3 days - 2 nights
Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge Boat Tour
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#1 Greatest 3 days – 2 nights Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge Boat Tour is one of the most sold vacation packages. With this offer, you will be sure to receive a full experience Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge.
And also, and this is a major point, with Hotel de Campo we guarantee you will be visiting the Original Caño Negro. Yes! Unfortunately, there is a few tour operator that use the very well-known name of Caño Negro, but they take you just close by.
Hotel de Campo is the only hotel just in front of one of the major lagoons of Caño Negro wetland.

Welcome to Caño Negro refuge for a great 3 days 2 nights package. Let’s discover together this wonderful eco lover en birding hotspot that for sure will give you a fantastic experience Caño Negro wildlife refuge.

3 days - 2 nights Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge Boat Tour

3 days - 2 nights Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge Boat Tour, what does this offer includes?

If nature is the reason to travel to Costa Rica, but you also would like some spare time for yourself, this place and this package is a likable option to think about. This package includes:
2 nights at Hotel de Campo
2 dinners
2 breakfasts
1 tour of 3 hrs inside the National Refuge of Caño Negro

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With Hotel de Campo is easy to make a guaranteed reservation. Just contact us, tell us when would you visit Caño Negro, and your reservation is confirmed.

The EcoNature vacation packages do not offer private tours (though you can request an upgrade), but our tours are never packed with people. Maybe 2 o 3 more couples will be with you. Also, for a family reservation, the tour will be private.
In case you are a birdwatcher and or photographer, please have a look at our special packages, or request a customized one.

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When you choose Hotel de Campo Caño Negro and our boat tours and activities, you choose the right way to enjoy the experience Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge

With Hotel de Campo you have the real option to take advantage and do more than just a tired one-day tour in Caño Negro. This is because you will be in Caño Negro all day, and 2 nights. As you can check-in at the hotel at 1 pm, and the check-out is around 11 am, you will spend almost 3 days here. This is plenty of time to know the place. Hotel de Campo is immersed in a large tropical garden in front of the Refuge of Caño Negro. This is already an excellent place to spot birds, and very often see spider monkeys even if you are cooling yourself in the pool of the hotel.
The next day, soon in the morning without traveling for hours from La Fortuna, you will enjoy the real caño negro boat tour.

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Caño Negro wildlife refuge. What is Caño Negro?

Caño Negro is a Mixed Wildlife Refuge with an area of 10,171 hectares. It was created by Executive Decree No. 15120-MAG of January 20, 1984. Within the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), it belongs to the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area.

The hydrographic basin of the Frío River defines its landscape. It includes the Caño Negro lagoon (one of the largest in the country), a shallow freshwater basin with an area of 800 hectares, and a stagnant water outlet from the adjacent Frío River and its tributary, the Mónico River.

It constitutes one of the most diverse biological areas and one of vital importance for the maintenance of environmental quality in the north of the country.

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Caño Negro is a Mixed Wildlife Refuge with an area of 10,171 hectares. It was created by Executive Decree No. 15120-MAG of January 20, 1984. Within the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), it belongs to the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area.

The hydrographic basin of the Frío River defines its landscape. It includes the Caño Negro lagoon (one of the largest in the country), a shallow freshwater basin with an area of 800 hectares, and a stagnant water outlet from the adjacent Frío River and its tributary, the Mónico River.

It constitutes one of the most diverse biological areas and one of vital importance for the maintenance of environmental quality in the north of the country.

The area constitutes a habitat with a great variety of species of flora and fauna and migratory natural communities, many of them unique or in danger of extinction that makes it a site of international importance, since they constitute, together with the humid zones to the south of the Lake from Nicaragua, one of the most outstanding examples of the humid zone in Mesoamerica.

The refuge is home to many migratory waterfowl for part of the year, particularly in the Caño Negro lagoon, which is fed by the Frío River during the rainy season.

The forests, prairies, and swamps of the area give refuge to various species in danger of extinction such as jaguars, tapirs and ocelots, peccaries. Of course, you will have the chance to spot the 3 species of monkeys (the white-faced monkey, the howler or howler monkeys, and the spider monkeys), as well as sloth, anteater, green iguanas, basilisc.

During the dry season, the area is reduced to small lagoons, canals and marshes that are home to dozens of species of migratory birds of many species such as storks, jabiru, limpkin, sandpipers, yellowlegs, spoonbills, ibis, warblers, and more.

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Useful Tips for #1 Best 3 days - 2 nights
Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge Boat Tour

What to bring? BINOCULARS

Pleeease… Bring at least a decent binocular. Animals like to stay away from us. So at least a decent binocular is a must to spot any kind of animal. The minimum recommended size for a binocular is 8×36 or 8×40 is a very good decision. Today you can purchase a good binocular for $100. Try to avoid the cheapest binoculars, especially when you go for birdwatching.

Repellent and Mosquito “plaquitas”

Repellent and Mosquito “plaquitas” (in Google, just type “plaquitas mosquitos”.

YES, in Costa Rica, ALL around Costa Rica we do have mosquitoes. Try to buy the repellent in Costa Rica, is stronger.

Also, for your hotel room, we do have a special electric item, is an electric burner with an insert, in Spanish is “plaquitas”, that works perfectly, and you buy it in every supermarket.

Long pants and long sleeves

Long pants and long sleeves. I know is hot. But when we visit nature, the refuge, especially when we go for a walk, or during a night walk for frogs, long pants and long sleeves are a must.

Good pair of shoes, avoid flip-flops

Good pair of shoes. Please, avoid “chancletas”, flip-flops, any kind of flip-flop when you visit nature. Best shoes investment? By rubber boots. You can purchase this in any hardware store in Costa Rica, they are cheap.

Rubber boots are the best idea especially when you visit Costa Rica during the rainy season.

A decent camera

A decent camera. Even if taking pictures are not your thing, cellphone cameras are useless for nature pictures. They work fine for panoramic, but if you like to take a picture of a monkey, will be useless. If you like to travel light, look for a bridge camera. 

Cellphone local chip-card

Cellphone local chip-card. Purchase a pre-paid local line. They work fine in all of Costa Rica. So you will be sure to have internet for WhatsApp and other communication. Sometimes, when you travel to a hotel that is not close to a city, there is no cables company that offers the service. So hotels do not have good wifi service.

Birdwatching App

If you are a birdwatcher, is very useful to have a good cellphone, a good Bluetooth speaker, and the application of Merlin Bird ID. (for Android and IOS) Install this app at home, download the bird package for Costa Rica and Nicaragua. This is the best way to attract birds around. For example, when you have a moment in the garden of your hotel like we do at Hotel de Campo, use the sound. Call the birds.

If you need any other information, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach us.