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7-Day Costa Rica
Jungle Expedition
Your journey begins on a river, passing mangrove roots before the boat reaches the Pacific. Ahead lies a remote coastal village, two nights in Corcovado’s rainforest, river canyons and an island surrounded by marine life.
Over seven days, you’ll learn to read tracks in wet earth, wait for wildlife beside a forest river, climb through a waterfall canyon and search beneath the Pacific’s surface. Sukia’s guides connect each part of the journey, from your first briefing in Drake Bay to the final wildlife search through Sierpe’s mangroves.
- 7 days · 6 nights
- Jungle, canyons & ocean
From US$975 per person
Final price depends on your lodging choice.
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What travelers take home from Osa
Stories from travelers who explored the jungle, rivers and wild coast with Sukia.
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Included in your expedition
What's included in your
7-day Osa expedition
From Corcovado's forest to Caño Island's waters, your guided experiences and park access are organised by Sukia.
7 days · 6 nightsFromUS$975per personFinal price depends on your selected option.
Two nights in the forest
Stay as the day visitors leave and the forest changes around you. Both expedition nights are included in the base price.
- 1 night at Sirena
- 1 night at Camp Site San Pedrillo
- Add the other 4 nights in Drake Bay with a lodging option, or arrange them yourself
Meals for the journey
Meals during your Corcovado expedition are included in the base price. Standard and Premium include the following meal plan across the week. Deluxe adds full board during your Sukia Kin stay:
6Breakfasts5Lunches3Dinners
- Day 1: dinner
- Days 2 & 3: breakfast, lunch & dinner
- Days 4–6: breakfast & lunch
- Day 7: breakfast
Park tickets, permits & access
Spend your time exploring. We arrange entry to the protected areas on your itinerary.
- Corcovado National Park: Sirena & San Pedrillo
- Tamandua Biological Reserve
- Caño Island
Your naturalist guide
Slow down, listen and look closer with a guide who helps you discover the forest's wildlife and smaller details.
- Guided wildlife and nature experiences
- Spotting scope and binoculars for wildlife observation
Jungle, river & ocean adventures
Follow the journey from rainforest trails and hidden waterfalls to the Pacific and the mangroves.
- Corcovado expedition through Sirena & San Pedrillo
- Canyoning in Tamandua
- Night walk in the jungle
- Snorkeling at Caño Island
- Sierpe mangrove tour
Boat transport along the way
Travel by boat for the excursions on your itinerary, with the captain and crew taking care of the crossing.
- Boat trips for your included excursions
- Captain and boat crew
- Arrival and departure arrangements confirmed for your chosen option
Also included✓ Insurance
Park availability matters.Corcovado limits day visits and overnight stays. Your reservation depends on available permits.
A reservation request, then confirmation.Send your dates and preferred accommodation through our booking page. We check permits and lodging with you before approval and payment. If your preferred stay is unavailable, we discuss an alternative before you commit.
Choose your dates and tell us how you would like to stay. We will confirm your expedition arrangements.
Check dates & optionsDay by day · seven chapters
Seven days inside another world.
Follow the river to Drake Bay, spend two nights on the Corcovado expedition, then explore a waterfall canyon and the Pacific. Here is what you’ll do, day by day.
Chapter I · Day 1
Follow the river to the edge of the rainforest
Sierpe → Drake Bay · Expedition briefing & guided night walk
If you arrive through Sierpe, you board a boat and leave the road behind. The river winds between mangrove forests, where crocodiles can lie almost motionless along the banks and birds move between tangled roots. Eventually, the channels open onto the Pacific. We follow the coast to Drake Bay, a small village surrounded by rainforest. Arriving by air instead? We coordinate your Drake Bay arrival before the trip.
After settling into your accommodation, you meet the Sukia team for an expedition briefing. We explain the route, check what you’ll carry and talk through the walking, overnight stays and conditions ahead. You’ll have time to ask questions and tell us what you hope to experience.
After dark, we enter the forest for your first guided walk. Your torch picks out wet leaves, insects and the eyeshine of animals active at night. The guide stops. You stop too—and begin learning how much there is to notice.
Night in Drake Bay · your selected accommodation or your own arrangement
Chapter II · Day 2
Enter Corcovado and learn to read the forest
Drake Bay → Sirena · Corcovado National Park
Breakfast is around 5 a.m. By approximately 6 a.m., we’re boarding a boat and following the Pacific coastline toward Corcovado National Park. We arrive at Sirena, a ranger and biological station with a network of trails through wildlife-rich forest. After leaving our overnight bags, we begin exploring on foot.
