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Horseback Riding
Isla Navidad and Playa de Cocos |
| This three to three and a half hour horse riding tour is popular with many of our more experienced riders but is also suitable for anyone who wants a longer ride, doesn't mind a bit of dismounting and mounting for gates - there are five - and wants to finish up with a gallop or a canter on a nice flat beach. One thing to note this is the only of our horse tours that runs for any distance on a paved road with vehicle traffic. We use the shoulder of the paved secondary highway to Isla Navidad for a very short distance (about 3/4 of a mile) to facilitate using a very short bridge over an irrigation canal. If you are at all nervous about this we invite you to book another of our rides that does not involve riding on the shoulder of any paved roads where there may be vehicle traffic. |
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This horse tour can be reserved for any day of the week from April 15 to December 25. From December 26, 2009 to April 14, 2010 this trip will be offered from Aguacate to Playa de Cocos on Wednesdays and from Playa de Cocos to Aguacate on Thursdays.
Optional drop off at Coco Cabanas restaurant on the beach at the end of the tour is possible. |
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Isla Navidad and Playa de Cocos Tour
Price and Details |
On this trip you will ride from Aguacate on highway 200 north of Manzanillo and near Barra de Navidad and Melaque to Playa de Cocos a beautiful flat beach on the open ocean. The ride takes you along Arroyo Seco - a dry river bed between banks of tall shady trees - around the back of laguna de Navidad and over to Playa de Cocos on the penninsula between Laguna Navidad and the ocean known as "Isla Navidad" where you can ride on the flat hard packed beach. Scenery varies from jungle to grassland and brush on the route to the beach. Arroyo Seco and the area at the back of Laguna Navidad are natural havens for a wide variety of bird life so this tour provides a marvelous opportunity for bird watching from horseback. Note: If your interest runs to birding it's best to leave on this tour at first light.
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COST: as a three to three and a half hour one way tour the cost is $900 pesos per person which includes transport back to Barra de Navidad.
You may also choose to make it a return trip and ride back to Aguacate and make this a six hour ride for $1,300 pesos per person.
Reservations required 24 hours in advance of tour. |
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