Wonderful World of the Sloth Tour...

 This highly recommended tour offers a delightful introduction to the wonderful world of the sloth. It includes a one-hour, guided, canoe ride through the bayous of the Estrella River Delta where, if you watch carefully, you may see wild sloths as well as other inhabitants of the rainforest. Next stop is the Learning Center where you will view a short video about the sloth and meet some of our resident adult sloths. We’ve saved the best for last...baby sloths!  We will introduce you to these tiny orphans and tell you their stories. Of course, Buttercup, the Grande Dame of the Sanctuary, is waiting patiently and slowthfully for her turn to meet you, as well.

A browse through our gift shop (proceeds also support the sanctuary) brings our Sloth Sanctuary Tour to an end. Additionally, you can take an optional, self-guided walk through our two well-maintained jungle trails.                                                                          

Open to the public, gates open at 7am, last tour begins at 2:30pm. Tours run continually throughout operating hours, seven days a week. A reservation is not needed.

Duration of organized tour (without optional forest walk) approx. 2 ½ hours

Cost of tour $25 per person

(Children under 4 years – free: 5 - 11 years of age - $15, 12 and up - $25

The order of the tour could change due to circumstances beyond our control.

How To Get Here

HOW TO GET HERE FROM SAN JOSE

If you rent a car, ask your car rental agent to highlight the route from the agency office through San Jose to Highway 32 to the Caribbean (Limon). If you become hopelessly lost - and getting out of San Jose can be a real challenge!! - ask a taxi driver to guide you to the entrance to Highway 32 and offer him $5. Once you are on the highway, follow the big green and white road signs to Limon, Cahuita, Pto. Viejo, Sixaola, etc.  Aviarios is approximately 31 kilometers south of Limon. Driving time is approximately 3 hours without stops. Just before our gate you will see two bus stops, one on either side of the road, with SLOTH CROSSING signs; a beautiful portrait of Buttercup announces your arrival to the SLOTH SANCTUARY and AVIARIOS DEL CARIBE HOTEL on the left hand side of the road. The metal gate is light green.

Another option and one we highly recommend if you don’t want to rent a car is to travel by Interbus! You must make reservations with them prior to your trip in order to reserve space.  www.interbusonline.com  Interbus recognizes Aviarios del Caribe and Sloth Sanctuary as destinations and pick-up points.

If you prefer to travel by our public bus system, you must first get to the bus station...take a taxi to “El Gran Terminal Del Caribe”, next to “El Complejo Kamakiri”. Every taxi driver knows it. There are two bus stations for the Limon and Caribbean coast area, so you must be sure to get to the right one! Buy a ticket to ‘Cahuita’ at the ‘Sixaola’ ticket window inside the station. The direct bus leaves San Jose at 6am, 10am, 1:30pm and 3:30pm (but always phone first as schedules may change) with a 15 minute rest stop just before Limon. You will be let off at Aviarios del Caribe ~ Sloth Sanctuary if you advise your driver as you board the bus, and again as you re-board after the rest stop in Limon. If you come to a two-lane iron-girdered bridge that spans the Rio Estrella you have gone one kilometer too far. You will have to stop the bus and walk back or continue to Cahuita and catch another bus back to the sanctuary or hire a taxi!!!  So stay watchful!

HOW TO GET HERE FROM CAHUITA, PUERTO VIEJO AND POINTS SOUTH

Driving north we are one kilometer north of the Estrella River Bridge (the only two-lane iron-girdered overhead bridge) on the right hand side. From Puerto Viejo – 35 kilometers; from Cahuita – 11 kilometers