Finding animals here takes attention. The forest has layers: leaf litter, fallen trunks, understory and a canopy high above your head. Your guide reads the clues connecting them—a fresh footprint, fallen fruit, a warning call or movement in a particular tree. You begin working like a detective. Which trees are fruiting? What passed along this muddy trail? Why has the guide stopped here?
Sometimes we walk. Sometimes we remain still and watch a patch of forest that initially appears empty. We search for tapirs, monkeys, birds and smaller animals, learning where to look and when to wait. Between walks, we return to the station for meals and rest. Tonight, you sleep in Sirena’s shared bunks, with the sounds of the forest around you.
Corcovado expedition night 1 · shared bunks at Sirena
Chapter III · Day 3
Watch the river wake, then travel deeper
Sirena → San Pedrillo · Dawn wildlife search & rugged forest trails
We wake before dawn. As the first light arrives, we head toward the river and find a place to watch from the bank. This is a meeting point between forest, fresh water and coast. We look for birds beginning to feed, crocodiles near the water and tapirs moving through the riverside habitat. For a while, we stay quiet and let the scene develop.
Back at the station, breakfast is followed by another forest walk. On Sirena’s flatter trails, we explore the relationships that make this ecosystem work: animals carrying seeds, insects breaking down fallen wood and fruiting trees drawing different species into the same small area.
After lunch, we board another boat and continue along the coast to San Pedrillo, another sector of Corcovado. The terrain changes. Trails become steeper and more uneven. Large roots cross the ground; hills, rivers and waterfalls interrupt the forest. We follow the permitted route into this rugged landscape, stopping to examine tracks, listen and explore freshwater surroundings. By evening, we reach Camp Site San Pedrillo. You eat, organise your gear and settle in for a second forest night.
Corcovado expedition night 2 · Camp Site San Pedrillo
Chapter IV · Day 4
Cross the old forest and share a local table
San Pedrillo → Los Planes → Doña Ana’s table → Drake Bay
The morning begins with the forest already making itself heard around camp. We continue toward Los Planes, walking beneath enormous trees and negotiating roots, slopes and uneven ground. Your attention moves between the trail at your feet and the forest around you. A broken branch or a print in the mud can reveal the passage of an animal that remains out of sight.
This is a physical morning. We take the time needed to move through the terrain, investigate the forest’s smaller details and appreciate the scale of the trees above us. Eventually, the route brings us to Doña Ana’s home for lunch. After the forest nights, you sit down to Costa Rican home cooking and a conversation about life in this rural community.
Later, we return to Drake Bay. There is time to shower, unpack and rest before the next part of the expedition.
Return to your Drake Bay accommodation · rest after the forest nights
Chapter V · Day 5
Follow the river through Sukia’s waterfall canyon
Tamandua · River canyon, natural pools & guided rope descents
This route began during our own jungle navigation and survival training. Following the river led our team into an exceptionally wet forest, thick with broad leaves, and a succession of natural pools and waterfalls. That exploration revealed thirteen pools and roughly seven to eight waterfalls along the river system. It became one of Sukia’s signature adventures.
We start early and hike into the forest. As we approach the river, the sound of falling water grows louder. From here, the river shapes our progress. We scramble over rock, swim through natural pools and use ropes where the route calls for controlled descents. Your guides assess the water and choose the appropriate lines through each section. You use your hands as much as your feet, moving between enclosed passages, waterfalls and openings in the canopy.
There are moments to pause in the cool water and look up at the forest surrounding the canyon. The route brings us to a remote camp, where a 4×4 collects us. The journey back follows rough forest tracks and river crossings toward Drake Bay.
Canyoning day · return to your Drake Bay accommodation
Chapter VI · Day 6
Search beneath the Pacific
Caño Island · Two guided snorkels & San Josecito beach
We leave early by boat for Isla del Caño, an island off the Osa coast with both natural and cultural history. Pre-Columbian stone spheres have been found there, evidence of the people who reached this island long before today’s visitors. During the crossing, we watch for dolphins and, in season, whales.
Around the island, your marine guide chooses snorkeling sites according to conditions. We enter the water for two guided sessions, searching around rocks and reef formations for turtles, rays, reef sharks and schools of tropical fish. The guide helps you notice what is easily missed: an animal resting against the seabed, movement beneath a rock or a shape passing beyond the first school of fish.
