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Costa Rica, a tropical paradise nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea

A guide to Costa Rica's best activities throughout the country.

You'll know you've reached Puerto Viejo as you come around the curve of Playa Negra arching its back against the Caribbean coastline. There, near the entrance of town, an old barge sits anchored where the coal black sands of Playa Negra swirl with the ground quartz and sea shells of Playa Chino. A single tree grows from the barge. Though still a sapling, its foliage has the thick green leaves of a coastal almond. A handful of locals often sit on the barge's edge with fishing lines dipped into the Caribbean's turquoise waters, like a painting, like it's all part of some forgotten paradise sitti...

It's not the gold-leaf or the volcanic-coal of Puerto Viejo's beaches that separate it from the rest of the country, it's the ivory sands of its many playa blancas that attract visitors from the world over to sunbathe, surf and snorkel along the Caribbean coastline. What forms these white beaches? Centuries of seashells, coral fragments and quartz pummeled into white silky sands circumventing Costa Rica's fertile forests and beachside villages like those found in Puerto Viejo.

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