COSTA RICA DIVE & EXCURSIONS
September 1 - 8 2012

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

• Includes:
  
  7 night lodging Villas Sol
  All rooms have a beautiful ocean view
  Hotel taxes
  All meals, snacks, beverages, and local alcoholic beverages
  Swim up bar pool
  Tax and service
  5 days of 2 morning dives boat dives
  Airport transfers from LIR to and from Costa Rica resort
  1 Full day combo adventure tour with private transportation
  (2 activities a.m. tour and afternoon tour.
  
  
• Tour Details:
  
  
  
  
  
  White water tubing (Min age 10)
  Canopy Tour with surprise features. (Min age 4)

After your rafting adventure, you will return to the ranch's dining room where a delicious buffet and local fruit beverage awaits. Beer, sodas, and alcoholic beverages are available, but not included.

After lunch, head to the natural sauna and open your pores. When you are done, head to the mud vats and layer on some warm, volcanic mud. Take some photos -- these are sure to be ones you won't want to miss getting.

When the mud has dried thoroughly you can rinse off in the showers before relaxing in the thermal pools - one hot, one warm, and one cold. CD with photos of your tour activities and bonus wildlife shots are available at the end of the tour ($20). After you change into your street clothes, you will be driven back to your Beach Hotel.

Not included: Departure tax of $26.00 pp, $15.00 marine park fee (for divers),
Tips for dive boat, tour operator and other personal and dive items.

Optional Dive: Bat Islands (Advanced Certification) $65.00

Diving Bat Islands are advanced dives with Bull Sharks, Black Tips and Tigers.The boats do not anchor at the dive sites at the Bats. Once at the bottom, a depth of approximately 50 feet, we hover for up to 15 minutes and view the sharks. Divers continue along the “wall” as the bottom gives way to a depth of 130 to 140 feet. The maximum depth here is about 100 feet. Although the dive itself is not difficult, the entries and exits can be tricky. Bat Islands is great diving with pristine and you can also expect to see bridges, caverns, coral and sponges and of course lots and lots of fish! (Minimum 6 divers) pre-book only.

Optional Dive: Catalina Islands $45.00
The Catalina Islands are similar in that there is no boat anchorage at some of the islets and one must descend immediately and away from the rocks. The Catalinas are famous for Rays; Manta Rays, Bat Rays, Mobley, Spotted, Bullseye and Stingrays abound. Occasionally, we find ourselves lost in huge migratory schools of various species of rays. Sometimes, a Tiger shark is spotted. White tips are not uncommon. (Minimum 6 divers) pre-book only.