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Sport fishing in Costa Rica offers you what you are looking for. Sport fishing in Costa Rica is defined by several unique attributes, among them, the perfect weather, and the opportunity to choose from small mountain lakes, streams or rivers, to the beautiful and unique Caribbean or Pacific Coasts. Costa Rica is one of the most popular destinations for sport fishing. You will encounter a wide variety of fish, all in a relatively small area. You can go from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, to the Pacific coast in less than one day. Sport fishing is all about being able to go to the right spot where the right weather awaits you and the assortment of fish is unique.

According to sport fishing fans, Costa Rica is the second best sport-fishing destination in the world. It doesn’t matter where you choose to go sport fishing in Costa Rica, you will always find sport fishing companies that will organize or customized your fishing trip. You can select the sport fishing activity you want according to your budget, as there are all sort of different packages and customized tours for sport fishing in Costa Rica. In seashore towns you can either book a high-organized all-inclusive tour with a sport fishing company or you can just customize it with a local from the area to take you out on his boat. Locals are very experience as they live from the sea as fishermen.

In Costa Rica Marlin and Sailfish are very popular in deep-water sport fishing. You will encounter them approximately four miles offshore. Costa Rica Tarpon fishing is the best. You will encounter these silver fish at the Caribbean side of the country in Barra del Colorado. These are some of the fish among the wide variety of fish you may encounter while sport fishing in Costa Rica: black drum, black grouper, black sea bass, bluefish, cobia, flounder, gag grouper, gray snapper, jack crevalle, king mackerel, lady fish, permit, pompano, sheepshead, snook, Spanish mackerel, tarpon, trout, sailfish, yellow fin tuna, wahoo, blue marlin, yellow fin grouper, mutton snapper, bone fish, dolphin, American shad, white marlin, yellow tail snapper, greater amberjack, sword fish, red snapper and roosterfish. No doubt, sport fishing in Costa Rica is what you are looking for.

There is no better place for bird watching than Costa Rica. Costa Rica offers you one of the greatest varieties worldwide of bird watching in a relative small area. Bird watching in Costa Rica goes from sea level habitats to mountain habitats up to 12000 meters, where your bird watching experience will be fully satisfied.

In Costa Rica there are 878 species recorded of birds, which makes the birding activity for bird watching unique. You can go from the Caribbean foothills and the cloud forest highlands of Talamanca to the Monteverde area and Central Pacific Lowlands. But there is much more Costa Rica offers for bird watching, also the Central Valley highlands and Caribbean lowlands as well as the Southern Pacific highlands, lowland rainforest and seashore bird watching.

Costa Rica holds one tenth of the world’s total of bird’s species. Bird watching is relatively easy as you can see dozens of birds in one day, depending on your location, season and your good skills. Costa Rica is a truly paradise when it comes to bird watching. You can find all kind of specialized tours or you can just rent a car and travel on your own around the country spotting as many birds as you can imagine on your way through the roads. If you are a specialist in bird watching or an amateur, this is the country to go, Costa Rica.

It is said that the aerial tram was designed by the same rainforest scientist that invented the canopy system back in 1974 and ten years later came up with the drafts of an Automated Web for Canopy Exploration and in 1992 began constructing the Rainforest Aerial Tram in Costa Rica. The Aerial Tram is located a few meters past the northeastern exit from Braulio Carrillo National Park if you come from San Jose. The Rainforest Aerial Tram provides you with a view of the Costa Rica Rainforest from the top and at a speed in which you are able to see details with time. The Rainforest Aerial Tram takes about 40 minutes each way, it travels a distance of a little more than two and a half kilometer trail and it has about 22 aerial cars that take five passengers and one guide. The great thing about this amazing Rainforest Aerial Tram is that it was placed right in the middle of the lush rainforest with almost any damage to it. 250 000 kilograms of construction material were carried in on foot. Twelve towers were helicoptered to the area using the Nicaragua Air Force and placed directly in the spot required without disturbing much the natural surroundings. Rainforest Aerial Tram is surrounded by a 400 hectare reserve. There is also a guided one tour hike in the natural reserve that surrounds the Rainforest Aerial Tram and is also very pleasant to do. As in almost any wildlife area in Costa Rica large mammals are really hard to spot and birds are the easiest species that can be spotted, the same happens in the areas surrounding the Rainforest Aerial Tram in Braulio Carrillo. Still, if you are lucky you might have a chance to sight a large mammal in the dense Costa Rica Rainforest. And as usual it is recommended to do the Rainforest Aerial Tram in the morning, to avoid the rain, still be prepared for rain at any given time of the day.