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All Things Manuel Antonio

Costa Rica's most famous national park — and the beach town around it. Sloths on the trails, hidden coves the buses skip, mangrove kayaks, and day trips down the whale coast. Everything worth doing, one filterable map.

Good to know

  • The park caps visitors daily and sells out — buy tickets online days ahead, and go at opening time.
  • No food or single-use plastic inside the national park. Eat before you enter.
  • Stay on the hill, beach by day. The Manuel Antonio hill has the views and restaurants; the beaches are a 10-minute trip down.
  • Uvita is 1h15 south — the whale-tail day trip pairs perfectly with a Manuel Antonio base.

Everything on the map

Tap a category above — the map and the list below filter together. Every pin is from The Costa Rica Map.

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