Afterward, we continue to San Josecito beach for lunch and time on shore. Watch the trees for scarlet macaws and white-faced capuchins, or the ground near the forest edge for coatis. You can rest on the sand and, when conditions allow, explore the water again before we return to Drake Bay.
Ocean day · return to your Drake Bay accommodation
Chapter VII · Day 7
A final wildlife search through the mangroves
Drake Bay → Sierpe · Guided mangrove wildlife search
On the way back toward Sierpe, we enter another ecosystem. The boat slows beside mangrove roots. In narrow channels, the forest grows close to the water and animals can disappear against bark, branches and reflections. Our guides know a network of seven navigation channels and choose the route according to tides and conditions. We search the banks, canopy and overhanging vegetation for sloths, monkeys, boas, crocodiles and caimans.
Kingfishers may flash across the bow. A toucan’s call draws your attention upward. Bats can be difficult to distinguish from the trunks where they rest; a sleeping owl may remain invisible until the guide shows you exactly where to look. You’ve spent the week practising this kind of attention. Now you help search.
The boat carries us back to Sierpe, where the expedition ends—with forest mud washed from your boots, salt dried on your bag and a growing list of things you learned to see.
Mangrove expedition · journey ends in Sierpe
This is the planned route. Weather, sea and river conditions, park access and your guide's assessment may change the sequence or activities. Wildlife sightings and clear skies cannot be guaranteed. Swimming takes place only where permitted and when your guide considers conditions suitable.
Choose how you recover between expeditions
Your stay, your way
The same seven-day expedition, with four ways to arrange your nights in Drake Bay. Choose your preferred stay when you send your request; we confirm availability with you before payment.
Every option includes the two Corcovado expedition nights
One night in Sirena’s shared bunks and one night at Camp Site San Pedrillo, with expedition meals. These forest stays are the same for Deluxe, Premium, Shared and No accommodation. Your Drake Bay accommodation applies to nights 1, 4, 5 and 6.
Deluxe · Sukia Kin · full board
An ocean-view dome to recover in
Return from the forest to a private dome at Sukia Kin Glamping & Retreats, created by the team behind your expedition.
- 4 Sukia Kin nights + 2 Corcovado expedition nights
- Ocean-view dome with A/C and a private bathroom
- Full board during your Kin stay, plus expedition meals
- Daily excursion transfers and your agreed Sierpe or Drake Bay arrival route included
Premium · private partner accommodation
Your own private room
A private room at a Sukia partner property in Drake Bay for the nights between the forest, canyon and ocean chapters.
- 4 nights in a private partner room + 2 expedition nights
- Week’s meal plan: 6 breakfasts, 5 lunches & 3 dinners
- All listed expedition activities, guides and park access
- Three dinners are not included; room features confirmed with the property before payment
Shared · family-owned Sukia Hostel
A shared dorm and a local welcome
Stay in a shared dorm at our family-owned hostel in Drake Bay, returning to the same local base between expedition days.
- 4 shared-dorm nights + 2 expedition nights
- Week’s meal plan: 6 breakfasts, 5 lunches & 3 dinners
- All listed expedition activities, guides and park access
- Three dinners are not included
No accommodation · arrange your own base
Join the expedition, choose your own stay
Already have somewhere to stay in Drake Bay? Join the full expedition and arrange those four base nights yourself.
- Both Corcovado expedition nights remain included
- Meals during the Corcovado expedition included
- All listed guided activities and park access included
- Your 4 Drake Bay nights and meals outside the expedition inclusions are separate
While you are in Corcovado: we coordinate luggage storage so you can travel with the gear needed for the two forest nights. Return to your selected Drake Bay accommodation after the forest crossing.
One complete package price: choose your dates, group size and accommodation to see the total in the booking request. We confirm lodging, park permits and arrival arrangements with you before approval and payment.
Before you go
Pickup/Dropoff
Before you go
Please note
Pickup in Sierpe at 11:30 am of the first day or in Drake´s airport.
Not recommended for women on pregnancy period, children under 7 years old, people with special physical conditions and elders over 65 years old.
Corcovado national park has a limit of people that can spend the night or hike during the day, please book ahead of time to save you a space.
What do I need to bring?
- Hiking shoes
- Water shoes
- Flash light
- Raincoat
- Sunscreen
- Mosquito repellent
- Swimwear
- Jacket
- 50 lb backpack
- Non-disposable plastic bottle (glass or aluminum)
Pickup/Dropoff
Before you step into the jungle
Your seven-day expedition: the trails, the nights and the practical details, made clear.
How is the seven-day expedition different?
