Manuel Antonio National Park
If you grab a lush rainforest and combine it with white sandy beaches and pristine tropical waters, you will likely get an unique place like Manuel Antonio National Park. These 1,680 acres of protected area is Costa Rica’s most treasured location in the central pacific.
We decided to fully explore this region and started with some morning walks through some trails of different categories. One led us to Punta Catedral, a rocky formation with exuberant vegetation and impressive cliffs surrounded by some islands with nesting brown boobies. The other walk took us to the “Sloth Valley” trail, a relative easy trail along the Manuel Antonio beach and the access road to the ranger’s station. Both walks granted us with howler monkeys and Central American agoutis as well as some special bird sightings such as laughing falcons and a nesting golden napped woodpecker.
Later in the end of the morning, some of our guests refreshed their bodies in these tropical waters, bathing in our landing beach known as Espadilla. Just after lunch, a few rain clouds rolled up from the south, but it never poured its precious water on our landing beach, therefore some adventurers decided to go for another walk to a lookout area, while others decided to explore the small town of Manuel Antonio.
Once everybody was back on board by 4pm, we took a group picture and took part in a delightful lecture by historian and naturalist Julio to wrap up a great week together.
If you grab a lush rainforest and combine it with white sandy beaches and pristine tropical waters, you will likely get an unique place like Manuel Antonio National Park. These 1,680 acres of protected area is Costa Rica’s most treasured location in the central pacific.
We decided to fully explore this region and started with some morning walks through some trails of different categories. One led us to Punta Catedral, a rocky formation with exuberant vegetation and impressive cliffs surrounded by some islands with nesting brown boobies. The other walk took us to the “Sloth Valley” trail, a relative easy trail along the Manuel Antonio beach and the access road to the ranger’s station. Both walks granted us with howler monkeys and Central American agoutis as well as some special bird sightings such as laughing falcons and a nesting golden napped woodpecker.
Later in the end of the morning, some of our guests refreshed their bodies in these tropical waters, bathing in our landing beach known as Espadilla. Just after lunch, a few rain clouds rolled up from the south, but it never poured its precious water on our landing beach, therefore some adventurers decided to go for another walk to a lookout area, while others decided to explore the small town of Manuel Antonio.
Once everybody was back on board by 4pm, we took a group picture and took part in a delightful lecture by historian and naturalist Julio to wrap up a great week together.
