Dear All,
Thanks for all you input into this forum, it's been a great help in my preliminary research, and has been wonderful for trips past.
We are doing a rather quick visit to Costa Rica around New Years. We'd love to head to the coast (somewhere), and stay at a nice beach spot, or any spot with views of the ocean. The daytime will be spent birding. We will probably hire a guide for at least two of the days.
So my question is: where would be a good place to make our coastal home base? Our trip is short, so we need it to be within a few hours of the airport (probably SJO?). Then all we want are great birding and those classic Costa Rica settings and views. No particular target birds, as most all of them will be new.
Thinking of perhaps somewhere near Carara National Park. What about Manuel Antonio? We'd also be up for heading East.
If you had four days in Costa Rica, where would you go to bird and beach?
Thanks for any input you have!
Conor
Thanks for all you input into this forum, it's been a great help in my preliminary research, and has been wonderful for trips past.
We are doing a rather quick visit to Costa Rica around New Years. We'd love to head to the coast (somewhere), and stay at a nice beach spot, or any spot with views of the ocean. The daytime will be spent birding. We will probably hire a guide for at least two of the days.
So my question is: where would be a good place to make our coastal home base? Our trip is short, so we need it to be within a few hours of the airport (probably SJO?). Then all we want are great birding and those classic Costa Rica settings and views. No particular target birds, as most all of them will be new.
Thinking of perhaps somewhere near Carara National Park. What about Manuel Antonio? We'd also be up for heading East.
If you had four days in Costa Rica, where would you go to bird and beach?
Thanks for any input you have!
Conor