Adventure and the outdoors

With a marine surface that is 10 times bigger than the terrestrial and an immense biodiversity, Costa Rica is the perfect place for beach and water-sports enthusiasts. 

The majority of these places belong to wildlife protected areas around the country, such as the famous Cocos Island National Park, also a World Heritage Site, and considered one of the world’s best destinations for advanced scuba diving.

Costa Rica is also one of the best places in the world to surf, not by chance it is the third most popular destination for this sport after Hawaii and Indonesia. The reasons are simple: beaches with excellent year-round waves, pleasant weather, warm water, friendly people and reasonable prices. 

And for something a bit different, make you sure you try a canopy adventure, allowing you to feel like a monkey traveling at full speed throughout the rainforest. Born in Costa Rica in the 90s, the canopy tour is one of the best ways to explore the richness of the canopy, where the biggest amount of the forest´s biodiversity is found.

Wildlife and plants

Although the country is small and it covers only 0.03 % of the surface of the globe, it proudly shelters a 5% of the existing biodiversity in the entire world. 25.58 % of the country is composed of conservation and natural protected territory. Tortuguero National Park is certainly worth a visit. It is a place where the exuberance of natural wildlife and visitors become one and where the water is a giant mirror reflecting the lush foliage all around.