Playa Guiones Information

Playa Guiones is the most popular of the Nosara Beaches, and it is one of the best Costa Rica surfing beaches. The foreign community of Nosara, made up of Americans and Europeans, is proud of the tranquility and feeling of belonging one feels in Guiones. It seems everyone knows every one else, and they work together to keep it free from too much tourism, crime as well as clean and unpolluted. The town is also proud to exhibit some of the best sunsets seen anywhere, for this very reason the whole area is known as the Gold Coast!
The sand of Playa Guiones is soft and white, little ranchitos are scattered along the shore offering shade. It has everything! Shopping, a huge choice of restaurants and hotels, various supermarkets offering a large variety of foreign foods, yoga, massage, energy healing, and an excellent health service for both residents and visitors, an airport, a bank, wonderful beaches, surfing, swimming, deep sea fishing, sunshine, horse-riding, bicycles, kayaking, AND canoing.
But there is more! When the foreign community settled down some 30 years or more ago, they established a reforestation program, and the results are here today. The area is an example of excellence and of well planned growth: an ecological triumph! The flora and fauna along the coast is outstanding and it is not unusual to find yourself in a property surrounded by nothing but nature, enveloped and lost in the jungle.
This natural tropical dry forest, one of the planets most cherished ecosystem, is another well guarded secret of Nosara. Some black jaguars are still seen at night, but they are very shy animals. Although a lot of people live there now, it doesn’t feel crowded, the atmosphere is relaxed and laid back, except perhaps during Christmas New/Year for a couple of days and during Easter week, when hotels are all booked and the crowds seem to appear out of nowhere! It is not surprising indeed that so many visitors come to Guiones and in the space of a week, turn their lives upside down and decide to move there and stay forever! Guiones is where it is possible to find a good rhythm of life, peace of mind and a deep feeling of being in the right place.
South of Guiones is Playa Rosada, with its appealing pink stretch of sand, popular for snorkeling as the surf is calmer there, and to the North, visit Playa Pelada, a jewel of a little beach, good for shell collecting. The sea is very calm there as it is protected by a coral reef, so it is excellent for swimming and playing in the sea, or just floating! Bring your mask for snorkeling too, and make sure you do not miss the famous blow hole in the rocks, spraying water up in the air with great force! Playa Pelada is so quiet that you will probably fall asleep there!
Some small typical fishing boats are not just there for decoration as local fishing men can be seen coming and going, their prize in hand. Although Pelicans are always present on the whole coast, watch them dive for their fish in Pelada, and further down behind the rocks, where the river mouth is, more birds, especially gulls.