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The resort is located in a private bay at the Gulf of Papagayo, Guanacaste. Fiesta Resort and Casino All-Inclusive is approximately 55 miles from San Jose. The hotel is situated on one of Costa Rica’s most stunning and unusual black sand beaches.

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Suenos Marriott beach and golf resort is located near Jaco in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Suenos Marriott have an impressive colonial design with a 200 slip yacht marina and 18 hole championship golf course, Marriott five star resort, Marina Village shops, restaurants, bakery, and european hair salon. Los Suenos offers incredible views of Herradura bay from the slopes on the east side of the resort.

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This spectacular villa is located in the central Pacific area of Costa Rica (Central America) near the Manuel Antonio National Park, Quepos. First of all to be build such a holiday house it was necessary to be cleared the area of trees, but when the master project was done, it was clearly seen, no need to cut any tree that was located on the property, because of the precise structure of the villa.

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Although Costa Rica is geographically a small country, there are an endless number of places to see. Depending on your interests, you can bask in the sun at any one of the more than 50 beaches, visit some of the more than 160 parks, reserves and conservation areas, or visit one of the most active volcanoes in the world.

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Eighty percent of the exported bananas in the world are grown in Latin America (Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia). A local farmer has no other alternative than to sell for a price offered by the multinational company. When working conditions and ecology is in question, these companies (Dole Food, Chiquita,…) have nothing to do with it the plantations are not theirs, they are only buyers.

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Costa Rica’s Arenal National Park has the most active volcano in the country. It was believed to be dormant until a major eruption in 1968. The park is next to the country’s largest hydroelectric project, the Arenal Lake Dam. The most characteristic feature of this national park is the impressive and majestic Arenal Volcano, an almost perfect active cone 1,633 meters high, whose regular eruptions offer one of the most extraordinary and awe inspiring natural sights in Costa Rica.

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Finca Rosa Blanca Country Inn is situated above the beautiful Central Valley of Costa Rica. The signature architecture is whimsical and unique. Perhaps best described as a combination of the architectural styles of Gaudi and Frank Lloyd Wright, Finca Rosa Blanca Country Inn is one of Costa Rica’s preeminent boutique properties. Includes lustrous hardwood accents, vivid jungle murals painted by talented local artisans, pre-Columbian artifacts, contemporary paintings and wood sculptures, beautiful weaving and a host of unique furnishings and art objects.

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This Central American country lies between Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south. Costa Rica is an exotic vacation destination that has secluded white sand beaches. On the tour, you get to visit the lush rain forests and pristine beaches. While on a trip to Costa Rica, you can either go in for a rain forest canopy tour, whitewater rafting or can just relax at the beach. The Tortuguero National Park is 51,870 acres and one of the last large areas of tropical rain forest in Central America. Monkeys, storks, and river otters can often be seen along the water in addition to more than 300 species of birds.

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Volcan Irazu, Costa Rica’s National Park, is the right place to have a walk along it’s slopes and see how tons of ashes are falling from the sky. You will probvably need an umbrella in order to avoid getting dirty but the feeling is awsome.

The Irazu Volcano (in Spanish Volcán Irazú) is an active volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera Central close to the city of Cartago. Its name is believed to be a corruption of Iztarú, which was the name of an indigenous village on the flanks of the volcano. In Costa Rica it is known by the name of “Colossus” due to the catastrophes that it has provoked in the past. Irazu has erupted frequently in historical times—at least 23 times since its first well-recorded eruption in 1723. Its most famous recent eruption began in 1963 and continued until 1965. It began on the day US President John F. Kennedy began a state visit to Costa Rica and showered the capital San Jose and much of the central highlands of Costa Rica with ash.

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The park is located in the pacific coast, in the Peninsula de Osa, in the province of Puntarenas. Corcovado is located in the life zone that correspond to the very humid Tropical forest in the south pacific of Costa Rica and you can be sure that no other wild area in the country protects plants and animal as this park. This wild area is considered an excellent life laboratory, in which you can study the structure and function of the tropical ecosystems and the relationship between them.

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