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Palo Verde National Park and Wild Life Refuge

Costa Rica has got many national parks and Palo Verde is one of the most important. This park protects forested areas as well as wide marshland between the Tempisque and Bebedero rivers in Guanacaste. The Park is located in middle of the Tempisque Basin next to the mouth of the Tempisque River. The great density and variety of bird species was the first reason that the park was created.

The area is composed of evergreen tropical dry forest, brackish and water wetlands, mangrove swamps and the tidal estuarine ecosystem of the Tempisque River.

The Palo Verde Ranger Station is open for visitosr from 8 to twilight and has potable water and restrooms. There are also hiking trails and scenic overlooks throughout the tropical dry forest of the park.

“Las Baulas” National Marine Park

This Park is located on the Pacific coast near “Tamarindo” a little town at west of Costa Rica. Your main attraction is the largest nesting colony of leatherback sea turtles (baulas) on the Pacific of Costa Rica. With a population whose size are around 800 female turtles who nesting here every year. The nesting season is around April. The turtles can measure over 2 m and weigh over 700 Kg.

The beaches of “Playa Grande”, “Playa Ventana” and  “Playa Langosta” compose this park in where there are so  much mangroves , the mangrove swamp covers around 440 Ha and  the red mangrove is the commonest .The most common mammals are common racon , white coati, and howler monkey.
If you want to visit the park, the ranger station at Playa Grande opens from 8:00. to 16; guided bilingual tours are available at the park. The number of visitors per day is limited.

Playa Grande

Playa Grande is a  amazing beach at west of Costa Rica in the Pacific coast which is part of the national park “Las Baulas”. In the beach there are many sea turtles which come to the beach attracted for the peace and the clear blue sea.

During the turtle nesting season (from October to May) Playa Grande only is opened to public in the mornings.
At nights the beach is watched by patrols of police that have to protect the turtles’ eggs. That is necessary because there are any tourists and poachers; who collect these eggs; since any people believe wrongly that they have aphrodisiacs properties.

But if you are not interested by the animal life, then you can take your surf board, go to the beach and doing surfing until twilight. Playa Grande have magnified waves for its consistency and good mix of lefts and rights; which are amongst the best of the country. Nevertheless the north area of the beach is enough quiet to do swimming; if you prefer.

There are not a great number of  hotels in the place because Playa Grande is into the national park Las Baulas, and arrive to the beach is very difficult but the beach is  worth the trouble.

Catalina Island

Scuba diving in Isla Catalina is an unforgettable experience. The variety of species is very impressive. In the Sea that surrounds the Island you can find from little tube blennies to the giant manta ray. For arrive to the Island you have to travel by boat during one hour. During the trip you could see sea turtles, dolphins and whales.

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