We´ll leave Dreams Las Mareas at 08:00 am or 03:30 pm, and meet at the beach. Once in the boat, we’ll go for a 30 minutes trip to the snorkeling spot and spend one-hour swimming around rock formations to find marine life. On the morning trip, we can make an additional 30 minutes stop at a secluded beach before returning to the hotel.
The Gulf of Santa Elena is known for having one of the richest marine habitats in the region and that makes it suitable for snorkeling tours. On our trip it’s possible to see astonishing views of the mountains and volcanoes, beautiful rock formations as well as a great variety of marine life like Angelfish, Barberfish, Butterflyfish, Sea urchins, Manta rays, and Starfish. seasonally whales can be found. Join us to show you some of the most beautiful wonders of the ocean. This is a guided trip and it is suitable for families, the elder, school trips or just relaxing while contemplating beautiful nature.
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On our snorkeling tour, we can see marine life like Angelfish, Barberfish, Butterflyfish, Sea urchins, Rays, Starfish, Parrotfish, Wrasses, Pufferfish, Moorish Idols, Dolphins, Seasonal Whales, Sea turtles, Eels, Trumpetfish, and more
The Gulf of Santa Elena is located in the North-West part of Costa Rica, in La Cruz, Guanacaste. It is known for fishing and tourism, because of its natural beauty.
We did 2 days of excursions with Yeudy during our stay at Dreams Las Mareas and both were fantastic. Great service, knowledgeable guides, excellent drivers (these are private tours). They… read more brought water and snacks (including some local biscuits and empanadas with Yeudy on day 2) which really was a nice touch.
The first tour we did was a combination of the waterfall and sloth tour and we had Oscar as our guide that day. He was very knowledgeable about nature and animals and gave us great information as we drove to the attractions. We saw sloths, posion dart frogs and many birds on the sloth tour (where there was a local guide to walk us through the park and help us take pictures). We were originally supposed to do the hanging bridges as well, but the kids were tired, so Oscar suggested we do a tour of Liberia and took us to a local ice cream shop before the drive home.
Based on the first great day, we booked the river cruise where we had Yeudy himself as our guide. Once again, the local knowledge was amazing and we learned a ton about Costa Rica during the drive. The river tour was great and we saw tons of animals, including 11 crocodiles. We also saw:
Howler monkeys
Black iguana
Green iguana
Basilisk (Jesus Christ lizard)
Barn owl
Little blue heron
Great blue heron
Green heron
Tiger heron
Kingfisher
Osprey (one with fish in talons)
Long nose bats
Green parrots
Scarlet macaw
Soldier birds
and various other birds.
After the tour we had a local lunch at the boat tour facility, which was probably the best food we had on the entire trip (and the food at Dreams is actually very good).
All in all, we would highly recommend doing tours with Yeudy when you are at Dreams or anywhere else near La Cruz.
We were lucky enough that he was available for the day whilst we were in Costa Rica for a private trip, which was bespoke based on where we wanted to visit (The Hanging Bridges, Sloth sanctuary and a souvenir shop in Liberia for gifts). Yeudy was flexible with stops; was so knowledgable about all of the floura & fourna, nature and wildlife whilst guiding us through the rain forest and sloth-spotting and always offering to pause to take family photos (or photos of wildlife through his binoculars!) for us as well as taking us to a lovely restaurant / butterfly farm for lunch.
I highly recommend Yeudy for any tours you may want to do in Costa Rica – nothing was too much trouble; he was lovey!! Thank you so much again Yeudy!!!