“The most beautiful island of the world”, was Jacques Cousteau’s reaction when he visited Isla de Coco, or Coco Island.
Coco Island is located in the Pacific Ocean, 532kms southwest from White Cabo. The Coco Island National Park could be compared to the Galapagos Islands. It really consists of the summit of an extinct volcano. Over [...]

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The Braulio Carillo National Park is an excellent place to visit a tropical rain forest just as we imagine it should be, like the ones we see in adventure movies, or in documentaries. It is important to remember that only some 20 years ago, this is how most of the country looked! The flora and [...]

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The Rincon de la Vieja National Park is located just 30 minutes northeast from Liberia, Guanacaste. Unfortunately, due to bad roads, there are only two early morning buses between Liberia and the park, which mostly serve employees of the various inns and restaurants in the area. Your best bet it to find a hotel that [...]

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Corcovado National Park is the most ecologically diverse region in Costa Rica. Set on the edge of the Osa Peninsula, the park encompasses nearly 55,000 hectares of tropical jungle and includes 2,400 hectare protected marine zone. It is home to the only old growth wet forest left on the Pacific coast of Central America, and [...]

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The Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge is the last stop on the Puerto Viejo Road along the Caribbean Coast, you cannot go any further, unless you want to walk, and it is highly inadvisable as it’s pure jungle all the way to Panama.
The tropical forest of the Caribbean is green, green and greener and very different from what you [...]

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Carara National Park is very close to San Jose and very easy to get to; take to road to Jaco, drive for about 1 and half hours, and there it is, just past the Tarcoles bridge (the crocodile bridge as it’s called, because people always stop there to watch them laze about by the river banks). [...]

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La Selva Biological Station is about 3 kms away from Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, and 79 kms away from San Jose via Braulio Carrillo Park, at the confluence of two major rivers. It was established by Dr Leslie Holdridge in 1954, when it was just a small farm dedicated to the study of mixed plantations and the improvement [...]

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The majority of guests to Costa Rica are attracted by the diverse ecosystems and wildlife, which represents about 5% of the world’s biodiversity. From the Monteverde Cloud Forest to the marine preserve in Manuel Antonio and the steamy white-sand beaches of the Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica’s landscape will not disappoint. The country’s government has been an active [...]

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he Ostional National Park is famed for the turtles that come onto its beaches and lay their eggs between the months of June to December. The Park is located in the Guancaste province of Costa Rica between the counties of Nicoya and Santa Cruz. The park covers 300Ha of Land and then extends [...]

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