COSTA RICA’S NATIONAL PARKS

If you are traveling to Costa Rica and plan to visit Manuel Antonio-Quepos and want a true nature orientated tour, take the Rainmaker Tour.  You can purchase this thru Iguana Tours located in Quepos.  Quepos is a very small town, only three city blocks so ask anyone and they can guide you to Iguana Tour’s [...]

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If you have a free day while vacationing in Costa Rica and you are in the central valley of San Jose, be sure to see Irazu Volcano National Park, located about one hour out side San Jose. You can purchase a day trip from one of the local tour operators in the San Jose Area.  [...]

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Zipping over the top of the rain forest, Arenal Sky Tram Arenal The Arenal Volcano with  the Arenal volcano National Park is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Costa Rica.   What is the Arenal Volcano like?  It is a hugh cone shaped volcano which almost constantly spews lava, hot gases,  and hot molten [...]

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Ann on September 20th, 2009

Costa Rica is famous among tourist as having beautiful rain forest where hundreds of species of plants and animals live.   The best place in Costa Rica  for a tourist to see a primary rain forest, one that is hundreds of years old and has never been cut,  is  Corcovado National Park in the Southwestern Pacific [...]

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Squirrel Monkeys are found in Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica.  This is a lowland primary rain forest  located on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica , with few roads and almost no development of the land and little invasion by man.  Tourist come here to Corcovado National Park  but not in large numbers [...]

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If birds are what you want to see  travel  to Palo Verde National Park in Costa Rica’s northern province of Guanacaste,  because the  biggest attraction in the park is the BIRDS.  The months of mid December through mid March over one half million birds migrate south to Palo Verde,  escaping the extreme cold weather in [...]

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Don’t  let the eyelash viper scare you!   We encountered him along the hiking trail, almost  brushing him as we passed.  Camouflaged in the jungle bushes, he was lazily taking the morning sun.  The Arenal Volcano National Park  is my favorite tourist destination in Costa Rica, if I can say I have a favorite.    I [...]

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Ann on June 3rd, 2009

Cahuita Beach If you are thinking of traveling to Costa Rica and want to explore the Caribbean coast, then Cahuita National Park is a unique stop.  The town of Cahuita  , located adjacent to the national park  a sleepy small village with dirt roads,  small hotels and a grocery store, and  a few restaurants with [...]

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Tortuguero Canals Rancho Margot While working many years  as a travel agent specializing in Costa Rica, I have had the opportunity to explore most of this small unique country , now on the forefront of  “World Ecotourism” I have my special places which I feel are the most Unique  ecotourism destinations for the nature lover  [...]

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Manuel Antonio National Park Costa Rica. It’s  July and rainy season in Costa Rica. We’re  in the central Pacific region and have heard so much about this park, and are determined to explore it before the rain starts around 1 p.m.  So we set out  early, entering the park at 7:30 a.m., the moment it [...]

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