2024 at Manatees Observation Supporter
Volunteer Coordinator
Highlights
- Feel like a part of a family at our small, local project!
- Enjoy an amazing wild place with deserted beach, river and jungle!
- Help our team saving and monitoring endangered animals!
- Help and learn about the local community and biodiversity!
- Live the real adventure in the heart of Costa Rica's Caribbean nature, while meeting like-minded people!
- Feel like a part of a family at our small, local project!
- Enjoy an amazing wild place with deserted beach, river and jungle!
- Help our team saving and monitoring endangered animals!
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About the program
Join our team as a coordinator and help us with our three programs for sea turtles, manatees and monkeys!
Take the
opportunity of volunteering abroad in an amazing place! Our ecological goal is to observe and protect Wildlife.
Come and join us for an unforgettable experience, the only requirement is adventurous blood!
The project Naturaleza Pacuare was founded by local people and is also managed by them. ..
Typical day
Our day typically starts with an early morning walk or boat ride to monitor monkeys or observe manatees.
At 8 AM we come back to prepare and eat breakfast.
From 9 AM we do our first activity of the day which could vary from cleaning our beaches, maintaining our garden, to helping out locals with ...
Free-time activities
In your free time you will be able to enjoy jungle walks, playing sports and cards with other volunteers, fishing, kayaking and even make bonfires on the beach, when we’re not in turtle season. You can learn the local cuisine while helping out locals and try out the typical dance types of Costa ...
Requirements
What's Included
What's NOT included?
Details on arrival
The best and cheapest way to arrive is by taking the bus from San Jose to Bataan. You can catch it at Grand Terminal del Caribe in San José center and buy your tickets directly there. There’s 2 options. There’s a bus leaving from San Jose at 7:30am, arriving to Siquirres around 10am. Then you can catch a bus at 11:15am from Siquirres to Bataan. The second option is the bus leaves at 2pm from San Jose and arrives directly to Bataan at 5pm. Bus tickets cost about 4000 Costa Rican colones. Then you catch the taxi from Bataan bus station (which is already pre-organized and waiting for you) to the boat dock for 10 000 colones. To finish off your journey, a 25-minute long trip by boat on the river which costs 25 000 colones, (12 500 colones each way) already including your departure ride. The whole trip all together takes about 4,5 hours.
Program fees
Meet your organization
Naturaleza de Pacuare
Agency - founded in 2019
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
Victor Alexander
About the project
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