Costa Rica Paragliding Tour 2026
Pura-Vida Paragliding Adventures
Already exhausted, and the trip is only just beginning!
Working it!
Birds of a feather...
Learning to work together to find lift.
Flying into the light.
Montezumas Oropendula munching on a banana straight from the tree.
Yellow Throated Toucan, sitting in their favorite tree at La Iguana, looking at our group below.
Look, a Toucan! ...Another one. 😉
Too close? Golden Orb Weaver
Hibiscus flower. So pretty!
Hiking through the finca, near the Cinnamon Tree.
Hibiscus flowers, cinnamon trees, orb spiders, and so much more at La Iguana.
Score!
Tour One. Enjoying the Dominical Skies!
Up high, but it's a long way to the beach!
Ready to go!
Getting higher!
Diamante Falls, the Whales Tail, Dominical. All easily visible from this high!
With the site almost to ourselves! 🙂
Lindsey. Loving life!
Flying with birds is the best
On the way out to Dominical
Nightly launch and flight reviews, places for improvement and plans for the next day.
Multi-tasking: Looking for thermals, and maybe an easy lunch?
Fun!
Soaring with some friendly Vultures.
Soaring with some friendly Vultures.
Cleaning up launch for the season. An annual task.
Look up you guys!
Dinner at Jerah Thai. Yum!
Bijagual Falls
Bijagual Falls
Probably 6' tall.
Jaco bliss.
Jason, always on top of the stack!
Almost always... 🙂
🙂
Don't look now, but he's smiling! 🙂
Mischievous.
Dominical. Such a pretty place to fly!
Dominical. Such a pretty place to fly!
Dominical. Such a pretty place to fly!
Dominical. Such a pretty place to fly!
Wood Storks
The view from the Blue Sky Restaurant at the Parrita flying site.
Handsome devil!
Handsome devil!
Lapa - lunching on a limb
Lapa - lunching on a limb
Lapas, giving us quite the show!
Lapa - lunching on a limb
Score!
Way to go!
Maren and Whit. Sharing some girl time!
Standing tall!
Killer Frog: Only about the size of your little finger nail. Probably just crawled out of the water!
This is why we don't land in trees in the tropics!
Knees in the breeze!
It's pretty up there!
It's pretty up there!
This is how to get ready to fly! Looking good Tour 2
Bringing it all together.
It's always awesome to see the progress real time!
Epic Evening Enchantment!
Fun camera angles.
Can I be your friend?
A Silver Garden Orbweaver
Ready to go!
Sunburns don't only happen to gringos!
Melania after a fun flight!
Jorge - Showing us the finer points of making chocolate.
Making new friends every year.
Perhaps the best part of travel?!?
Way to go!
The glisten of sweat on your cheeks.
Something you get used to in the tropics!
Sort of!
Another of our favorite river canyons that only a few folks know about.
Yea, it feels awesome!
Would you jump off this hill?
Daniel, almost ready to fly!
Street art in Jaco.
The amount of self control it took for him to simply not just lick the spatula was impressive!
A Basilisk Lizard, sometimes called a 'Jesus Christ Lizard' because they really can walk on water. (Run, actually!
La Iguana Chocolate. Truly a family operation!
La Iguana. Best chocolatiers we know!
Utisha, Maren and Christian. Our Jerah Thai Hosts.
Tide Pooling!
Friends at Nemaclys.
Really good people! 🙂
Pic taken from the car window.
Thanks for everything!
Our last look at an empty Las Terrazas launch, after nearly three months of spending our days here. See you next year Jaco!!!
Melania and Coco. The weird sounding dog...
So many good friends we have to say goodbye to!
LA in the fog. On the last leg home.
Welcome home!