Spectacular Wildlife from Costa Rica: “The Best Eco-Destination”

Costa Rica is a small but remarkable country full of green beauty, awesome nature and wonderful beaches, if there is one place on Earth you should travel to for an eco-experience, it’s Costa Rica: “The Best Eco-Destination”.

Hosting more than 600 beaches, most of them recognized all over the world, even by celebrities and famous influencers.

This Eco-Destination host more than 5% of all the world´s biodiversity, 18% of the world´s butterfly species, more than 25 types of whales and dolphins, beautiful and interesting mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, especially turtles from all sizes.

If you are a wildlife lover, Costa Rica is a must to visit, it is the top wildlife spot and eco-destination.

You find wildlife almost anywhere, and 25% of it, is preserved and protected in Wild Life Refuges or Sanctuaries.

Pacific Coast National Wildlife Refuges

Around the Pacific Coast, you´ll find spectacular beaches with some of the best surf breaks in the world.

So, the good news is that whenever you come to visit the beach to practice activities such as; yoga, surf, free-diving, you can also enjoy beautiful and interesting samples of wildlife from the zone.

“Area de Conservación Pacífico Central”

Full of habitats and resident plants, trees, birds, insects, and wildlife.

Playa Hermosa Beach is an important and popular beach part of this eco-destination.

It has a smooth tan and gray sand stretching straight, unbroken for miles until it disappears into the mist thrown up by the huge relentless waves.

It’s backed by a clear cut, flat grassy plain, pasture, rice paddies, and wetlands.

It looks golden and tan in the dry season and a little lime green during the rainy season.

The Best Eco-Destination with the best sunsets in the country, and the best Spanish School located here, that´s why we called it: “Perfect Sunset School”.

You visit us to enjoy the beach and so many other activities, but, if you are an eco-tourist who likes nature and wildlife, you´ll fall in love with this place.

Wildlife, Beautiful and Exotic

Nature here is accessible and unequaled, even after all these years Costa Rica is still known as The eco-destination.

You´ll see tons of monkeys, sea turtles, humpback whales off the coast, colorful Scarlet Macaws in the almond trees, feathered friends of all kinds, and if you’re lucky – you might even spot a puma or margay on the trail.

In the jungles or at the beach, you’ll find huge flocks of scarlet macaws.

They are commonly seen eating along with the beach almond trees, which cover all the entire length of the refuge.

Some Cattle egrets, wood storks, white ibis, great egrets, roseate spoonbills, and snowy egrets all share the shrinking lagoon during the dry season.

Little Fauna

Costa Rica wildlife is often of the smaller with a vast variety such as snakes, poisonous frogs, spiders, and more.

Some are gorgeous and colorful, harmless and interesting to see up close.

For example; stick bugs that look like very small tree twigs.

The Green Hooded Mantis which is so wild and other-worldly with a super-wide coat of green armor.

Some are a little dangerous like the brown and black scorpion, which will let you have it with a nasty sting if you step on them, and the poisonous frog.

But, this accident is not so common, it just happens out of the blue if you are not careful.

Coatis which are similar to raccoons are funny foragers belonging to this Eco-Destination, and you’ll find them pretty much everywhere in Costa Rica on the prowl.

You’ll see colorful toucans of all colors and sizes in Costa Rica.

You´ll see them around the fruit trees in La Selva and Monteverde, Carara National Park, the Caribbean coast from Tortuguero down to Puerto Viejo, along the Pacific coast and especially in the Osa Peninsula.