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From steep creeks to surf in the Ocean
Itinerary
1 Day.
Arrival to Costa Rica, Hotel Mi Tierra. Dinner, short briefing about the country and the trip. Pool session to adjust kayaks and Eskimo roll.
2 Day.
Off to Sarapiqui, on the Caribbean slopes of the country. The river has two well defined sections, one class 2 and one class 3, together they have 11 miles of fun. The first day we do a pool session and a class 2 descent to warm up and work on technique.
3 Day
Today is a full river day, we put up at La Virgen to run the class 3 section.
4 Day
Time to move on, we go to Turrialba, Pacuare River, for a two day trip into the jungle. The river is one of the most beautiful rivers we have in the country, with 32 miles of class 3 and 4, and a primary forest on both sides. We travel from Sarapiqui to the new put in in 3X, the first section for the trip is a nice class 3 with big volume, the perfect warm up. We finish the day at the camping site.
5 Day
Great breakfast in the jungle, only us and the river, we run today the class 4 rapids, nice and safe, lots of scouting, the section has two gorges, with steep high walls on the sides, lots of room to run easy or narrow lines.
6 Day
Now that we all are in good shape, we go run the Sucio River, a nice class 3 and 4 section of big water, we go back to Hotel Mi Tierra Tonight.
7 Day
Time to head down to the beach, to the Pacific side of Costa Rica, today we can relax at the beach, walk or surf kayak the nice waves of Hermosa beach, we stay there for the night.
8 Day
Early breakfast and off to Manuel Antonia area, Naranjo River, class 3, a different type of river, a different type of jungle, we finish by the beach again.
9 Day
Savegre River, another day of fun, class 3 and 4, another beach day.
10 Day
Beach morning, after lunch back to Hotel Mi Tierra, last supper together.
11 Day
Breakfast, shuttles to the airport.
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