IAR Costa Rica - Nosara Wildlife Rescue Center
Parks & Wildlife · Nicoya Peninsula · Nature tours
Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center near Nosara that opens a few mornings a week for guided educational visits. Reviewers praise the knowledgeable guides and the clear explanation of why animals end up here.
- Hours
- Mon-Thu 09:30-11:00; Fri closed; Sat 09:30-11:00; Sun closed
- Ratings
- 4.9 on Tripadvisor (198) · 4.7 on Google (155)
Contact & directions
- Website: https://www.iarcostarica.org/en/educational-visits/
- Phone: +506 2682 5049
- Location: 9.958608, -85.657086 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Playa PeladaBeach · FreeNosara's smaller, calmer beach, with rocky points, low-tide pools, shady trees and a blowhole that fires spray around the turn of the tide.
- Pelada–Guiones Trail & Lookout (Nosara NCA trails)Trail · FreeNosara's beaches are tied together by about 9 km of forest trails that the Nosara Civic Association protects on some 250 hectares through Guiones, Pelada and Boca Nosara.
- Reserva Biológica Nosara (river mouth and tide flats)Nature spot · hidden gemWhere the Nosara River meets the Pacific: rocky tide flats and tide pools, a sandbar river mouth and plenty of pelicans, terns and shorebirds.
- Playa GuionesBeach · FreeNosara's long surf beach: forgiving, consistent waves on a sandy bottom and a green, forested shoreline with no buildings on the sand.
- Playa Nosara (Boca Nosara)Beach · FreeA long, peaceful stretch north of Playa Pelada, inside the Ostional refuge, where fishermen still haul their boats up the sand and the Nosara River reaches the sea.
- Playa GarzaBeach · Free · hidden gemA calm, reef-sheltered bay between Sámara and Nosara with a fishing village in the middle, tide pools at the rocky ends and shade from trees along the sand.
Sources: https://www.iarcostarica.org/en/educational-visits/