Costa Rica - Guanacaste -North Pacific Coast
With its stunning natural beauty and central location - only 45 minutes from the International Liberia Airport - Tamarindo Beach is the focal point for development and growth along the entire Gold Coast. The village of Tamarindo has grown in a few years into a small modern center with an expanding range of services and amenities such as medical, sheriff department, telephone, fax, direct TV and internet access.
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The waters of Tamarindo Costa Rica and the rest of the Gold Coast beaches offer some of the best deep-sea fishing in the world for sail fishing, marlin, swordfish, tuna, snapper and dozens of other species. Tamarindo is the largest community on the beaches of the Gold Coast with dozens of restaurants, hotels, shops, rental car agencies, tour companies and even has its own air strip.
Three 18-hole championship golf courses are nearby. One was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr, and the other, Rancho Las Colinas was designed by Ron Garl who is the president of the Golf Architects Association and was voted golf course designer of the year for 1997. Many more golf courses are in planning stages and currently under construction within one hour of this area.
Medical and health services in Costa Rica are generally rated as good to excellent. Both the government and private companies offer reasonably priced, comprehensive medical and hospital insurance programs. Several large hotels, more than a dozen smaller resort hotels, and several thousand new living units are either under construction or planned in the immediate Tamarindo area.
The Gold Coast
Costa Rica is a nature lover's paradise. Nearly one-eighth of its land is protected as national parks orreserves. About a third of those national parks and reserves are in Guanacaste Province, where the future of the country's tourism is being shaped and the majority of new and upscale residential development is taking place.
The opening of the International Airport at Liberia in 1995 has made the natural wonders of Guanacaste more accessible and greatly encouraged development and growth. This activity is centered on a group of beaches, collectively known as The Guanacaste Gold Coast, which extends from Punta San Francisco, south of Tamarindo Bay, to Sugar Beach in the north.
This beautiful stretch of shoreline offers mile after mile of unspoiled beaches for swimming, sailing, surfing and skin diving; it's a vacation paradise for people who love sun and surf, sports fishing, golf and relaxed, vacation-style living.
The climate is ideal, with temperatures between 70F and 90F year-round (20C and 26C) and the shortest rainy season in the American tropics.
But Guanacaste offers more than simple relaxation. At Playa Grande, Naranjo and Nancite, sea turtles reenact one of Nature's mysterious, ageless dramas when they return to the beaches on which they were born to dig nests and lay their eggs.
Inland, in the highlands of the Continental Divide, Arenal Volcano in eruption puts on a spectacular fireworks display, especially at night, and is only one of several active volcanoes in Guanacaste. The waters of Lake Arenal provide fine fresh-water bass fishing and perfect conditions for serious wind-surfers.
A few miles away, at Canas, there's rafting down the gentle Corobici river for sightings of monkeys, exotic birds and other creatures of the tropical dry forest. Kayaking, water skiing and scuba diving are popular around Papagayo and Tamarindo. an easy driving distance of Tamarindo, Playa Grande, Conchal and Flamingo.
Nearby is the Arenal-Monteverde Wildlife Refuge and Monteverde itself, the home of Costa Rica's most celebrated annual music festival, known for its extraordinary canopied tropical humid and cloud forests.
To the north, the centerpiece of Rincon de la Vieja Park is another active volcano with hot sulfur springs and mud pots; Santa Rosa National Park (123,300 acres), is one of the largest protected tropical dry forests in the world.
