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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Cahuita
Cahuita National Park
Located 110 miles away from San Jose, south of the Cahuita Town is the popular Cahuita National Park. Cahuita National Park is a little less popular than Manuel Antonio Park but still receives a great amount of visitors each year. With a total of 2635 acres of land and sea protected areas, Cahuita [...]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Gandoca Manzanillo
Gandoca Manzanillo
Manzanillo Gandoca wildlife national reserve found in the Costa Rica Caribbean offers a great opportunity to visit a humid tropical rainforest, the only natural and intact mangrove oyster bed found in the Costa Rica Caribbean, the only primary lowland rainforest wetland in its region, the only orey and jolillo palm swamp in Costa Rica, [...]
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Barra del Colorado
Barra del Colorado
Barra del Colorado National Wildlife Reserve of Fauna is located next to the southern end of Tortuguero National Park (actually Barra del Colorado is pretty much an extension of Tortuguerno National Park) close to the Nicaragua border; bordered by the San Juan River by the north and on the east bordered by the [...]
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Barra Honda
Barra Honda National Park
Do you like climbing and will like to see one of Costa Rica one of kind natural destination? Then you have to visit Barra Honda National Park caves. This peculiar system of about 40 caves lies in the northern part of Costa Rica between Nicoya and the mouth of Tempisque River. Barra [...]
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Nosara
Nosara Beach in Guanacaste is a remote paradise of black sand beach 34 miles southwest of Nicoya, about 165 miles away from San Jose. Nosara Beach, along with the Guiones Beach, Pelada Beach, and Ostional Beach, make up the area of Ostional Wildlife Reserve. One of the main characteristics that make Nosara [...]
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Ostional
Ostional Wildlife Refuge
Ostional Wildlife Reserve is a small and narrow coastal reserve of 180 acres that includes the Ostional Beach, Nosara Beach, Nosara River, and Nosara Village. Ostional Wildlife Reserve was founded to protect the olive ridley sea turtles, locally known as the Lora Turtle, which nests annually on Ostional Beach. The most important [...]