manuel antonio trip report
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Manuel Antonio
Trip Report
Estudiantes: Sophia Campos
Gilberth Quesada Jocelyne MoralesDiego Ramirez
Location The park its situated about 157km to the
south of Costa Rica’s capital, San Jose, and 7km south Quepos city, between Damas and Matapalo.
The terrestrial side has an extension of 1.983 hectare
55.00 hectare on the marine side This area its dedicated to the conservation,
investigation and ecologic tourism focus on environment education.
Characteristics This park has one of the most amazing views and landscapes of
Costa Rica and the world, it has many beaches with white and soft sand, and beautiful plantation in between of big mountains and woods that reach the beaches.
Be side of the exuberant flora, the terrestrial and marine biodiversity it’s something you’ve never seen before, monkeys are seeing on all of the way through the beach
Characteristics Also there are raccoons that may steal your food, sloth
are easy to find in this park, you can also see some birds like toucans, pelicans, osprey bird among others. And a countless amount of amazing fishes with bright colors.
Manuel Antonio has also other beaches beside the ones that are in the national park, it has Manuel Antonio beach, Espadilla beach, Twins beach, and some more beaches.
Because of his excellent weather and beauty, this place is visited by a big amount of local and foreign tourists that want to have a once in a life time experience. And for that reason, a lot of Jobs for the locals are offered, some of them are: Hotel jobs like: receptionist, hotel manager, cleaning service, chef,
waiter. Touristic guide Environmentalist Park ranger Souvenir seller Artisanal seller And jobs in restaurant’s like: chef, waiter, kitchen helper.
Characteristics
Tourism Administration and ManagementCommunication
Services Transportation Options
Available
In Manuel Antonio, there are many
choices for tourists to spend time,
activities such as:
Manuel Antonio
The Manuel Antonio’s
beach
Restaurants
HotelsShopping stores and markets
Manuel Antonio National
Park
Manuel Antonio National Park: The tourists can’t come to Manuel Antonio without visiting its famous national park. The park has plenty of exotic and rare animals and plants, like sloths, monkeys and birds along even the main trails. The entry fee of the park for foreigner costs $16.
The Manuel Antonio’s beach: one of the most beautiful beaches in Costa Rica, where tourists can enjoy the view and join in to different activities like the banana ride for the seashore, surfing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, parasailing, Kayaking, canoeing, Diving, snorkeling, waterskiing, jet skiing, Fishing, tubing, horse riding, mountain bike rides, tennis, canopy and hiking with the different nature tours available.
Hotels: tourists can also enjoy the services available to them by the hotels like spas and the swimming pools. We in our trip, for example go to Hotel El Faro.
Restaurants: there are lots of options to enjoy a delicious meal while in Manuel Antonio, since there is a big Gastronomical variety for the meals of the day as well as a wide price range among them. For example: Restaurant El Avión.
Shopping stores and markets: tourists can go shopping for souvenirs in one of the lots of souvenirs shops where they can find the best price for the objects.
Here we can find examples of the
prices for some of the activities that tourists can enjoy
in Manuel Antonio:
Programs and Services
Environment Programs avilable wildlife conservancy awareness
Blue Flag
Community linkages Local industries
Local culture Community linkages
Electronic applicationOne of the improvement areas in Manuel Antonio, would be the need for public services like hospitals and fire stations closer to the new developed areas. In order to fulfill this need, we´ve designed an app to solve this problem. The idea of the app consists in making a platform that provides the links to access quickly the information for these services that aren´t nearby at the moment.
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