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We recommend Tenorio National Park to see the Rio Celeste and its turquoise waters. A beautiful walk through humid tropical forest leads first to the waterfalls, then to the pools. Following a trail from the park entrance, you'll find a fine path of around 3 hours that leads to the Tenideros, where the river takes on its turquoise-blue colour as it meets a stream. Other “bubbling” phenomena ...

The Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge is a unique territory, thanks to the characteristics it presents, where you will truly feel fortunate to be.It is a mixed refuge, protecting 5,000 hectares of land and 4,500 hectares of sea, covering 70% of the southern Caribbean territory of Costa Rica, located between Puerto Limon and Sixaola, a town on the border with Panama. 

Barely an hour from the capital, Poás volcano rises to 2,700m. It is made up of three main craters. The largest, 1.5 km in diameter, is one of the biggest in the world, reaching a depth of 300m. The crater holds an acid lake with a pH below 1, making it one of the most acidic lakes on the planet. Sulphurous fumaroles are the volcano's main emissions, some rising hundreds of metres into the air. ...