Top 6 Beaches of Costa Rica: Pacific Coast Edition
we're ryan and abby and this is lost among locals in 2020 we quit our jobs to go travel the world here's how it went in our six weeks here in costa rica we've seen some pretty amazing beaches here are our top six here we go number six Brasilio BeachNow let me just warn hyou before you even go look it up. Brasilito itself is not pretty, but the reason we put it on this list is the local vibe brasalito is a small awesome town in the flamingo bay area which is in guanacaste costa rica way up here in the northwest corner some of the most beautiful beaches in the nation are in that corner yeah Brasilito is not one of them but it is a place for you to get a cheap stay in an airbnb or a local hotel there's fabulous local restaurants there's some that sit right on the beach that makes the best fruit smoothies and it's right next door to two of the most amazing beaches in costa rica so it really is a good spot to land for the night or two and get a cheap accommodation have a local meal and meet some folks yeah especially if you're on a budget it's a good place because i said right next to it is pretty expensive absolutely that's the big boy number five five five cinco cinco folks we are learning some espanol number cinco uvita beach uvita beach is famous for its amazing whale's tail so basically at low tide the water recedes from uvita beach revealing a shoreline that looks exactly like the tail of a whale so it's pretty awesome we see some amazing photos of it we were dying to get some drone footage but then we ran into a little catch um the time yeah we'll show you the video here guys beware of cocoa drills well unfortunately the ranger has come and kicked us all out of the park at four o'clock so and told us that we can't take photos we can't do anything we can't stay um low tide is not even till 5 30. so even if you would have gotten here earlier you couldn't take pictures of it so we're super disappointed so we debated on whether to even show you this video of uvita or not um but we decided to go ahead because this is the truth of travel sometimes you really build something up in your mind you're really excited to get there you're really excited to show it to people and then it just doesn't happen it doesn't happen the way you planned for whatever reason yeah and um it's just sort of part of the game we were there for the whale's tale and we got some misinformation that we could go in even though we were right at closing time that we could stay a lot later and unfortunately that wasn't the case we were kicked out right at four o'clock told to leave we were only there for about 30 minutes maybe max as soon as we made the long walk out to the tail ryan was getting out the drone and they came by on the four-wheeler and kicked us off so um and they did it rather rudely not just to us but to several people yeah um and basically when we asked if we could have five minutes to film he said you have two minutes to get to the gate to like get out unfortunately we were only in this area for a day so thank you thank you thank you to our beautiful belgian friends florence and arthur who loaned us their aerial footage they took some beautiful drone footage and they we just happened we had been admiring their pictures on instagram and so we just happened to text them and say hey can we borrow some footage explain to them what happened and they were so so gracious to let us steal some footage for this video so um we appreciate you guys you are awesome check them out on instagram on the soul we'll link them like somewhere down here somewhere long story short if you go to uvita beach guys make sure you get there on time yeah i don't even know how you're going to do that because low tide's not until like 5 30. check tag chart there's the uvita beach tide chart oh and by the way ivita beach is not actually called uvita beach it is in marino ballena national park which is a beautiful park it is a big beautiful stretch of beach even if you can't get to the whale's tail the jungle is thick and lovely we saw monkeys there yeah we did playing around lots of animals and there is a water slide mirror a natural water slide nearby to uvita it's a cute cute cute little town with a great grocery store and a couple of great restaurants and one of the best airbnbs that we stayed in in all of costa rica, with a pool so we do recommend at least to stay in Uvita, maybe just get there in the morning spend the day in the park stay one night and and move along number four drake's bay drake's bay is hard to get to yes it is oh my goodness but it is worth it yes so to get to drake's bay you will need a 4x4 vehicle absolutely it is a dirt road and you're going to cross some creeks a few times yes they have built a new bridge so you don't have to actually cross a river anymore but you will still cross some water a few times and it's pretty bumpy so yes yeah i would say no cars i would say yeah you need an suv at least with some clearance maybe not four wheel drive but at least with some clearance so just know that um it is but the area of drinks bay is absolutely stunning it's near corcovado national park which is the wildest and most wonderful part of costa rica it is still very untamed the whole area is a national reserve and the wildlife is the scientist oh my goodness yeah just off our balcony we watched some uh parrots fight with each other and wow huge scarlet macaws yeah they were beautiful and there was a bunch of birds flying around huge iguanas i mean yeah the wildlife is crazy in that area so the tours into corcovado park are pretty expensive i think the big hike was like 190 or something like that don't quote me on that but it was quite it was quiet it was somewhere around there yes so we actually took a local tour guide again you guys are learning that these are our favorites but our friend paul that was traveling with us had gone with this guy a couple of years before and happened to still