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    Group crossing a Mistico hanging bridge above the rainforest canopy

    WildlifeMistico Bridges + Bogarín + Papa's Place, La Fortuna

    Private Full-Day Wildlife Experience in La Fortuna

    A premium private full-day wildlife journey: Mistico Hanging Bridges, Bogarín Sloth Trail, traditional Costa Rican lunch and a Papa's Place twilight night tour — dedicated naturalist guide and private transport.

    • ~10–11 hours (two schedule options)
    • Mistico Bridges + Bogarín + Papa's Place, La Fortuna
    • Private departure
    • From $283 · all fees included

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    Trogon photographed at Bogarin Trail, La Fortuna Costa Rica
    Wildlife spotted at Papa's Place night tour in La Fortuna
    Rainforest canopy view from a Mistico hanging bridge in Arenal
    Duration
    ~10–11 hours (two schedule options)
    Start time
    6:30 AM / 9:45 AMSubject to availability
    Difficulty
    Moderate
    Group style
    Private departure
    Pickup
    Pickup can be coordinated
    Languages
    EN / ES
    Best for
    All travellers · Families · Photographers · Birders

    The experience

    Private Full-Day Wildlife Experience in La Fortuna

    A fully private, curated full-day wildlife immersion in La Fortuna, engineered to stack the region's highest-yield ecosystems into a single day and maximize sightings of sloths, birds, monkeys, reptiles, amphibians and nocturnal species. You travel in a private vehicle with a dedicated bilingual naturalist guide and a professional spotting scope, moving between three complementary habitats: Mistico Arenal Hanging Bridges (primary rainforest canopy walk with 16 bridges — ideal for toucans, motmots, sloths and eyelash pit vipers), the Bogarín Trail (world-famous for consistent close-up sloth encounters, plus rufous motmots, trogons, boat-billed herons and pygmy kingfishers), and after a traditional Costa Rican lunch, the twilight-into-night program at Papa's Place, one of the densest frog and reptile hotspots near the volcano. Two schedules are available: an early-bird split day (dawn birding + evening night walk with a rest in your hotel between blocks) or a continuous mid-morning to night option. Because the tour is 100% private, the pace is set by your group — no rushed shared-group schedules, plenty of time for photography, and full flexibility to linger at any subject. Included: All park entrances, guide, scope, lunch and drinking water. Transport is not included — we quote it separately by hotel and zone. The single best option for travelers with one day in La Fortuna who care about wildlife above everything else.