Client Testimonials

” If you're looking for a reliable, attentive Costa Rican tour planner to provide quality trips for your clients or members, I can recommend none other than Terri Peterson and Pizotes Adventure Tours. Terri has been designing truly memorable and very affordable tours for Club Carefree 50 members since 2003. Her love and knowledge of Costa Rica's wildlife and its people helps her at selecting the perfect comfortable, safe and diverse destinations and activities that exceed all expectations for adventure, wildlife viewing, exploring, relaxation, and fun. Each day is better than the day before!

Terri is easy to work with in planning our trips and it is a joy to have her personally accompany the group on our tours. She's enthusiastic, engaging and informative with the travelers and helps them get the most out of their experience. We especially appreciate the community service projects she coordinates for the groups. It gives our members a sense of belonging instead of just visiting.

Creating the perfect group tour is not just a job for Terri. It has become a passion fulfilled to share the glorious beaches, volcanoes, mountains, rivers, birds, food, traditions, and delightful people of her new home. It shows in her enthusiasm in creating the best tour she can. I would consider working with no one else on our future travels to Costa Rica."
- Group Trip Client – Gloria Johnson, Director, Club Carefree 50 - Umpqua Bank, Oregon, California, and Washington

Costa Rica Wildlife & Eco Adventure Tours

Planning a Group Eco Adventure to Costa Rica?
Experience nature travel in Costa Rica at its finest with Pizotes Eco Adventure Group Tours. Pizotes Eco Adventure Tours is bringing this premier nature destination to life by offering exciting, creative, and safe group tours of 12-25 adult travelers.

Though often overused, the term 'eco-tourism' (or ecological tourism) should refer to authentic experiences that allow the visitor to experience (see, smell, hear, touch and sometimes even taste) the natural and cultural world of an area with as little impact as possible. Pizotes strives to do this with the help of many of Costa Rica's best eco-destinations. Lush forests teeming with wildlife, authentic cultural experiences, waterfalls, white-sand beaches, erupting volcanoes, and zip-line forest flights await you. With five years of tried and tested group itineraries, happy travelers, and personal relationships built with quality destinations, Pizotes Eco Adventures can deliver incredible experiences your group will treasure for a lifetime; allowing only to chance what wildlife will show up in your camera's lens or binoculars.

Not a tour planner, don't have a group, but want to travel on a Pizotes tour?

You're welcome to join us and Pizotes can offer a couple of excellent options. If a client offering a group tour of your choice has additional space, we may be able to add you to their group. Or, from time-to-time, Pizotes plans and markets our own tours. See the Upcoming Trip description below to see what exciting adventure we are offering next.

Diversity in a Diverse Land
Pizotes Eco Adventures offers a variety of itineraries to enjoy; from 8-14 days. Visit Summary of Trips page for brief descriptions of each.

If you wish to help design your own itinerary, we can tailor a package to a duration, budget, and activity level your group will enjoy. Rustic, eco-lodge, or 5 star eco-hotel, on the go or relaxed, nature, science, or cultural experiences, secluded or popular destinations, or a little of each! We can make it a reality. Although scheduled in a necessarily structured itinerary, the tours provide ample options for activities with the freedom to fulfill individual pursuits. Optional activities such as snorkeling, kayaking, a relaxing massage, horseback riding, deep-sea fishing, and more are available to the traveler during their trip.

Tours with a heart ♥
Leave more than just your footprints behind! A hallmark of each Pizotes Eco Adventure Tours is the opportunity to participate in a hands-on community service project at one of the trip destinations. Get a first-hand experience of Costa Rican life while giving a few hours of your time and skills. Pizotes coordinates this activity with your group size, age, and abilities in mind and donates the necessary funds to see the project through.

Planning, planning, planning
Personalized, intricate planning is the key to a smooth and event-filled adventure and is the specialty of owner and operator, Terri Peterson. Terri has spent 10 years traveling the four corners of Costa Rica and everywhere in between. When, as a visitor, leaving this eco-heaven became harder to do, Terri and partner, Gary, made Costa Rica their home. Here, in the 'jewel of Central America' she has found a passion for sharing her special destinations with visitors. From their private piece of protected rainforest in the southern, untamed Osa Peninsula, Terri crafts her tours, managing every aspect of in-country accommodations, transportation, tours, activities, and local guides. And because your group's experience is of the utmost importance, Terri escorts every group throughout their trip, from the time they touch down in Costa Rica to their departure.

UPCOMING TOUR ~ New for 2009!   FOR GROUP OR  INDIVIDUAL  

          Caribbean  Treasures & the Sea Turtles of Tortuguero  

            9 Days/8 Nights

            DATE: TBA

          Witness one of nature’s true wonders,  sea turtles coming ashore to lay their nests and hatchlings struggling to make  it to the sea.  Visit a remote indigenous  village, meet a sloth, and awake to howler monkey calls inside a wildlife  reserve.   

          > More details about this tour coming soon