Traveling Costa Rica

If you're thinking of traveling to Costa Rica, you no doubt already know about the beautiful beaches, fabulous climate and lush greenery that await you. But, do you know how many things there are to see and do in this tropical paradise? This is no lie in the sand vacation - unless of course you want it to be. So, book your Costa Rica vacation rental and get ready for the time of your life.
What is there to do in Costa Rica?

* White water rafting
* Bird Watching
* Hiking through the rain forrest
* Horseback riding
* Surfing
* Riding dirt bikes and Quads
* Deep sea fishing
* Site seeing
* Scuba diving
* Night life!
* Spas
* Zip Line adventures through the rain forrest

One of the most popular attractions in Costa Rica is the Arenal volcano. One of the ten most active volcanoes in the world, Arenal attracts thousands of visitors each year. Spend the night in a close by Costa Rica villa and wait for the sky to light up from the volcanic activity. The volcano is surrounded by a beautiful lake that has great fishing. It's a must see Costa Rica attraction.
Costa Rica is the ultimate getaway for the water sports enthusiast. The surfing is some of the best in the world. You'll find beach breaks and reef breaks on both the Caribbean and Pacific beaches. Even if you don't surf, you'll get hours of pleasure from sitting on the balcony of one of the lovely Costa Rica beach properties and watching the amazing surfers catch the waves. Some of the best beaches are world famous left break, Pavonnes, the small surf town of Dominical -where the rain forest mountains meet the sea, Nosara and Tamarindo in the North Pacific.
You'll also find great scuba diving in Costa Rica. Staying in one of the many Costa Rica beach properties makes it convenient to hop on a boat and head out to enjoy the wide variety of sea life beneath the surface.
One of the most exciting and unique adventures in Costa Rica is whitewater rafting through the rainforest. There are few places in the world where you can explore deep gorges with tropical rainforest on either side. There are even Costa Rica vacation rentals available in the rainforest itself. There are rapids for every skill level, including class III and IV rapids for the true thrill seeker. Your tour will include a guide who can customize your trip, as well as ensure your safety.
No trip to Costa Rica would be complete without some time on the beach. Book one of the Costa Rica beach properties or other great Costa Rica real estate choices so that you can spend some quality time enjoying the sand and sun. In Costa Rica, you can even choose the color of sand you prefer, as Costa Rica boasts both black and white beaches!
Regardless of your passion, you'll never be short of activities and adventures on a trip to Costa Rica. One visit to this magnificent country will make you want to return again and again.
IT'S HEALTH CARE, NOT JUST VACATIONS.
The stress level of individuals living in large cities increases day after day. This implies the need to find the proper solutions to today’s hectic lifestyle.
Costa Rica, home of natural paradises, has created a perfect combination between these environments and adequate infrastructures, for health and fitness enthusiasts.
Treat yourself to a grand-prize vacation in paradisiacal sites, where food, activities, and beauty treatments aim at making your stay a relaxing and enjoyable experience and, at the same time, improving your lifestyle. All of these elements will help you get rid of stress, muscle pains, fatigue, headaches, and slow down the aging process to make you feel good about yourself.
COME AND GET IT!
While in Costa Rica, you will live in total harmony with its nature and even with its food. There are places that follow the “Everything Bio “trend, which means that their food is prepared only with organic products.
Food undergoes strict quality controls for you to enjoy mood foods, which are healthy, balanced, and detoxified meals.
GET FIT WITH GOOD EXERCISE
Always keeping your health in mind, the hotels offer body fitness activities for their guests, such as exercise routines in gyms to help them get in shape and feel great.
There are also other sports to put your mind at ease so you can redirect your attention to those lazy muscles.
This “Fit” trend is complemented by several options, such as weekend trips or health trips and relaxation sessions in different spas.
HEALTH IS ALL THAT MATTERS
This type of tourism is ideal for persons who need to find relief of any ailment or disease. The general idea is to relieve external symptoms caused by excess work, through stimulation of inner resources for healing.
The country has therapy centers that specialize in treating certain types of ailments such as backaches or mobility impairments.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY
Recently, there has been an increase in physical and personal awareness, and these have become important issues throughout the world. Costa Rica has become part of this trend by offering services that will make you love the way you look and feel. Facials and exfoliating treatments, massages with volcanic mud, yoga, detoxifying baths, and other kinds of massages.
Your health will certainly be improved with all the unique natural benefits Costa Rica has to offer, such as: Thermal waters, facials, and creams made with local medicinal plants.

