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Rest in Costa Rica

the Most attractive to the majority of tourists are dazzling diverse beaches of Costa Rica. At the Caribbean coast it is drawn through on how much the sight the sandy tapes pressed between ocean and a green wall of coconut palms suffices. Sometimes they interrupt sections of the died off coral reefs. On Pacific ocean - assemblage of the small sandy bays abjointed from each other by petrous rows and surrounded with a tropical vegetation on slopes of mounts rising to ocean.

Except purely natural diversity beaches of Costa Rica involve with a high level of represented services for all tastes. There are the beaches transformed into small resort small towns, with a complete panel of restaurants, night clubs, discos. It is possible to be collected far away from noise and people and with complete comfort to have a rest in a lonely private residence or a bungalow with the section of a beach, but not in the distance from the civilisation centre. Always to services and the complete list of beach entertainments: sun decks, surfing, water motorcycles and skis, skin diving and flotation in reefs, fishing, rolling on horses, walks on yachts. Thanks to a high surf the coast of Costa Rica is considered one of the best in the world for surfing. The most well-known and most attent beaches are had on peninsula Nikojja.

In provinces Guanakaste (peninsula Nikojja) beaches (in Spanish plajja) Affairs Koko, Ermoza, the Flamingo, Tamarindo, the Grandee (here marine turtles postpone eggs), Nozara, Montezuma, Karillo are most known.

In the south of Pacific coast exists two large resort places - Hako and Punta Leon. First is approximately at two o'clock driving from San Jose. Manuel Antonio's beaches, Dominikal, Zankudo Pavones (almost on boundary line with Panama) will involve fans of a solitude.

The Atlantic coast is famous for beaches portete and Bonita (about a city the Lemon), and also the framed coconut palms beaches Kokles, Punta, Kahuita, Puerto Vijeho. Along a southern part of coast there are remarkable conditions for a scuba diving among reefs.

the Considerable quantity of deposits and a mountain landform have created conditions for formation of assemblage of the sweeping rivers on all country. Various aspects of rest on the rivers are granted tourists and all interested persons. It is possible to float simply on the river, admiring neighbouring views of tropical wood and with comfort observing for assemblage of auks, monkeys, crocodiles, terrapins and butterflies. Among the most popular and interesting itineraries - a waterway on the canal along the Caribbean coast, on the rivers Sarapiki and San Juan. In the north of the country it is possible to make fascinating travel which will occupy some days, on river system along boundary line from Nicaragua - practically from Pacific coast to a city the Lemon on Caribbean sea.

But there is also other possibility to use numerous small rivers for pleasure reception. However, this mean is bound also to reception of acute sensations, though and without risk for life. It is a question of an alloy on mountain small rivers (rafting). In San Jose it is easy to purchase the permit on all the day, including delivery to the river and anatropicly. Fans to test itself supply with all necessary stock for a safety adventure, they the river Dzheneral approaches for those who seriously takes a great interest rafting. For family, quieter rest when it is possible to devote more attention not speeds of an alloy, and to places of interest of shores, is better the itinerary on the river Korobisi will approach.

Besides river itineraries horse walks, the present marine fishing, the pedestrian walks on wood tracks, lifting on a ropeway through tropical wood on a burning mountain apex, bicycle itineraries and many other things are possible. For example, it is possible to meet process growings and coffee effectings (even there is a special museum of coffee in small town Barva de Eredia) or to visit on a banana plantation and to learn all subtleties of cultivation of this known and all liked fruit.