What a glorious day! We were offered fruit & juice before our river cruise. Once aboard, our boat captain took us close to crocodiles, iguanas, osprey, monkeys, and herons. Up close and personal with the wildlife. Back to the historical hacienda for a step back in time to see how the sugar cane was juiced, how coffee was made, tortillas rolled out and a delicious pre-lunch snack. We were served a fabulous buffet lunch on the breezy deck. To cap off our time, we enjoyed the Sabandi Rum distillery tour, right there on the Hacienda grounds. Roberto is knowledgeable, friendly and engaging. The entire rum process is explained with lots of time for questions. While rum tasting, everyone gets to choose their own ingredients to infuse into their glass of rum. For $25 you get to infuse a bottle of your own rum to take home. A magical day!

We recently took the boat tour on the Tempisque River. There were four of us in our group and we were lucky enough to have our own boat. Our guides (one guide and one guide-in-training) were animated and knowledgeable. Our boat captain was amazing at spotting birds and other creatures. With temperatures in the low 90s, we appreciated the cooling breezes of the river. The lunch that we were served was delicious and quite filling. I highly recommend this tour.

We did the boat tour and cultural tasting and it was a fantastic day. We saw so many crocodiles, birds, monkeys, lizards, etc. while on the boat tour. After the boat tour, we had a buffet lunch which was delicious. We then went to the cultural tasting although we had several kids with us (ages 11-18) who didn't want to do the cultural piece of the day so we had an abbreviated tour and tasting. We made tortillas which was fun, had cornbread, coffee and we sang. It was a beautiful place to spend the day, the staff were wonderful and we were happy we went.