The country offers first-class facilities, highly trained personnel, and tour operators with special packages. You can receive treatments in private clinics with international quality standards, and internationally renowned doctors trained abroad. Many of these sites specialize in numerous cosmetic procedures and surgery. All of these services will help you look and feel better... What you have always dreamed of!
SQUATTERS
The national parks of Costa Rica had their beginnings in a section of the 1969 Forestry Protection Law. Since then, Costa Rica has established a system of 39 national parks and biological reserves which cover 1,514,683 acres, an equivalent to 25% of its total land area. These parks and reserves protect the nation's most outstanding natural and cultural assets.

Vast and beautiful wilderness areas offer protection to most of the 205 species of mammals, 850 species of birds, 220 species of reptiles and 160 species of amphibians that have been recorded in the country. Also protected are the over 9,000 species of vascular plants that have been identified to date. These plant species account for almost 4% of the total number of plant types known to exist in the world.
The protected areas are also important conservation sites for almost all of the diverse natural habitats of Costa Rica. Some of these habitats are deciduous forests, mangrove swamps, rain forests, herbaceous swamps, cloud forests, oak groves, coral reefs, riperian forests and swamp forests.
Exceptionally important are areas such as nesting beaches for endangered sea turtles, island roosting sites for pelicans, frigate birds, and rare habitat types such as the Middle American dry forest, are protected as well.
The system of national parks and reserves also contains numerous areas of geological interest, from active volcanoes and thermal springs to caves and scenic landscapes with cascading waterfalls. In addition, important historical and archaeological sites found within the park system include battlefields and Pre-Columbian settlements.
Due to Costa Rica's commitment to protecting its remarkable biological richness and diversity, it has become an international center for scientists, naturalists and tourists wishing to study and admire the lush tropical American flora and fauna.
WILDLIFE
The abundance and diversity of Costa Rica's wildlife, another word on the country's amazing avian and animal wealth. Costa Rica has long been famous among serious birdwatchers, but many people who would never consider the activity at home become quickly interested in the country's spectacular diversity of birds. With 848 species of birds - more than in all of North America and Mexico - packed into an area half the size of

Kentucky, it's hard not to become enthused about the variety of feathered creatures one encounters in Costa Rica.
There are a dazzling 57 species of hummingbirds and their flower flitting relatives, 16 different species of parrots, several species of toucans and their cousins, colorful trogons and motmots and spectacularly colorful creatures like the scarlet macaw and the resplendent quetzal, which many consider the most beautiful bird in the world. One of the reasons for this extraordinary avian wealth is the country's great variety of habitats: rain forests, mangrove swamps, beaches, cloud forests, rivers, lakes... the list goes on. And any two of these ecosystems, with their resident bird species, are often only a short distance apart.
The coasts, especially the Pacific, are alive with seabirds. It's easy to spot pelicans, terns sandpipers and magnificent frigatebirds. Wetlands are home to an even more impressive variety, including long-legged waders like the heron, ibis, spoonbill and the country's largest bird: the jabiru stork. Rain forests harbor an even greater variety, ranging from tiny hummingbirds to the bulky guans and curassows. The melodic oropendolas are common in many parts, and their colonies of hanging nests can be spotted in the crowns of large trees. But the star attractions are the noisy parrots, parakeets and toucans, and especially the spectacular scarlet macaws, which can be seen in Carara Biological Reserve and Corcovado National Park.
Though the bird population is impressive, there are lots of other exciting and interesting animals to be found in Costa Rica. The country is home for 237 species of mammals, 361 species of reptiles and amphibians, 10 percent of the world's butterfly species and more types of insects than the biologist can count.
The most exotic rainforest creatures are probably the big mammals, like the jaguar and tapir, but those animals are so rare a-and secretive that only the luckiest tourists ever catch a glimpse of them. But there is plenty out there that's not too tough to see... Monkeys are among the most entertaining animals in the forest, and Costa Rica has four species, of which you're bound to spot a few: the noisy howler, the rambunctious spider, the cute capuchin, and the adorable squirrel monkey, which is only found in Manuel Antonio and Corcovado National Parks.
Other mammals include the armadillo, which looks like a tiny tank, the agouti and paca, two terrier sized jungle rodents, a-and two types of anteaters. The most impressive lizards are the crocodiles, which can grow as long as 15 feet. However, as massive as the crocs may be, the largest reptile in the world is the leatherback sea turtle, which nests on Playa Grande and on others beaches at night.

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