Tell a Tale of a Tail of a Whale Seen in Costa Rica!

Something unique you can’t miss when you visit Dominical Beach.

Bahía Ballena (Whale Bay) is located in the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, within the canton of Osa. It’s only 15 minutes south of the town that is very well known for surfers: Dominical. Surrounded by a majestic natural splendor of the southern Pacific region, Dominical town offers its visitors this God’s breathtaking and exclusive nature’s spot.

The main reason for this given name comes from the giant sandbar whale- like tail pattern, when seen from above, formed during low tide at the north end of the Ballena Marine National Park beach.
Sharing a length of about 2296 feet and a width of 820 feet, it is the world’s third largest sandbank. People easily walk to the end of this sand formation without any trouble during any time of the year. You just have to be sure it’s low tide time so you can make your walk back without any mayor difficulties.

Due to its perfect location on the Pacific Ocean, whales from the north and south come to give birth here. Bahía Ballena offers then, not one but two whale watching seasons throughout the year. The Southern Humpback whales come to the national park between mid-July to October late, and then from mid-December through late March it’s the turn of the Northern Humpback Whales.


So what do you say? Put Whale Bay on your future visiting spots for this New Year’s next getaway, and have a tale of a tail to tell your friends back home, you hear?

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By Gabriela Serrano

Why you should travel to Central America

Once a place largely to be avoided for war and political upheaval, Central America in recent years is the darling of travel in the Americas. Led strongly by Costa Rica and Belize, the seven nations of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are becoming immensely popular for family travel, luxury travel, adventure travel, and as new places to retire.

Bordered by the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the slender land bridge of Central America extends from Mexico to Colombia in South America. While some Central American countries still deal with mild unrest, most countries enjoy peace, stable governments and burgeoning tourism, business, agriculture and import/export industries.

Each country has its own unique characteristics, culture, cuisine and customs: Mayan ruins, volcanoes, rainforest, fabulous tropical coastlines, magnificent beaches, charming colonial towns, indigenous communities and artisan crafts, fascinating wildlife, and major landmarks like the Panama Canal, Lake Nicaragua and Belize’s barrier reef.

The region’s close proximity makes country-hopping on vacation relatively easy. Flights are a few hours or less between all of the countries. In the case of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama, you could wake up in the quaint colonial town of Granada on the shores of Lake Nicaragua, and then enjoy an adventure of surfing or zip-lining or hiking through the rainforest in Costa Rica; and afterwards finish with a fresh fish dinner by the warm Caribbean Sea in Panama’s Bocas del Toro islands. It’s all possible, especially if you use local flights.

Costa Rica is one of the most popular destinations in Central America, noted by the more than 2 million tourists who traveled to Costa Rica in 2013. Costa Rica is known for its beautiful beaches, extraordinary wildlife, friendly people, and stunning landscapes of rainforest, cloud forest, volcanoes, and more.

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Article by Shannon Farley