How Long?

First, tell us how long you can stay -- give us at least 8 days, if at all possible, so we can ride in three different areas.

Plan to end your stay with us after a full Sunday, when the local festivals, (Topés and Rodeos and Cabalgatas) occur. We can get you back to the international airport (either San Jose, SJO, or Liberia, LIR) in time for any flight on Monday, but plan a full day Sunday to enjoy our horses and traditional fiestas.

Tell us when you’ll be arriving -- within a few weeks, at least, so we know what weather you’ll likely encounter, and can plan a route for you that makes the most sense. Ideally, let us know your exact flight information so we can plan your stay without wasting a moment in San José.

Then tell us what your greatest passion with horses is -- bareback on a beach? Driving cattle? Roping? Riding to the top of an active volcano (you can see the steam coming from the vents near you!). Seeing the rainforest from the back of a horse, as the Conquerors saw it in 1492? Seeing the ocean from a mountaintop, and arriving at the ocean before the end of the day? Camping with your horse? Riding with the local people on daily chores in the fields, taking kids to school, harvesting plants, rounding up cattle? Staying at a hacienda, where all of a day’s chores are done on horseback or with oxcarts?

Tell us what else you’ve heard about Costa Rica that intrigues you -- hot springs and mud baths, white water rafting or scuba diving, canopy tour (from tree to tree on steel cables), deep sea fishing or naturalist floats, sea kayaking or caving, hiking cloud forests or across swinging bridges, canyoning (rappelling down a series of waterfalls), or birds and butterflies and mammals?

Let us know what style hotels you want -- elegant, rustic, wilderness camping, horse farm “home stay”? If you have definite sleeping requirements, we need to know before we design your travels. All our selections are very clean, bug free -- except the camping, which requires some accommodation to the others sharing your jungle floor -- and away from the noise and elevator music of resort-style travel. Most horse people are genuinely impressed with the quality of Costa Rican accommodations, so if you don't set your expectations to American Dude Ranches, you'll get along really well here.

We also need to know if you have any diet or medical restrictions, or any physical limitations we need to design around.

Once you have a vision of what your travels would be like, give us a call (see all the details on contacting us on its own page) and we can design your adventures together.