Barra Honda National Park

Guanacaste Province · Costa Rica

Barra Honda National Park, Costa Rica
Photo: Shamhain, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
December to April; caves close in the wettest months
Budget
$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
Open in maps

A dry-forest park on the Nicoya Peninsula protecting a limestone plateau riddled with more than forty caverns. Visitors descend a 17-meter ladder into Terciopelo Cave to see calcite formations shaped like organs and popcorn. Above ground, trails lead to lookouts over the Tempisque River basin.

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