This half-day trip is a walk on the wild side, where you’ll come face-to-face with monkeys, deer, insects and perhaps even an ocelot – or dwarf leopard – in Santa Rosa National Park. You’ll start out with a visit to La Casona monument, where a small Costa Rican army won the final fight against the Filibusters trying to invade. Today, there’s a museum on the same site, to help remember the men who risked their lives fighting for Costa Rica’s freedom. After learning about the history, you’ll hike in the park, which happens to be Central America’s largest remaining area of tropical dry forest. There are plenty of different trails for hikers, depending on what you’d like to see, but the white-tailed deer trail is a great way to spot one of the country’s national symbols.