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Costa Rica Travel Guide: Reviews, photos, & videos
Half the size of Kentucky, Costa Rica alone accounts for three percent of the world’s bio diversity, which means a lot of birds that’ll make you flip back and forth through your bird-watcher’s guide and a whole lot of animals you’d be hard-pressed naming in English. Costa Rica has the greatest variety of plant species on earth, according to the World Resources Institute, along with 615 separate bird and mammal species that will have you play Name That Monkey all day long. Explore the dense forests of Manuel Antonio and Corcovado national parks. Cross the open savannahs where sabaneros, Costa Rican cowboys, tend their herds. Watch the theater of nine active volcanoes, among them Arenal, that growl and glow with earth’s fire. Discover vast expanses of wetlands, reminiscent of the Everglades, where troops of Howler monkeys cling to ceiba trees and pumas and jaguars loom below. Swing like Tarzan from one tree top platform to the next, connected to a steel cable, on a zip line canopy ride. Explore the ocean life, with its rainbow of fishes and thousands of olive-colored sea turtles.
