Natural places of interest of Costa Rica

Active volcanoes (Irazu, poas, Arenal, Rinkon de la Vijeha, etc.), had near to large settlements, practically all are easily accessible on good roads, up to apexes. Burning mountain Arenal makes the greatest impression at night when eruptions light up its neighbourhoods. In craters of many burning mountains loches are had. Around burning mountain Rinkon de la Vijeha it is possible to see hot wells and geysers.

Desert islands the Coco, Kano, the Negrito and Los Paharos are transformed into reservations. Tourists are involved with a solitude, the cleanest water, beaches, possibility of fishing and a scuba diving, acquaintance to huge colonys of auks, palm groves and tropical woods.

Caves Barra Honda represent branched system of underground transitions and the halls, consisting of 19  caves known as of today. Depth of caves is various, but the deepest leaves deep into on 240  m. In a cave are covered by stalagmites, stalactites, cave pearls, the spark dens and other surprising forms of mineral educations. Caves are in terrain of national park Barra Honda, in 22  km from the city of Nikojja.

All in the country 74 natural guarded terrains which switch on various sections of the most typical landscapes (listopadnye tropical woods, marsh mangrove family, rain-forests, high-mountainous foggy woods, etc.), historical places and archaeological monuments (for example, ancient American Indian settlements), and also the most picturesque installations - cataracts, beaches, mountain and river valleys. As a whole guarded natural terrains occupy 25 % of the square of the country.

Existing parks can practically fulfil all tastes. The interested person to meet surprising ecosystems of tropical wood more close and its inhabitants it is necessary to attend national parks Tapanti, hitoj Serere, Guanakaste. Fans of entomology and observations over auks will not miss a case to attend rezervat Lomas Barbudal. Preferring beaches and neritic landscapes parks Kahuita will attract, Gandoka-Manzanillo and Barra has put Colorado at the Atlantic coast and Antonio's parks Manuel, Kabo Blanko and Ballena at Pacific coast. Who is attracted with secrets of tropical marshes and the turtle beaches - should glance to national park Tortugero in the north of the Atlantic coast. For the interested history of the country and crop of the ancient American Indian people openly for access a place of the most significant in the country of archeological excavations on a slope of burning mountain Turrialba. Here it is possible to see ruins of the settlements based still for 500  years B.C. and worrying blossoming in the season between VII and XIV centuries of our era. And even after visitation of all these terrains still there will be some tens surprising regions where it is possible to meet the nature and inhabitants of Costa Rica.