Costa Rica Culture and Sights

This ritual site from pre-Columbian days is the most important dig in Costa Rica . 20 km north of Turrialba, on the slopes of the volcano of the same name, lies Costa Rica’s most important archeologica...

The largest collection of pre-Columbian gold in San Jose.The Gold Museum has a broad collection of decorative objects made of gold, such as animals, jewelry and religious pieces from the era before ...

Don’t visit the National Theater in San José just for its café…. Begun in 1891, this building, modeled on the Paris Opera, opened with “Faus”t in 1897. With its marble steps and frescos, gilded foyer a...

Costa Rica’s history at a glance. Set on a hill overlooking the capital, Costa Rica’s National Museum was once Fort Bellavista, the headquarters of the country’s one-time army. Its historical collectio...

Watch--very cautiously--the turtles lay eggs in Tortuguero. This park was created in 1975 to protect three species of endangered sea turtles: Atlantic Green, Leatherback and Hawksbill. Between July a...

Progress in ecological conservation. Iinscribed in 1999, it was extended with the addition of a 15,000-ha private property, St Elena. It contains important natural habitats for the conservation of biol...

The Quepos upstream, long stretched peninsula forms a lagoon, in the four rivers flow. The mouth of the estuary, is dense with mangrove forest and home to many water birds. Boat trips from Quepos Mari...

The SUV is the first to Ciudad Neily (35 km). From there it travels about an hour along the Río Corredor and then stands before the entrance of a huge limestone cave system, which so far almost 2000 m...

Between km 1 and 2 of the former railway route (on the bottom of the harbor in the south starts counting at zero) is the oldest part of town with hotels, restaurants, shops. Here you will find a pier ...