Adventurous part of Costa Rica. The central highlands straddle the three major mountain ranges above 300 meters and reach down the country from Oros volcano on the North to the southern tip of the Tilar n mountains on the Panama border. With all the hyperbole about Costa Rica's magnificent beaches, the northern lowlands and the mountains of the northern area must be feeling forgotten. Arenal Volcano visits, wind surfing and fishing on lake, horseback riding and hiking. North Pacific - Guanacaste Guanacaste's Nicoya province sits atop a dry plain, pocked with small hills and cut off from the eastern half of the nation by a mountain chain, the Tilarans.
Resorts are still adventurous and sparse.
Fishing, diving, hiking, horseback riding and surfing. The Tarcoles river provides the natural boundary between the dry North and the humid South. The archeological background of this region is not complete with some of the most puzzling mysteries regarding this region's past. This is the land of giant spheres which one Dutch author speculated are projectiles fired by spacecrafts thousands of years ago. The largest are over nine feet in diameter weigh over 2,000 pounds and are hundreds or thousands of years old.