You spend three days on the Corcovado route, with one night at Sirena and one at Camp Site San Pedrillo. The week also includes Tamandua canyoning, Caño Island snorkeling, a guided night walk and Sierpe's mangroves.
It is one connected journey, with time to stay in the forest after the day visitors leave. Explore the seven chapters.
How demanding is the route?
Expect several hours on foot, heat, humidity, mud, roots and uneven ground. Sirena's wildlife walks are slower; the San Pedrillo and Los Planes sections are more demanding. Canyoning involves wet, uneven terrain.
Tell us about your hiking experience, comfort in water and any mobility concerns. For families, share the children's ages and experience. Our team will help confirm whether this route is a good fit before you book.
Are all six nights included?
Every option includes two expedition nights: one at Sirena and one at Camp Site San Pedrillo. These are simple, shared forest stays, not private hotel rooms.
Deluxe adds four ocean-view dome nights at Sukia Kin with full board. Premium adds four nights in a private partner room; Shared adds a dorm at our family-owned Sukia Hostel. With No accommodation, you arrange the four Drake Bay nights yourself. Every choice retains the same two shared forest nights. Compare accommodation options.
Which meals are included?
Basic includes meals during the Corcovado expedition. With Standard or Premium, the week's plan includes 6 breakfasts, 5 lunches and 3 dinners.
For Standard and Premium: Day 1 dinner; days 2–3 breakfast, lunch and dinner; days 4–6 breakfast and lunch; day 7 breakfast. Dinner on days 4, 5 and 6 is separate. Deluxe includes full board during your Sukia Kin stay, plus the meals on the Corcovado expedition.
Where do we meet, and where does the trip finish?
Arrival can be arranged through Sierpe Dock or Drake Bay Airport. If you are already in Drake Bay, tell us where you are staying. Deluxe, Premium and Shared include the agreed arrival and departure arrangements through those points; Deluxe also includes the daily Kin–excursion transfers.
The planned day-seven route finishes in Sierpe after the mangrove tour. Confirm your meeting point, timing and onward connection with our team before buying transport. Transfers to other destinations require a separate quote.
Do I need to be confident in the water?
The itinerary includes snorkeling at Caño Island and moving through a river canyon in Tamandua. Tell us before booking if you cannot swim, are nervous in open water or have concerns about wet terrain.
Our team needs to confirm suitability and the arrangements for your group. Swimming takes place only where permitted and when your guide considers conditions suitable; please do not assume every pool or river is safe to enter.
What should I pack for the forest nights?
Bring a manageable trail backpack, shoes with good grip, quick-drying clothes, rain protection, a refillable water bottle, a headlamp and swimwear. Protect spare clothes and electronics from rain and spray.
Confirm with us what you need to carry and where your larger bag can stay while you are in Corcovado. Ask about your flight's baggage allowance separately; do not plan to bring a suitcase along the forest trails.
What if it rains or the route changes?
Rain is part of the rainforest experience. Heavy rain, river levels, sea conditions and park restrictions can change the route, timing or an activity.
Follow your guide's assessment and confirm seasonal access for your dates. The itinerary is the planned journey, not a guarantee that every stop will operate in all conditions. Ask how any change would affect your reservation.
Will we definitely see particular animals?
No wild animal sighting is guaranteed. More time in the forest gives you more opportunities to observe, but no promise of a tapir, jaguar, turtle or any other species.
Your guide helps you notice sounds, tracks and movement while keeping a respectful distance. The forest, rivers and ocean are the experience—not a fixed wildlife checklist.
What about group size, language and dietary needs?
Corcovado outings generally have up to 6 guests on overnights and 8 on day trips. Group arrangements can differ for other activities. Ask us to confirm your departure's group size and guiding language.
Tell us about allergies and dietary requirements before booking. We will check what each kitchen can provide; not every request can be accommodated in remote locations.
How do I confirm dates, permits and the final price?
Send your dates, number of travelers and preferred lodging option through our booking page. Corcovado permits, overnight spaces and accommodation must be checked for your dates.
Your booking starts as a reservation request. We check park permits and lodging before approval and payment. If your preferred accommodation is unavailable, we discuss a partner alternative with you first. Review the confirmed itinerary, inclusions, complete package price and payment conditions before paying.
What if I need to cancel or change my dates?
Read our Terms and Conditions and ask our team to confirm the cancellation and date-change conditions for your reservation in writing before paying.
Deposits, park permits and accommodation may have non-refundable conditions. A new date also depends on available permits and rooms; contact us before changing your travel arrangements.
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