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Costa Rica: a beautiful destiny to enjoy
Beaches
This country offers an impressive variety of beaches and great natural beauty places, along almost 1,230 km of coastlines. Visitors will find from little white sand beaches to big amazing gray sand beaches. Costa Rica has some unbelievable places to rest, enjoy and practice a variety of terrestrial and aquatic sports.
You can feel the sea wind and the waves practicing windsurfing, riding a motorboat or a jet sky. If prefer you can tray diving experiences, the hardest emotions from surfing or maybe you have a preference to live an unforgettable fishing adventure.
Sun, crystal waters and the tropical weather, complement a perfect stay on Costa Rican beaches that offer many comfortable hostage possibilities. Visitors could have the opportunity to watch from impressive natural spectacle like the turtles nesting to unforgettable sunsets as a part of the beautiful scene you can find visiting our beaches.
Thousands of visitors come every year to places like Puerto Viejo, Cahuita, Playa Bonita, Isla Uvita, Playa Cocles and Manzanillo, among others Caribbean beaches.
But also the Pacific Coast has a lot of good places for you to enjoy. Tourists will find incomparable paradises in beaches like Potrero Grande, Langosta, Naranjo Beach, Negra Beach, Nosara, Agujas, Coyote, Mal Pais, Escondida Beach, Jaco, Quepos, Manuel Antonio, Hermosa Beach, Dominical, Pavones, Punta Burica and many others.
Rivers
If you are one of those who are looking for rafting strong emotions then Costa Rica is an unforgettable adventure for you. But also the country offers great places for people who want to enjoy an ecological trip with family or friends through the most beautiful rivers.
More than 800 kilometers of navigable rivers, assure visitors to feel the adrenaline flows downstream in the “Reventazon” or the “Pacuare” which qualified like two of the most difficult all over the world to practice white water rafting, just what experts and amateurs look for.
But if prefer to relax and enjoy nature visitor will not have any problem to find many family options in most of our rivers.
Costa Rica has some specialized companies that offer guide services and little boats to rent.
Ecotourism
Improving the economy but taking car about not to affect environment, Costa Rica has develop a prominent sector of “Ecotourism” a different way for tourists to enjoy Costa Rican natural wonders and learning to take care of and to have respect for environment during their travel.
Nature lovers will appreciate the enormous variety of flora and fauna that characterize Costa Rica.
Some of most visited National Parks are Cahuita, Corcovado, Santa Rosa, Chirripo, Braulio Carrillo, Manuel Antonio, Arenal y Volcán Poas.
How about going downtown?
If you are one of those people who prefer the glamour of the city lights and its friendly and bohemian atmosphere, then you will find in the whole “Gran Área Metropolitana” (Big Metropolitan Area covers San José, Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago) a variety of good restaurants and bars for all tastes.
Costa Rica offers to the visitors from the simplest dishes to the most varied and best international foods. Because we are a “tropical condition country” you will enjoy a huge variety of fruits and vegetables. It will satisfy even the most demanding taste.
Foreign visitors could enjoy famous traditional dishes like the “Gallo Pinto” or a delicious “Olla de Carne”. If you wish, you can choose “Chorreadas”, “Picadillos”, “Gallos” and many more. Also you can try the seafood with a tasty “Ceviche a la tica”.
The Costa Rican coffee is famous all over the World because of its excellent flavor and is definitely a drink that cannot be missing in any home and even in the best restaurants at any time.
You also will find many good places to taste the main foods from the World as italian, french, chinese, japanese, mexican and peruvian cuisine, among others.
If you are visiting our beautiful beaches, we recommend that you to try some of the big variety of seafood from Costa Rica’s coast towns, all of them cooked with our own “style”. Of course visitors also could enjoy the highest quality local and foreigner wines and different drinks.
Would you like to know more about Costa Rican Culture? Then you should go to the theater to enjoy one of the many funny shows we have here. If you prefer to go to the movies then you will find many comfortable places to watch your favorite films in San José.
If you really want to know the “ticos” essence you must go to watch a soccer game, which is considered the most popular sport in Costa Rica; and for some fans is almost a “religion” bay some people.
You will be surprised about the enormous range of sport and cultural activities can be found to your disposal. Most of them have easy access and the places to practice them are located relatively close from your hotel wherever it is in San Jose.
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