Playa Tamarindo, along with Playa Grande and Playa Ventanas, make up Bahía Tamarindo. This beautiful beach features rocky areas and an island (Capitán) at its southern end. Its luxuriant greenery includes pink trumpet trees, tamarinds and coconut palms. Excellent and varied services are offered, allowing visitors to enjoy the beach by day and the nightlife after sunset. Tamarindo is ideal for relaxing, walking, horseback riding and sport-fishing and diving tours, as well as visiting the mangrove swamp and observing nesting sea turtles. Surf the river mouth when the tide is right for some excellent long liney waves, or venture south to find completely desolate point breaks.
With an increase in tourism over the years, delicious restaurants and accommodations of all kinds can be found here. 

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Tortuguero National Park is absolutely most famous for its migration of many different species of sea turtles.   This is one of the only places in the world you can find green turtles, leatherbacks, hawksbills, and loggerheads all laying their eggs in the same location.  With lush tropical greenery and unique canal waterways, Tortuguero can be explored by kayak, boat, or canoe, seeing the incredible Caribbean vegetation reflected in the mirror-like water.  Supporting the local economy is an interesting combination of tourism with fishing and subsistence farming creating a unique mix of "indigenous lifestyle meets tourist".  Here you can experience the flavors of Caribbean cooking, music, and culture.  Being extremely unpopulated, Tortuguero is a perfect relaxation get-away.

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The Caribbean flavor of Puerto Viejo offers many facilities to ensure an enjoyable visit. There are excellent restaurants featuring local and international cuisine, as well as varied nightlife offering traditional music and dancing from the Costa Rican Caribbean.
Stretching from the town of Puerto Viejo to its entrance in the north, this beach is famous for its truly black sand, which owes its color to a high manganese content. Shaped in an attractive curve, Playa Negra features moderate to strong surf. This spot is ideal for sunbathing, swimming and leisurely strolls.
Though small, these beaches are well frequented by ocean lovers. From here to the south, at a place called Punta Pirriplí, is the famous Salsa Brava wave (the Caribbean Pipeline), one of the best surf spots on the entire Caribbean coast and host to international surfing contests. Dive shops and companies offering tours to the reef can also be found in front of these beaches.

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Rising 2,708 meters above sea level, this volcano features two craters with gorgeous views: the main one, at one and a half kilometers in diameter and 300 meters deep; and Laguna Botos, a cold, rain-fed lake that feeds the Río Ángel, a tributary of the Río Sarapiquí that flows into the Caribbean. Currently the volcano emits a great quantity of gases and steam from the various fumaroles located in the crater’s inner cone. Visitor services include information, a park ranger station, trails, restrooms, drinking water, signage, a cafeteria, souvenir shop and several natural viewpoints.
On your way here, you can also visit the coffee plantations and visit La Paz Waterfall Gardens, seeing amazing waterfalls, butterfly gardens, hummingbirds and more.

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