A travel guide to Puntarenas, home to brilliant sunsets, fresh seafood, charming architecture, and an oceanfront boardwalk. A recent makeover has turned this lackluster port town into a favorite weekend getaway, especially among Central Valley residents seeking fun in the sun.
The best of Costa Rica s spectacular and varied destinations. Highlights include beaches, cloud forests, indigenous reserves, national parks and refuges, rainforests, tropical dry forests, and volcanoes.
Flocks of scarlet macaws swarm the palm trees in search of fruit inside Carara National Park; a crucial sanctuary for wildlife in the increasingly developed area around Jaco. The 13,000-acre park encompasses a transitional forest of both dry and tropical rainforest.