You will ride across the Aguacate Mountains and on through beautiful plains until you begin the ascension through a secondary road to arrive at Monteverde.

Lodging: Hotel Finca Valverdes or similar

Monteverde, a 10.000ha (24.710 acres) private preserve, is always cold and hum thanks to the rain clouds coming from the Caribbean. Exuberant forest area with numerous rivers, 2500 different plants, trees covered with moss and ferns that protect the home of different exotic frogs, 100 mammals and the resplendent quetzal (one of the 400 species of birds to be found here). In the 1950’s, a group of farmers named “Quakers” founded Monteverde, which is today a charming little town.

Lodging: Hotel Finca Valverdes or similar
 

In the morning you will visit the Butterfly Garden where you can learn more about the entire lifecycle of the most endemic species of butterflies of Costa Rica. In the afternoon, transfer to San José.