HOW to book:

Explore offers a nine-day Highlights of Costa Rica trip which costs from £1,339 per person. This includes return flights from the UK, eight nights’ hotel accommodation on a bed and breakfast basis, transport and the services of an

Explore Leader (explore.co.uk, 01252 884 723).

Optional excursions which customers would have to pay for locally are:

Hot springs – $34 or $56 with dinner

White water rafting - $89

Zip wiring - $71

Night walk - $30

Catamaran - $67