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Explora Travel offers a variety of adventure and nature tours to complement the enjoyment of sun and beach during your vacations in Costa Rica.

Today, Costa Rica still remains as the safest country in Central America and despite being a small country, it offers a huge variety of fabulous destinations, perfect for everyone.

The combination of a great biodiversity, a rich culture, friendly people, different microclimates and beautiful landscapes ranging from active volcanoes to stunning beaches, is the secret to come and enjoy your holidays.

The country is the birthplace of ecotourism, for this reason, many of the tours can be enjoyed within its active volcanoes, rainforests, cloud forest, dry forests, rivers, waterfalls, hanging bridges and adventure activities such as Canopy tours and Whitewater rafting.

You can experience a great abundance of natural resources, which are all protected by the government in a national park system of protected areas that are home to approximately 5% of the world's biodiversity. These protected areas represent 25% of the national territory and includes 28 national parks, several biological reserves, forest reserves, and wildlife refuges.

Costa Rica general info

Costa Rica is located between Panama to the southeast and Nicaragua to the north. Costa Rica has two long coastlines, to the east lies the Caribbean Sea and to the west is the Pacific Ocean.

Costa Rica is a small country in Central America with a landmass of 19,700 square miles (51,000 square kilometers) along with 277 square miles (717 kilometers) of offshore waters.

The population in the country is approximately 5 million.

“Pura Vida” is the phrase that distinguish people in this country, literally means “Pure Life” in Spanish, but it also is a uniquely Costa Rican idiom for "everything is great.

Costa Ricans (Ticos) use this term to say hello, to say goodbye, to say everything’s great, to say everything’s cool. However, it is not the words that reflect the true meaning of ¡Pura Vida!. Pura Vida is the way Ticos live.

Costa Ricans are called "ticos" because of their unique way of saying diminutives in Spanish. For example, when saying something is small or "chico" in Spanish Costa Ricans would say it is "chiquitico," or very small.