Costa Rica offers to its visitors a wide selection of adventure activities.

DIVING

Both coasts offer many reefs and rock formations to attract your attention, along with jacks, moray eels, sharks, eagle rays, and puffer fish. Visibility ranges from twenty to eighty feet. Caño Negro Island off the southwest coast is known for huge schools of fish, rocky corals and undersea canyons. Experts will also want to make the long ocean trip to Cocos Island, touted by Jacques Cousteau as one of the finest deep-water dive sites in the world.

 

SPORT FISHING

Costa Rica's mountain streams are stocked with trout. Lake Arenal has rainbow bass. Along the Pacific coast anglers find some of the best deep-sea and in-shore fishing in the world, with record numbers of sailfish and marlin. Roosterfish, mahi-mahi, yellow-fin tuna, grouper and wahoo are also abundant. Along the northern Caribbean coast, there is great snook and tarpon fishing to be found in the Tortugero Canals and the area around Barra del Colorado.

 

HORSEBACK RIDING

Horse lovers will have ample opportunity to gallop down the coast, or trek to a rainforest waterfall.

 

CAMPING

Spend your whole vacation under the stars, with beach-fire, coconuts, or just one night or two next to a remote surf break.

 

ECOTOURS

Volcanoes

• Costa Rica has nine active volcanoes. Visiting each is a uniquely different experience. In the crater of Poás visitors can see a boiling sulfurous lime green lake. Arenal is Costa Rica's most active volcano. Here, you can relax in hotsprings, surrounded by tropical flowers and watch the nightly eruptions sending rivers of red molten lava down the mountain as the earth around you rumbles and shakes.

Waterfalls

• Every where you go in Costa Rica you will find waterfalls. Some come crashing down onto the beach. Others are full day treks into the jungle. All are breathtaking.

Rainforests

• Step into any of Costa Rica's rainforests and you will feel like you are stepping back a millenium in time. Let the songs of birds, poison dart frogs, and millions of jungle creatures pull you in, and your humanly burdens will slip away. Whether you go for an hour walk, or a three-day backpacking trek, you will see wildlife that you may not have known exists.