Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Admission Ticket

Explore the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel and avoid the long lines with this skip-the-line admission ticket (免排队门票).

Your Vatican experience starts in Vatican City, where you’ll meet your guide and walk to a private entrance. Your admission ticket provides you with the fastest skip-the-line entrance at the Vatican Museums. Your guide will provide a map of the museums and leave you to explore the museums’ 9 miles of rooms and galleries.

Design your own schedule and enjoy highlights such as Raphael’s Rooms, the four connecting rooms with Renaissance works by Raphael and his students, the Pinacoteca Gallery, and the Etruscan Museum. Most explorations of the Vatican Museums end in the Sistine Chapel. Of course, you re there to see Michelangelo ’s famous frescoes, The Creationof Adam on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the wall.

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund (退款). If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’ s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded. Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’ ’s start time will not be accepted. This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund. This experience requires a minimum (最小的) number of visitors. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date or experience or a full refund.

Located three hours’ drive north west of the capital, San Jose, the town of La Fortuna offers a springboard (跳板) to explore the landscape around the inactive Arenal Volcano. The smoke may have stopped a decade ago, but the volcanic energy still inspires adventure here.

There are dozens of trails in the region but hiking Arenal National Park on the lake side of the volcano offers the chance to lose oneself in nature. There are newly improved steps leading to viewing platforms of the volcano. Out on the trail there are scores of bird species to spot. Guided tour and hot-spring visit with Anywhere from $131 (£97). anywhere.com

As well as its volcanic centrepiece, the remarkable topography (地形) of the Arenal region offers ideal conditions for white water rafting. A number of tours are bookable in La Fortuna, the most adventurous of which take you to nine-mile sections of the Balsa River, where you’ll battle Class IV rapids (急流). Tours from $68 (£50). arenalrafting.com

The steep hike down to the base of La Fortuna Waterfall will inspire a sense of foreboding in some travelers. The good news is that the sweaty trip offers a 230ft waterfall — one of the most beautiful in the country — as a reward. It’s so picture-perfect that locals are often spotted in or around the plunge pool posing for wedding photos. Entry $18 (£13). cataratalafortuna.com

This cleverly designed forest walk uses a combination of six suspension bridges and hairpin bends to offer continuous surprises and great access to jungle wildlife, including toucans and hummingbirds (蜂鸟). When you cross the bridges, looking out rather than down is rarely more rewarding — the park has great views of waterfalls, canyons and the Arenal Volcano. Head out to explore alone or book onto a natural history or nighttime tour. Entry from $26 (£19). misticopark.com

Cedar Creek Treehouse

Cedar Creek Treehouse is very high. About 15m above ground, it is wrapped around the trunk of an enormous 200-year-old red cedar tree. The treehouse is the brainchild of Bill Compher, who has created this special building at the border between Mount Rainier National Park and the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington.

Access is along a 25m-long suspension bridge, then up a five-story stairway whose fourth floor is a glass observation area, where you can swing in a hammock (吊床) and enjoy the mountain views. On the fifth floor, the treehouse is divided into two levels: from the entrance there’s a surprisingly spacious living room, kitchen, bathroom and sunroom, while upstairs there are two double beds and skylights so you can take in the night sky.

But if this isn’t enough of a bird’s-eye-view, you can climb up a separate 30m stairway, walk across another suspension bridge to a glass observatory and admire the 360-degree views of the forest. But this is not for everyone. “Climbing an 85-foot staircase, walking a 45-foot-long suspension bridge to a treehouse observatory 100 feet in the sky... that takes a special kind of person.” wrote Compher on his website.

Need to know: Kids under 7 are not allowed inside the treehouse. Rates are $250 for two people per night, and $25 for each additional guest.