Palo Verde Boat Tours
Parks & Wildlife · Guanacaste · Nature tours
Family-run boat safari on the Tempisque river next to Palo Verde National Park, known for crocodiles, monkeys and wading birds. Tours leave from the village of Ortega.
Contact & directions
- Website: https://paloverdeboattours.com/
- Phone: +506 8841-8943
- Location: 10.360954, -85.460351 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Guaitil Pottery VillageLocal shop · FreeA village where families still make Chorotega-style pottery by hand — coiled, burnished with stones, painted with natural clay pigments and fired in wood kilns — and sell it from their front porches.
- Ecomuseo de la Cerámica Chorotega (San Vicente)Landmark · FreeA community museum in San Vicente, the potters' village just past Guaitil, telling the story of Chorotega ceramics - old pieces like the comal for tortillas and the tinaja for chicha.
- Mirador La Roca (Palo Verde)Viewpoint · about $12 · hidden gemA limestone outcrop with steel stairs at the end of a short trail in Palo Verde National Park: from the top you look over the lagoon, the Tempisque River and, on clear days, the Gulf of Nicoya.
- Parque Nacional Palo VerdeParkPalo Verde covers about 18,400 ha of the Tempisque River valley, some 30 km west of Cañas.
- Humedal Lacustrino Río CañasNature spotA protected wetland created in 1994, managed by the Tempisque Conservation Area.
- Plaza Los Mangos (Santa Cruz)Park · FreeThe square also known as Plaza López, in Costa Rica's 'folklore city', where the wooden bullring and grandstands go up every January for the Fiestas de Santa Cruz in honor of the Santo Cristo de Esquipulas.
Sources: https://paloverdeboattours.com/