{"id":876,"date":"2011-12-22T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:16:12","slug":"most-popular-tour-of-2011-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/most-popular-tour-of-2011-costa-rica","title":{"rendered":"Most Popular Tour of 2011: Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ziplining through the rainforest, Costa Rica 2011- Explorica by megxoxo321, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/67413605@N03\/6136004281\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6192\/6136004281_86eb2d576b.jpg\" alt=\"ziplining through the rainforest, Costa Rica 2011- Explorica\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>As 2011 comes to an end, we are counting down some of our \u2018most populars\u2019 of the year. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This past year, our most popular tour by far was <a href=\"..\/..\/educational-tours\/costa-rica.aspx\">Costa Rica<\/a>.\u00a0 Teachers and students just can\u2019t seem to get enough of this tropical country\u2014maybe because it provides an excellent combination of forest ecology, ocean and beach biology, and plenty of Spanish language instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Among this tour\u2019s many activities, participants will look down 1,000 feet into the active Po\u00e1s Volcano, kayak across the crystalline Lake Arenal and relax in its numerous bubbling hot springs, then strap into a harness for the ultimate rainforest experience as they soar through the canopy on a zip line.<\/p>\n<p>And with many additional activities that Group Leaders can add to further customize their tour like visiting a local coconut farm, touring a coffee plantation, or even adding a service visit to a local school, we can see why this itinerary has become a \u2018fan favorite\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2011 comes to an end, we are counting down some of our \u2018most populars\u2019 of the year. This past year, our most popular tour by far was Costa Rica.\u00a0 Teachers and students just can\u2019t seem to get enough of this tropical country\u2014maybe because it provides an excellent combination of forest ecology, ocean and beach <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/most-popular-tour-of-2011-costa-rica\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63],"tags":[52,58],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-parents","category-students","tag-costa-rica","tag-educational-travel","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}