Mundo Aventura

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Mundo Aventura Costa Rica Adventure Tour

Mundo Aventura has a full day tour that consists of a 10 cable canopy tour, hike to a waterfall, lunch, visit to the Maleku village, horseback ride, and butterfly and frog garden. You can also add repelling on for an extra cost. Supposedly they have the longest rappel in the area, right next to the waterfall. We did the full day tour without the rappel.

We started with the canopy tour which was really good for the adventurous client. It starts off slow and easy with 4 cables in the forest, it then gets really high and out in the open with extremely long cables. You are basically at bird’s eye level and can see all the lush forest below you plus La Fortuna waterfall on certain cables. However, b/c the cables are so long a lot of people got stuck. This could be really freaky for some clients as you basically have to dangle in the wind while waiting for one of the guides to come rescue you. If a client is really freaked out though, the guides can go with them and that usually makes them feel better and they don’t usually get stuck that way. I thought it was an extremely good canopy tour b/c of the view and it was actually an adventure tour!

We then had lunch and then did a hike down to the Fortuna waterfall. You can cross a small river and go to a lookout point at the base of the waterfall and take some pics. You can also go swimming in the lake/river that the waterfall flow into, but it’s really cold. The hike back up is a bit steep and strenuous, so it is not recommended for out of shape clients or people with knee problems.

Then we were taken in a tractor trailer (their form of transportation when it’s too far to walk) to go see the Maleku Village. This is basically a small replica village with 3 huts and one big hut where they do their ceromony for the clients and have all of their arts and crafts for sale. The Malekus are a small tribe that live about 45 km away, but rotate going to this replica village to try to bring in money for their real village. They dress in their “native” garb (which I’m not sure how authentic it is as it looks like the attire from any children’s book with the burlap colored clothing and feathers in the head, etc.). They then do a small presentation where they describe their arts and crafts and do a ceremony to the gods in their native lanugage. Then they let the clients loose on the arts and crafts. It’s cool to see this type of stuff in Costa Rica as there isn’t much of it. Plus it’s good for clients who want to see the “natives”…haaaa.

After that, there were horses waiting for us for our horse ride back to the main area. It was very nice and relaxing with nice views of the surrounding farm land. It took about 1/2 an hour. After that we saw the butterfly and frog gardens.

Overall, Mundo Aventura has a cool concept going on with their adventure park and it’s cool that a client can do a full day tour like that. They also offer some stuff (rappel, Maleku village) that other companies don’t.

Review by Sabrina and Rebecca