Wildlife of Costa Rica
There aren’t many places in the world you can wake to the bark of a troop of howler monkeys, walk along a deserted beach and spot a formation of scarlet macaws in the sky, watch a trio of toucans fly over your head as you raft a rapid or drive along the road to see a sloth asleep in a tree.
The wildlife is simply spectacular in Costa Rica and the guides first class; you have real chances of seeing tapirs, sloth, ocelots, coatis, caiman, numerous species of monkey, margay, turtles, iguanas, frogs, butterflies, not to mention more than 850 species of birds.
Even the elusive jaguar can be occasionally seen prowling through the jungle.