COSTA RICA is worlds away from your work space. We're talking climbing volcanoes, rafting tropical whitewater streams, surfing waves on two completely diverse coasts, looking at fantastic untamed life… the rundown goes on. What's more, shockingly better — you don't need to spend a lifetime in the work space to bear to tackle these things to do in Costa Rica.
1. Trekking the magma fields of Volcán Arenal
Among the numerous pictures that spring to mind when you arrange a visit to Costa Rica, the cone-formed stratovolcano hauled straight out of a middle school science classroom is presumably up there. A 2.5-hour drive or transport ride northwest of San José and its global airplane terminal, Volcán Arenal is anything but difficult to get to, and its entryway town — La Fortuna — is the prettiest around, with no deficiency of administrators prepared to compose a mixed bag of treks and bicycle rides that exploit the spring of gushing lava.
You can't go to the highest point of Arenal, yet treks skirt its slants while in transit to Cerro Chato, the pit of a close-by well of lava.
2. Whitewater rafting the Sarapiquí River
An additional two-hour trip, this time north and somewhat east from San José, takes you to thick rainforest where there's sufficient creature and creepy crawly life to put any zoo to disgrace. Whitewater rafting along this San Juan tributary offers the best blend of enterprise and serenity as you plunge over towering rapids to level water where howler and white-confronted monkeys swing through the trees on either shore.
In case you're new to rafting, don't stress — nothing on this stream goes past a class IV fast outside of a bizarrely hard rain. Hope to pay $50 or more for a half-day trip.
3. Kayaking the mangroves of Golfo Dulce
Near the fringe with Panama, the Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica is one of — if not the — most out of control corners of the nation, with an expected 2.5% of the whole world's biodiversity dug in a zone only 35 miles in length and 20 miles wide. It's likewise the most loved tropical rainforest of the late Álvaro Ugalde (one of the establishing fathers of Costa Rica's incredibly famous national parks framework).
While climbing is without inquiry a top movement in these parts, another approach to investigate is by kayak in the Golfo Dulce. Paddle along the smooth waters of the "sweet bay" and into the mangroves, where on a fortunate of reckoning you can detect each of the four of Costa Rica's local monkey species — carablanca (white-confronted), aullador (howler), araña (creepy crawly), and ardilla (squirrel). Brilliantly hued macaws screeching their best Marge Simpson mimic are additionally in abundance, with the intermittent caiman jabbing its eyes out of the water.
4. Mountain biking the Ruta de los Conquistadores
In the event that you've known about this course some time recently, it's presumable as a section on a "best bicycle rides on the planet" list. It generally takes after the wilderness trek of the first Spanish conquistadors who walked their way crosswise over Costa Rica from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Every year there's a sorted out ride — the 2015 course (November 5-7) will run give or take 250km more than three days from Playa Herradura on the Pacific coast to Playa Bonita, close to the Caribbean city of Limón.
Tuning in the official occasion is no shabby enterprise (the fundamental bundle this year costs $1,700). In any case, it's turned out to be more basic for people or gatherings to pedal the course all alone, riding for the sheer feeling of achievement and the experience of seeing the unlimited differences of Costa Rica by bicycle.
