Jaco Nature & Eco Tours

If you are looking for the signature eco tour from Jaco, a visit to the Carara National Park should top your list. Nowhere else in the country will you find as many of the brilliant Scarlett Macaws than in Jaco. Best of all, it is one of the least visited National Parks in Costa Rica, so no crowds. Just you, your guide and the wildlife within.

Exploring the Manuel Antonio Park is just not the same without the help of a binocular carrying, telescope toting naturalist guide. And our guides are local residents of Manuel Antonio, so they are the best resources for information and wildlife spotting you will find on this eco tour from Jaco. Aside from the park, this tour gives you free time to explore on your own and enjoy the beach for a few hours before bringing you back to Jaco.

Located next to Carara National Park, a destination known to birders around the globe as one of the few place on earth the endangered Scarlet Macaw still thrives, the picturesque rainforest of Villa Lapas named after these beautiful Macaws is THE place to be for over 400 species of birds in Costa Rica.

If you´ve been looking for a once in a lifetime activity in Costa Rica, look no further the the Crocodile Safari tour in Jaco. The quintessential jungle experience in Costa Rica is found just outside Jaco on the Tarcoles River. Teaming with wildlife, we will tour the Tarcoles mangrove forest by boat and sidle up to a river bank full of crocodiles.

Follow the flight of Costa Rica's endangered Scarlett Macaw from the rainforest canopy in the Carara National Park down the mangroves along the Tarcoles River on one of the best nature tours in Jaco. Our Carara National Park & Crocodile Safari Combo has everything a nature lover could ask for.

Paddling your own kayak through some of Costa Rica’s most lush mangroves sound like your kind of nature tour? Just South of Jaco you will find Quepos, home to the famous Damas Island Mangroves. Join your kayak guide as you glide silently past turtles and crocodiles, through mangrove tunnels, and spotting wildlife in the trees above.

If you really want to get up close with nature, there is not better place than one of Costa Rica’s famous mangroves. Just an hour south of Jaco, you will find the Damas Island Mangroves, and home to one of the best nature safaris in Manuel Antonio. Hop on board while the naturalist guide helps you spot monkeys, lizards, crocodiles and aquatic birds as you make your way through the mangroves ecosystem.