Tripod-mounted spotting scopes, which is the difference between a rumour and a photograph.
Coffee, cacao and sugar cane, with medicinal plants between them.
East of the central park, so you can walk to the meeting point.
Made from the plants you have just been shown, on the farm half.
Capped at fifteen travellers, and often far fewer.
Two things at once, and both done properly. The first half is a guided walk on a sloth trail with a guide whose job is to find animals in a canopy where you would never see them unaided. Sloths are the headline; toucans, frogs and armadillos turn up as well.
The second half crosses to a small farm beside the trail, where coffee, cacao and sugar cane grow alongside a good number of medicinal plants. The farm half is deliberately unhurried — the walking has already been done — so it works as a tasting rather than a second hike.
It is the priciest La Fortuna booking here at a hundred dollars, and the reason is the guiding. If you were going to book a sloth walk and a farm morning separately, this does both in three hours. It is also the answer for anyone whose party is split between coffee tours in La Fortuna and wanting to see an animal.
You want wildlife and a farm in the same booking, you have three hours, and you would rather pay once than twice. It suits older children, photographers and anyone whose party cannot agree on one or the other.
You want depth on the crops, or step-free ground, or the lowest price. The trail is not suitable for wheelchairs, and the Don Olivo cacao plantation gives you two hours on level accessible paths for less than a third of the fare.
Six hundred metres east of La Fortuna's central park, at the sloth trail itself. Transport is not included, but the meeting point is close enough to walk from most hotels in town, and a taxi is a few dollars from anywhere else.
No guide anywhere can promise a wild animal, but the scopes make a real difference and several sightings on one walk is normal here. Toucans, frogs and armadillos turn up as well.
Roughly the second half of three hours, covering coffee, cacao, sugar cane and the medicinal plants, with a drink made from each. It is a tasting rather than a full farm walkthrough — the whole chain is set out here.
No. The meeting point is 600 metres east of the central park, which is walkable from most of La Fortuna, and a taxi is a few dollars from anywhere further out.
The walk stops, because lightning in open forest is a safety matter rather than a judgement call, and the operator refunds or reschedules. More on rain, lightning and refunds.
It costs about what a guided sloth walk and a farm morning would cost separately, and it does both in three hours with one set of guides. If wildlife is not the draw, the cheaper farm-only mornings give you more crop for less.
The walking is gentle but it is three hours, so it suits school age and up better than toddlers. Children must be accompanied by an adult, and the trail is not wheelchair accessible.
The Don Olivo cacao plantation runs two hours on level accessible paths at a third of the fare. You lose the wildlife half and gain a proper walk through one crop.
I thought this would be a tourist trap and it was nothing of the kind. Thirty-five acres of woods, and we saw about seven sloths. The coffee was very good and the cacao and sugar cane were genuinely interesting for the children.
Christopher · July 2026 · family
La Fortuna Coffee and sloth tour · Sloth trail and farm tasting
We wanted to see sloths and we saw at least twelve, including a couple with babies. Augustin picked them out in the trees with a spotting scope and made sure everyone got a good look and a photograph.
David · July 2026 · group
La Fortuna Coffee and sloth tour · Sloth trail and farm tasting
A storm came in and the sloth walk was cut short, with the guide telling us it was not safe to stay out. We were refunded in full. Worth asking about the weather policy if you are booking in the green season.
Jill · July 2026 · family
La Fortuna Coffee and sloth tour · Sloth trail and farm tasting
If this one is not yours, the other two featured mornings are North Fields, a two-and-a-half-hour coffee, cacao and cane morning with hotel pickup and Don Olivo, a two-hour cacao plantation visit at the lowest price in town.
All of them, with prices and hours side by side, are on La Fortuna Coffee Tours.