Costa Rica Travel Guide

Costa Rica tours lead you a little off the beaten path, but one well worth the time, is the Guanacaste. This part of Costa Rica is ranching territory where the rainforest is nonexistent. Ranches double as hotels, and most offer horseback tours of the area allowing you to participate in the regions culture. In the dry season, from this vantage point, it is easy to spot monkeys, pot-bellied iguanas, birds, and even an occasional boa constrictor. For a different look head to the Rincon de la Vieja where there are bubbling pools of mud and active steam vents shadowed by the towering mist shrouded volcano.

Travel to Tortuguero National Park in northeast Costa Rica to watch the huge sea turtles lay their eggs. One of the most important nesting sites in the Caribbean, Costa Rica tours will send a guide to accompany visitors to the site. As your eyes adjust to the darkness you will be able to see that the nesting ground is full of turtles. The guide will not allow you to get too close, but you will be able to see their eyes, and note the trance like state they assume when they lay their eggs. The turtles go to great lengths to lay their eggs, and yet only one turtle out of five thousand eggs will survive to adult hood.

Another National Park that should be included on Costa Rica tours list is Corcovado. Corcovado encompasses thirteen ecosystems including lowland rainforests, mangrove swamps, marine and coastal habitats, highland cloud forests, and lagoons. The largest macaw population in Central America resides here. Trekking through the park is an arduous, but rewarding tour. Humidity stands at one hundred percent. There are rivers to cross, beaches to walk only at low tide, and bushmaster snakes slinking through the woods.

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