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Reptile Parks

Costa Rica Herp Tours

Experience multi-day Herp Tours guided by experts. We offer individualized field excursions with flexible itineraries for private, small groups. Photograph live reptiles, explore tropical biology first-hand for the ultimate research support. Day and night hikes in lowland rainforest on the Pacific and Atlantic versants, montane wet forests, cloud forests and tropical dry forests in the Guanacaste region. We arrange lodging: first-class or frugal, you decide. Quetzal & Monica also offer their services as bilingual guides for herp expeditions in Cuba and Venezuela as well as throughout Costa Rica and Central America.

We take you where the reptiles are!

Animal Planet’s Snakemaster series, starring Austin Stevens, began airing in 2005 on Discovery Channel. The Costa Rica episode, filmed by UK based Tigress Productions, features a variety of snakes courtesy of Parque Reptilandia, including “Big Bertha” our giant female Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper).

 

Description:

Costa Rica's Largest & Most Diverse Reptile Exhibition

How to find us:

We are located 7 km from Dominical up the paved highway to San Isidro del General, just before the village of Platanillo. Our facility is only 50 meters off the paved road and is 2-wheel drive accessible. There is parking available for large groups. Dominical and San Isidro taxi drivers know our location and the bus stops at our entrance!

Central America's first Komodo dragon "Langka", which is an Indonesian word meaning "rare". Langka was born September 20th, 2004 at a reptile breeding park in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain as part of an international breeding program. She is a descendant of Sobat and Friendty, the first Komodo dragons brought to the United States, a state gift from Indonesia to the Ronald Reagan administration in 1988. Her mother was one of the first babies born at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. in 1995. Her father is from Gembira Loka Zoo in Yogakarta, Indonesia and is now 12 years old.

Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) are endemic to five islands in southeast Indonesia, including the island of Flores.

Komodo dragons are very smart, and learn quick. With frequent interaction captive dragons can become very tame. Unlike their wild cousins, captive Komodo dragons do not develop the deadly toxic bacteria in their saliva which they are so famous for. Langka is learning her name and quickly becoming socialized to her keepers and the public. Though she is now only a little over a meter long, she will grow to be one of the largest terrestrial lizards to walk the earth.

 

Parque Reptilandia

Costa Rica Herp Tours
Contact Parque Reptilandia

Experience multi-day Herp Tours guided by experts. We offer individualized field excursions with flexible itineraries for private, small groups. Photograph live reptiles, explore tropical biology first-hand for the ultimate research support. Day and night hikes in lowland rainforest on the Pacific and Atlantic versants, montane wet forests, cloud forests and tropical dry forests in the Guanacaste region. We arrange lodging: first-class or frugal, you decide. Quetzal & Monica also offer their services as bilingual guides for herp expeditions in Cuba and Venezuela as well as throughout Costa Rica and Central America.

We take you where the reptiles are!

Animal Planet’s Snakemaster series, starring Austin Stevens, began airing in 2005 on Discovery Channel. The Costa Rica episode, filmed by UK based Tigress Productions, features a variety of snakes courtesy of Parque Reptilandia, including “Big Bertha” our giant female Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper).

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