City: Costa Rica
Top Things to do in Costa Rica
Top Hotels in Costa Rica
- 1. Shana By The Beach Manuel Antonio
- 2. Tulemar Resort
- 3. Nayara Gardens
- 4. Arenal Manoa Resort Hotel & Hot Springs
- 5. The Westin Reserva Conchal, an All-Inclusive Golf Resort & Spa
- 6. Jardin del Eden Boutique Hotel
- 7. The Royal Corin Thermal Water Spa & Resort
- 8. The Springs Resort and Spa
- 9. Tabacon Thermal Resort & Spa
- 10. Hotel Lomas del Volcan
Top 10 Points of Interest & Landmarks in Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10°N 84°W / 10°N 84°W / 10; -84
Restaurants in Costa Rica
1. Santa teresa de cutris
2. Santa Ana Town Center
3. Pinto Con Arte
4. Cosmic Sister Readings Shop
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 10 reviews
5. Playa Danta
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 84 reviews
Reviewed By MPRM81 - Nashville, United States
This is a great beach! One minute golf cart ride from Casa Chameleon. Nice, shady spots. Beautiful black sand (that is very hot on your feet when it’s not wet) and really pretty red shells.
6. Playa Dantita
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 37 reviews
Reviewed By doodad2020
I spent a lot of time snorkeling and visiting with the fish. As far as snorkeling goes it was pretty good. I also hiked a short loop from the beach which had some really good views. We didn’t want to leave, as the sun set behind the rocks my kids just played and played as my wife and I sat under the shade of the trees hanging out over the sand. We hiked in on the trail and hiked out on the rocks. Highly recommend. If you can walk up a decent but short hill you can manage the hike. Our 7 and 9 yr old made the hike no problem.
7. Iglesia de San Rafael
8. Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto
9. Marina Pez Vela
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 206 reviews
Reviewed By KimberlyB772 - Winthrop Harbor, United States
This is a beautiful marina. We were here for both a fishing trip and a catamaran tour. Very clean and well maintained. Great restaurants and shops, if you are interested.
10. Explore Limon
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 64 reviews
At Explore Limon we specialize in historic tours around the city of Puerto Limon. Our themes are culture, art, gastronomy, music, nature, and others that make up the identity of the city. The tours last 2.5 hours and cover the main monuments, buildings and natural sites classified as Costa Rican National Heritage sites. The routes do not have an established rate, the participant decides at the end of the tour to give the value that they believe is adjusted to the quality of the activity.
Reviewed By Botanicalpainter
You arrive on your cruise ship in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Five minutes’ walk away across the road from the port is Limon City, or Puerto Limon to those unwilling to differentiate between the port area and the commercial/residential district beyond. We wanted to explore Limon City, but not on our own as we had been fed dire warnings about the prevalence of crime there. Was there any truth in these advisories? It’s difficult to say because crime statistics specific to Limon City/Puerto Limon are difficult to find and even then not easy to interpret. Still there’s nothing wrong with being sensible so we booked a guided walking tour through the organisation ‘Explore Limon’. All our arrangements were made by email prior to leaving England. Our guide was Sergio from ‘Explore Limon’ and he arranged to meet us in Parque Vargas by the Gazebo situated just a few minutes from where our cruise ship was berthed. And we certainly felt safe enough in his company. Our immediate concern prior to meeting with Sergio was that our ship was frustratingly late docking and allowing passengers ashore. By the time we disembarked and cleared the port area would he still be at our pre-arranged meeting point? We rushed past the lines of locals and their offers of excursions and fast walked into Parque Vargas. Would Sergio still be there? He was. At first glance Limon City was unprepossessing. Looking around you could not fail to gain the impression that this once thriving city is in a state of long drawn out terminal decline. Yes, it does need some TLC and could certainly benefit from regeneration projects. But what you see first of all is just surface. Sergio is a highly knowledgeable and experienced guide. With him we were able to see beneath this superficiality. He is passionate about this place - his city - and enthusiastic about promoting its virtues of which there are any number to Limon’s visitors. He is an inspiration. Our tour was scheduled to last for two and a half hours, but ended up being nearer three and a half. Sergio invited us to meet any number of Limon residents, who despite the state of the national economy - an enviable GDP growth, but high national debt coupled with high unemployment - seem to maintain a very positive outlook on life. Led by Sergio we visited buildings that had once been part of M.C. Keith’s 19th century United Fruit Company empire at the centre of the banana industry, but now only lightly occupied and no longer concerned with the banana trade. With Sergio interpreting we enjoyed impromptu conversations with local residents whom we met in the course of our tour. Several were street traders operating from stalls, tables on pavements, or just the carrier racks on the backs of their mopeds. A visit to an art gallery established and run by a local fine arts enthusiast made us realise that this gallery is at the centre of a community of talented painters many of them working en plein air. This was followed by a tour of what had once been a vibrant indoor market, but was now clinging tenaciously onto life thanks to the determination of a handful of stall holders. There is a number of historically important buildings standing deserted and no longer maintained. These are listed, or protected, buildings which cannot be demolished and which would also be uneconomic to revitalise and put to new uses. Consequently they are simply left to decay. Our tour ended at the Catedral Sagrado Corazon de Jesus dedicated in 2010 and replacing the previous cathedral so badly damaged in the 1991 earthquake. The architecture is unapologetically Brutalist, which is to say its imposing concrete masses and planes are not easy on the eye. But step inside. The singular most striking feature is the ceiling, which Sergio explained was constructed to resemble the keel of Noah’s ark. In the imaginary waters beneath the keel and set into the exterior walls are fine stained glass windows allowing shafts of colour to permeate the interior space. In its own way the Catedral Sagrado Corazon de Jesus symbolises what we come to understand about Limon City. What you see on the exterior belies what exists within. To appreciate the sense of the place you do need to dive beneath its surface. We thoroughly enjoyed our excursion through Limon City and can highly recommend not only the tour, but also Sergio who brought it to life for us through his narrative featuring the history, economy, geography, politics and social aspects of this interesting place. Our walking tour arrangements were made through [email protected] and there is no fixed fee. At the end of your tour you pay what you feel the experience was worth to you. Our one regret was that having noted the risk of crime we had erred on the side of caution and taken only a modest amount of USD ashore with us. We gave Sergio what we had feeling it was not enough and wishing we could have given him more. He certainly deserved it.
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