Beach Resorts To Book Diving Vacations In Costa Rica

This small Central American country is a tropical paradise with magnificent rainforests, exotic wildlife, majestic volcano ranges, awesome beaches, and many other vacation attractions. Costa Rica is also a perfect holiday destination for snorkeling and scuba diving vacations, featuring excellent facilities for these outdoor activities. The best-rated beach resorts for scuba dive vacations in Costa Rica are located on the western coast at Pacific Ocean, in the Guanacaste region; other great diving resorts are located south to San Jose.

The Guanacaste area is easy accessible, particularly for tourists who arrive in Liberia, located in the northern region of Costa Rica. From North America (USA and Canada) are available both regular and seasonal charter flights directly to Liberia. The vacation town of Playas del Coco, where stay many tourists and divers, is located at short distance to airport.

In Playas del Coco are restaurants, budget lodgings, and all kind of hotels that provide rewarding vacation packages to Costa Rica. Tourists find there, just like in other renowned dive resorts where spend vacations US citizens, several American scuba diving operators supplying special packages that include usually both diving and accommodation in one of the local vacation properties.

Not long time ago, Tamarindo was a quiet little village on the western coast of Costa Rica, but in the last 15 years this town became a more and more popular tourist site for scuba diving vacations amongst North American voyagers. Although most of the "wild atmosphere" has gone, Tamarindo is still an excellent site for surfing, snorkeling and diving.

Scuba diving in Costa Rica is very different from the usual Caribbean reef exploration. The visibility is lower and the waters are colder. The poor visibility is due to the higher quantity of plankton than in waters from Caribbean Sea. However, this is also a huge advantage, because the plankton attracts larger marine animals like whales, this wonderful marine creatures could be seen pretty frequently.

Numerous large marine species such as giant sea turtles, stingrays, white sharks and whales are present in waters of Costa Rica, and as result this Central American country offers very exciting moments during immersions in the aquatic world. Perhaps the water is not crystal clear, but the aquatic life is very rich and varied. Plus there is more! Vacation packages provided to most diving destinations in Costa Rica are very convenient, the prices being significantly lower than in other dive resorts of the world, this characteristic representing a plus motive to visit this stunning part of the planet.