Experienced and unexperienced riders will enjoy horseback riding in La Merced. Our horses are carefully trained for you to have a nice experience while you cross the Wildlife Refuge in the middle of nature in the forest, the beach or the river. You can visit Punta Uvita in the Ballena Marine National Park, ride in the forest, the beach and to a waterfall in the river to take a swim.
Various interests can be found here such as the environmentally sustainable cattle operation, nature, or just the pleasure of riding a horse. Groups are kept individualized as they come.
Options: -Tour to the beach and Tour to the waterfall. We also offer longer rides by side roads conecting small country towns. Come and have an unforgetable experience!

Estimated tour time: 3-4 hours.
Rate: US $35 /person
Minimum 2 persons.
Children are welcomed. Saddles for children 7 and older. For your own safety we provide security helmets.
Breakfast and / or lunch can be ordered when reserving your tour. Breakfast: US$6 / person. Lunch: US$9 / person.
* Sunset Ride: Price $40 per person A romantic ride at sunset on the beach. Enjoy, and fall in love again! Estimated tour time: 2 hours. Minimum 2 persons
Cowboy for a Day
Consists of riding with the cowboys, driving cattle, checking calves and cows out in the pasture, learning to rope calves, and other ranch activities. Rancho La Merced is a working cattle ranch dedicated to the production of beef cattle in harmony with the ecological balance of the surrounding tropical rainforest and mangrove.
Here you can enjoy been a cowboy. Depending on the time of the year of you visit, you can ride with the ranch hands, round-up cattle and many other jobs that cowboys do in the course of a normal day’s work on Rancho La Merced.
Estimated tour time: ½ day - 2-3 hours Price: US$35 per person
All day - 6-7 hours Price: US$60 per person.
Minimum 2 persons. Breakfast and lunch are included in the all day tour.
How to get there:
We are located in front of the Km 159 landmark of the Costanera Sur Highway. If you are comming from the Northwest, the reception building will be on your right, 15 Km from Dominical.
If you are comming from Palmar Sur (Southeast), we are 1.5 Km from Banco de Costa Rica, Uvita branch, on your left.
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