have his phone number so we called up gustavo gustavo was born and raised in corcovado near the drake's bay area and he knows that for us like the back of seven his hands he picks you up in the afternoon you do a day hike to see as many sloths and monkeys and birds as you can and he takes you for a lovely dinner at a local farmer's house that they prepare for you and then you go back out into the forest at night where we saw kinkachoos yes we saw um several night birds we saw of course spiders and lots of mating frogs lots of frogs yeah in pears and um we got to see it's hate fairy it's huge they're huge oh they're massive um and so yeah it was really really cool you see a lot of wildlife with gustavo plus he knows everything about the jungle like literally everything and it is a dense beautiful part of the course waterfalls and it's just a lovely lovely life yeah i mean you can go swimming and he is so much fun to be around because all the knowledge he has and he makes like all the bird sounds and everything which again is amazing how good they are the frog sounds yeah it's so much better he can imitate like every course he's amazing definitely check out gustavo his link is found in the description he's an awesome guy if you go to football he um charged us like 50 bucks i think i think so we have a seven-hour tour super awesome and worth every video yes um there is also a nice little restaurant in drake's bay it's a very small town that sits on a beautiful beach little crescent-shaped beach lovely water a few restaurants right on the water our favorite restaurant was called delicious bahia drake it was right across the street from our airbnb we stayed in jade mar airbnb which was fine yes simple accommodations the air conditioning and a few and lovely kitchen all we needed um but across was delicious and oh my goodness i mean there wasn't anything that we ordered from there that we did not want we're so impressed it was so good yeah i mean for this little town in the middle of nowhere it was one of the best restaurants we made out of costa rica everything you ordered off the menu us or our friends was fabulous it was like fabulous and cheap it was really cheap yeah so one of the more affordable areas aside from the tours the tours are accepted yes um all right number three Conchal beach Conchal beach is special because again it's up in the flamingo bay area that northern part of guanacaste conchal beach is one of the other reasons that we mentioned Brasilito earlier so you can walk right down brasoliot beach over a small path really really small lovely walk and you're on Conchal beach all of a sudden the most beautiful white beach where it's not really sand it's made of white seashells for a quite a ways and then you walk farther down the beach and it does turn into sand the Conchal beach is great for families there's always families out there there are some umbrellas there there is actually a resort at home beach called the beach resort and hotel um so you can have a nice more expensive place to stay if you'd like to or you can also stay in brasilito for super cheap and just walk there because it's literally right outside your door number two which is actually my personal favorite penca beach penca beach is the most adorable white sand beach with all these palm trees and lush forest in the background and then over on the side there's just huge rocks and cliffs and tide pools and tons of crabs and colorful fish and the water's the most lovely blue green and the waves are perfect it was really nice it has a view of all the islands out in the middle there's nowhere to stay on pencabeach there's like one hotel near but here's the thing about five minutes down the road from penca you have flamingo bay which is gonna be a huge area we'll talk to you about that in a minute and then you have about 20 minutes down the road you have brasilito and conchal beach so they're all in that guanacaste area within a very short drive of each other so it's a great place to make your hub yes but penca beach is definitely a spot where you should go spend the day the best thing about penca is there's usually one or two families of locals there and there's nobody else there yeah it was pretty there's almost no people have it all to yourself all to yourself number one number one's a tie number one was hard for us to tie because one really suits us and one would really suit a lot of other people so here's our title first number one flamingo bay flamingo bay is a haven for expats so there are tons of condos there's a margaritaville there there's lots of cute little restaurants it's a great place to book a tour yeah um when my mom and i were there a couple years ago we booked a snorkeling tour with lazy blizzard they were a fabulous company it took you out around the islands there's some beautiful snorkeling in the area it's a great place to watch for whales there's a marina there so you can take sailboat tours and all kinds of things like that so it is definitely a more touristy set up place to be which means it costs quite a bit more yes because of the tourist issue and because of the expat issue it's big bucks to stay in flamingo bay however it's big bucks on a backpacker budget when i went there two years ago with my mother on vacation we were only going to be there for a week we went into this beautiful two-bedroom apartment i think it cost 600 or something of that nature on airbnb it had a balcony that overlooked the marina it was absolutely on the water it had a private beach all of the above so 600 bucks for the week two bedroom perfectly new beautiful apartment so if you're on vacation flamingo bay is perfectly doable um and they're in the flamingo bay resort and all of those airbnbs in that area actually have a private beach on one side and the flamingo bay on the other side flamingo bay is a very large crusher tank white beach white beaches are really rare in costa rica um so it's one of the only at least on the pacific side