuguero a genuine encounter with Caribbean culture.

The TNP also is a paradise for research and ecotourism, as the area’s ecosystems are so complex and diverse that visitors can expect anything during tours, from complete tranquillity to discovering typical species of flora and fauna that are characteristic to the Costa Rican Caribbean.

  • Registration fee £100.00
  • Balance £610.00
  • Single room £175.00

Tortuguero National Park - £710.00

Costa Rica

Tortuguero was declared a National Park on Sept. 24, 1970, and its boundaries were extended three times (1980, 1995 and 1998). Its area has increased from 64,701 hectares to 76,937. Of that area, 50,284 hectares are marine territory, and 26,653 are on land. Of the land area, 99% is used for absolute protection of resources, and 1% is used for visitation facilities. The marine area is 100% designated for absolute conservation. 

Tortuguero National Park (TNP) is located in north-eastern Costa Rica and is one of the country’s main tourist icons, internationally recognized for its protection of the largest green turtle nesting beach in the Western Hemisphere.

Far-removed from the city and composed of an extensive network of rivers and streams, access is possible only on small boats. Tortuguero National Park is a place like no other, where small communities around the protected area – such as Barra del Tortuguero and San Francisco – still retain their traditions and move around on bicycles as the only means of transportation. All of this makes a trip to Tortuguero a genuine encounter with Caribbean culture.

The TNP also is a paradise for research and ecotourism, as the area’s ecosystems are so complex and diverse that visitors can expect anything during tours, from complete tranquillity to discovering typical species of flora and fauna that are characteristic to the Costa Rican Caribbean.

  • Registration fee £100.00
  • Balance £610.00
  • Single room £175.00

* Please note that you can add extensions when going through our booking process.

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