Rioja Rent a Car in Costa Rica, Car Rental in Pacifico Central: Manuel Antonio, Puntarenas
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Pacifico Central: Manuel Antonio
Manuel Antonio is one of the most expensive areas of Costa Rica. However you can find cheap hotels. Manuel Antonio began as a cute little town that had a national park next door. As the park became more known, hotels began to open. Since the town is not very wide, began building hotels on the road to Manuel Antonio park, and many took advantage of the panoramic views that this place offers. Soon, expensive and exclusive hotels were built to reach the current state of Manuel Antonio. Nevertheless, cheap hotels can be found but most of them are located next to the beach. More expensive hotels are elevated in hilly areas, more elegant and more breeze, and most of them offer low-season rates. Many of the hotels located in the hills have steep stairways, so that should ask about this when making a reservation. If you do not want to wait for the bus (every 30 minutes), the climb from the beach to the hotel can be difficult and heated.
Manuel Antonio National Park is small, with only 682 hectares. But it contains everything that attracts tourists to Costa Rica: beautiful beaches, a magnificent landscape with islands near the coast, lush rainforest encircled with a network of easy walking trails and much wildlife. There are excellent opportunities to see monkeys (loud, white face up marmoset), sloths and coatimundis. The Lapa Rojas often go around but you'll need some luck to see them.
Despite being small, the Manuel Antonio National Park is one of the country's most popular park, receiving about 150,000 visitors annually in recent years. A few years back the flood of visitors threatened to ruin the very resource that these visitors came to enjoy. The park director, José Antonio Salazar believes the park can tolerate no more than 300 visitors per day. In 1994, the Park Service began limiting the numbers of visitors to 600 per day (800 on Saturdays and Sundays), and the park is now closed on Mondays. If you want to help preserve the park Manuel Antonio, consider visiting in the rainy season or green season. Pollution and throw trash is another problem, take with you everything that you brought.
Anyway, the park is too small to maintain a healthy and viable population of certain animals. If the monkeys do not have access to areas outside the park, the population will decline as they are not playable. The corridors that allow animals access to areas outside the park have been occupied by hotels and, in recent years, the park has become an island. As a result the marmoset monkey population has declined. Fortunately, in 2000 a decree was passed almost triple the size of the park to almost 1,800 hectares.
Manuel Antonio National Park is small, with only 682 hectares. But it contains everything that attracts tourists to Costa Rica: beautiful beaches, a magnificent landscape with islands near the coast, lush rainforest encircled with a network of easy walking trails and much wildlife. There are excellent opportunities to see monkeys (loud, white face up marmoset), sloths and coatimundis. The Lapa Rojas often go around but you'll need some luck to see them.
Despite being small, the Manuel Antonio National Park is one of the country's most popular park, receiving about 150,000 visitors annually in recent years. A few years back the flood of visitors threatened to ruin the very resource that these visitors came to enjoy. The park director, José Antonio Salazar believes the park can tolerate no more than 300 visitors per day. In 1994, the Park Service began limiting the numbers of visitors to 600 per day (800 on Saturdays and Sundays), and the park is now closed on Mondays. If you want to help preserve the park Manuel Antonio, consider visiting in the rainy season or green season. Pollution and throw trash is another problem, take with you everything that you brought.
Anyway, the park is too small to maintain a healthy and viable population of certain animals. If the monkeys do not have access to areas outside the park, the population will decline as they are not playable. The corridors that allow animals access to areas outside the park have been occupied by hotels and, in recent years, the park has become an island. As a result the marmoset monkey population has declined. Fortunately, in 2000 a decree was passed almost triple the size of the park to almost 1,800 hectares.