so it's one of the only white beaches and it is a lovely lovely area so we definitely recommend that you at least visit flamingo bay and maybe even make it your home because there's several beaches within a 20-minute drive it's so basically you have flamingo bay 20 minutes down brazilito one minute down walk conical beach so they are kind of all right in there together so if you're taking your family if you want a nice quiet vacation in a place that's lovely and won't give you any hardship let me go back if you like to rough it a little bit more and you want something with a little more personality we personally love montezuma montezuma is the most glorious coastline you guys probably saw it on our instagram yeah we couldn't take enough pictures of this place it has all these stretches of kind of not white white but light sand beaches and then rocky coves and then sandy cove and then rocky outlet and so it's so much fun there's so many tide pools animals oh yeah i mean lizards iguanas birds um and a little hotel that we stayed at was a very cheap very simple hotel called hotel montezuma it sits right on the water but the best part of it was the great big balcony yeah we had a big balcony that we pretty much spent a lot of our time now we spent a lot of time there i got my coffee there yeah each morning and because it had this beautiful view of the little cold area that it sat at the beach and it was just amazing so if you walk down the coastline you actually get like a state not around a state park a national resort of some sort yeah and there's a long stretch of beach playa grande down there that you can actually learn to go surfing yes i was really excited about that sort of kind of ryan better than me but not great it that was the first time i've ever done that yeah we made it work yeah we'll definitely try again sometimes yes um i almost got lost trying to get there i had no idea where i was going and i thought you just walked down the beach turns out i was like climbing over boulders and my flip-flops going through crevices crossing rivers with all the camera equipment and then i get there to find out that there's a trail there's a trail there's a trail that just goes up and you know walks flat over all of that would have taken me like 20 minutes instead of the hour and a half that it took me to get there yeah on my treacherous route oh you got to be flipping kidding me there's been a trail this whole time i just came through that trail that i'm gonna kill my husband i was cussing ryan the whole way because he didn't tell me how dangerous it was and then i got there and realized that that's because it wasn't i just chose the wrong path anywho montezuma has the most local lovely vibe about it but it really is not a lot of locals it's a lot of backpackers and travelers yes um there are some lovely restaurants there there's an organic restaurant there there's a couple of local spots there there's a great grocery store but it's all kind of packed into this one little corner there's not much to it there's a bunch of hostels a couple airbnbs and like one or two recently um down falls to montezuma it's loud it is loud um there it probably wouldn't be if you stayed in one of the airbnbs up on the hill the bad part about the hotel we stayed in was it was literally the first one ever built and it's in the center of town so everybody who was there to party was there to party outside our window yes all night long much every night yeah or a lot of nights most of the nights montazuma is the kind of place that if you want to go build a fire on the beach just go build a fire on the beach if you want to play naked on the beach go for it if you'd like to just sleep out there and not run a room at all you can do that too um it's just kind of a free place so we did enjoy parts of it yeah also the wifi's terrible so really weirdly in montezuma there's one of the most critically acclaimed restaurants in all of costa rica it's called artistas it sits right on one of the beautiful sandy coves in montezuma and they serve some weird stuff yep that's fabulous it's one of those places where your plate costs too much and it's really really beautiful but you don't get enough food so you have to go to the grocery store afterwards it's one of those places but it tastes amazing but it tastes amazing you get some really really interesting stuff there and it's beautifully presented and it's such a super great environment so you should definitely try it at least once yeah montezuma is at least worth a stop if you don't stay the night there which if you have your family i wouldn't um it's still worth a stop just to check out the area it's it's a really cool area super fun it's super beautiful and it's worth a day just playing in the tide pools oh yeah and in the unpredictable time all right guys that's it those are our top seven beaches of the pacific coast of costa rica we hope you found at least one you like let us know which one sounds the best to you drop it in the comments and if you haven't subscribed to our channel yet what are you even doing with your life yes push the button click it hit the bell click it hit the bell hit all the buttons and comment and say hey yeah and comment and say hey we'd like to hear from you let us know if you love this video let us know if you hated it and we'll see you soon not get lost good job around by there number four um so it's actually right next to brasilito guys there is not a quiet place in all of central america no there is not there just isn't there's not one single quiet place in all of central america all right under prepared as usual why did i get myself into these things it's just so very impulsive i never take the time to think about all the things that i might need on an adventure just sort of go and this is why ladies and gentlemen it is important to marry someone who is gifted in all the qualities that you are not like sensibility
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