Costa Rica Horseback Riding

Horseback tours are a great way to experience the best of the adventure thrills while you are on a vacation. Such adventures take you to the other side of exciting tours and leave you with breathless with travel memories.

While in Costa Rica, these tours encourage you to come back here for more. So get into this land of pleasure and enjoy the Costa Rica pleasures of horseback riding. Ride through a rainforest and feel the mist touch your skin, and then go on those rafting adventures and enjoy crossing the creeks and the innumerable streams that dot the region. Soak in the pleasures of the hot springs and feel the best come into your travel experiences. Horseback rides give you the most cherishable parts of a travel into such lands. Tours are arranged for both individual and groups and it is fun to enjoy it while you are traveling in groups. Some of the best Costa Rica locations for horseback riding include Manuel Antonio, Monteverde, Rincon de La Vieja, and Arenal.

The Don Tobias Horse Tour

Take this adventurous tour and enjoy the horseback ride which gives you a view of the forests and the beautiful fields which give you ideal views of the entire region of the Arenal Volcano. This is a three hour ride which takes you though the beautiful locales of the secondary and primary forest and also the cattle fields and takes you up the mountain and then gives you the ultimate views of the beautiful lagoon here which is where you can see horses refreshing themselves. It is a wonderful sight to see these horses getting rejuvenated and as you get refreshed too, you would want more in this lovely fascinating tour.

Enjoy the sight of the magnificent beauty of the Arenal Volcano and the surroundings surrounding it. This trail passes through the private regions which were used by Don Tobias who was actually a great horse breeder in the Arenal Area. Today the Don Tobias stables are there to take care of the horses and these stables are another enchanting attraction in this adventure tour.

Care has to be taken however that children below six years of age are not allowed to ride the horses themselves, as supervision is needed. While  you go horseback riding here make sure you have a pair of long pants, t-shirts, binoculars , sun lotion , camera and good mosquito repellents. There would be a local guide who would guide you around and there are sufficient arrangements for water and also transportation to and from the local hotels.

Monteverde Horse back riding

Monteverde is a green region in this part of Costa Rica. Till recently horseback was the main transport of this region. Today, the horseback riding is a part of the tourism here and it is not allowed in the reserves but there are many horseback tours which are found on the private trails and the other lands which give you an opportunity to appreciate the beauty around and seep in the tranquility of the rural side of Costa Rica. Thus you get to enjoy a world outside Costa Rica and you would surely love to come back here for more.

Visitors who come here are given the rare chance and opportunity of enjoying the private reserve on the horseback and you would get to see the Gulf of Nicoya in the distance and also the islands of the Pacific. Enjoy the beauty of the sugarcane and coffee plantations and enjoy the wildlife views of the green parrots, the toucans, the bellbirds, the blue crowded motmots, and the emerald toucanets besides the white faced monkeys.

Horseback riding is thus a greatly attractive tour specialty in Costa Rica.  Enjoy these thrilling experiences and feel the travel bliss.