Top La Fortuna Classes & Workshops

Combine learning to cook with learning to dance with this combo experience. You'll learn how to make traditional Costa Rican food and sit down to eat your creation. Once you're done, you'll work off your meal with a dance lesson focused on Latin dance styles such as salsa, merengue, cumbia, and bachata.

This cooking class farm to table is hands-on experience. You will collect the ingredients your-self in our organic farm. (All depending on the season, we will collect what there is available.) We are show you and explain all the plants and tree we have. You will learn about old Costa Rican culture & cooking techniques. The food will be cook in an open wood-fire kitchen.

Learn to cook some traditional Costa Rican food from a local grandmother, who knows all the secret tips. Dona Chela will help you to prepare the dishes with ingredients from her garden, which you can also wander around before and after you cook. You'll cook your food in the traditional, old school way, by using the wood-fired stove in the kitchen.

Our customized yoga class at our Riverside Rainforest yoga platform is the perfect opportunity to either continue your practice or if you’re new to yoga, this is an unintimidating class to help you explore this amazing, wholesome activity. Vacations are perfect for trying new things.

After this experience, you will have the knowledge to do the same back home. Here you will learn how to take advantage of all the medicinal and sacred values that cacao has. Balance your body, mind, and soul taking cacao as what it is, a superfood, sacred and divine! And of course, walk away with your own dark chocolate bars, a modern way to take the benefits of cacao into us! A nature connection, an inside of a Costa Rican family. Let us show you our pure lifestyle!

Get a taste of authentic Costa Rican life and cuisine as you join a local family for a cooking class and home-style meal. Along with a guide, visit the home of your hosts outside of La Fortuna and learn about household customs and cooking techniques. Join in the preparation of a typical meal, and then savor the fruits of your labor alongside new friends.

Join a local chef for an afternoon cooking class in downtown La Fortuna. Learn how to make Costa Rican dishes and cocktails in the relaxed atmosphere. You can choose to participate in the meal prep or simply observe. Discover traditional cooking techniques as you make a three-course meal, featuring dishes such as ceviche, coconut flan, and chayote picadillo. The class is designed for both beginners and seasoned cooks.

Spend a half-day at a farm in La Fortuna for a cooking class that features some of Costa Rica’s favorite dishes. Start with a tour of the farm’s orchards and gardens, collect some ingredients for your meal, then head to the kitchen to learn to prepare classics such as gallo pinto (rice and beans). Top off your experience by enjoying the meal with your hosts.

Immerse yourself in Costa Rica's vibrant and friendly culture by learning to Dance Like a Local! Sign up for our Dance Lessons with a local instructor to get your feet moving to the beats of merengue, salsa, cumbia and a Costa Rican favorite: Bachata. This is done as a group experience with a minimum of two clients.

We are a small Costa Rican family of 5, made up of Lidiana, Eddie, our sons Aaron, Edison and our daughter in law Tiffany. We also have 3 cats and a dog. We are determined to improve ourselves day by day, our main objective as a Costa Rican family and peasant, is to maintain our customs, traditions and share them with visitors so they can feel at home and part of our family.

Don’t just feast on delicious ceviche and empanadas, learnt to cook the Latin American delicacies during a cooking class in La Fortuna. Enjoy personalized attention from your cooking instructor as you learn about Costa Rican cuisine, while enjoying views of the mighty El Arenal volcano and sipping cocktails.

The alcohol you use at home, you will see it differently after this class, because we will explain why we have chosen a specific rum, or tequila, and how you can substitute them. You will discover new alcohols, the Costa Rican ones such as Cacique or Ron

We want to give our guests a special experience. By showing you around on our organic farm and allowing yourself to pick the cocoa fruits from the trees and be a part of the whole process from start to end. Our farm has the most beautiful view of the Arenal volcano and away from the noise of the city. Our guides are born and raised in the same environment and you can see and feel how passionate they are about it when they explain about the cocoa. The atmosphere a our farm is very relaxed and comfortable. Our chocolate tour is small groups of maximun 10 people.

Costa Rica Cooking Class and Dinner There is something special about having an authentic experience while traveling abroad. Cultures identify themselves through their cuisine and Costa Ricans are no different -- and it's not just "rice and beans..." We invite you to have a delightful, local-style meal and enjoy what may be your most-memorable meal in Costa Rica! Try your hand at preparing our favorite Costa Rican recipes! You'll learn about Costa Rican food and local agricultural products INCLUDES Delicious cooking class; home-cooked meal; transportation; memories to last a lifetime! RECOMMENDED AGES 5-85 YEARS DURATION 2. Hrs WHAT TO BRING Camera and a big appetite! MINIMUM PEOPLE 2 Min

It is an activity where you will enjoy a real experience of what it is to work on a coffee farm, where you will share with the collectors and the owner, you will be able to feel what a collector feels in his daily work, you will be able to carry out other activities adjacent to coffee production such as it is fertilizing, weeding, spraying etc. It is a unique and 100% real experience. Also, if they wish, they can have breakfast or lunch on the farm and also have the opportunity to see a great diversity of birds and our river with the waterfall.

With the help and instruction of the cooks, the travelers will be able to prepare a typical dish, in the class they will learn and put into practice the culinary techniques for the creation of the dish, information about the traditions and customs of Costa Rican cuisine will be disclosed, they will learn about new local ingredients and their uses and we offer alternative dishes if the traveler is vegan or has any allergies, the latter must be notified in advance to the people who will teach the class

The canyoning and cooking class combo is perfect for couples and groups of friends who would like to explore both the Costa Rican rainforest and the local, tropical cuisine. - Full Day Canyoning and Cooking Class combo with an afternoon break at your hotel - Includes bilingual guides, transportation, lunch, snack - Starts at 7am, and lasts for 6-7 hours - Family + Kid Friendly!