INBio Park and Costa Rica Car Rentals

Try something different when you travel to Costa Rica with your Costa Rica car rental by visiting INBio Park. INBio is located in Santo Domingo de Heredia, a few minutes away from San Jose. The exhibits are all very well planned and really instructive for children as well as for adults. This is a great place to learn about the environment and appreciate its beauty in a fun and interesting way.

Learning about our planet

INBio Park explains how fragile the ecosystem is and how it is our duty to care for it and to protect it. Easy to understand exhibits demonstrate how some effort and organization combined with love and care can make a difference. It also explains how the National Parks and protected areas can really help to protect the environment. There, you can experience the tropical humid forest, the tropical dry forest, and the central valley native forest and how urbanization has changed it.

Preserving our earth

Created in the late 1980s, the Instituto Nacional de Biodiverdiad (INBio) is a national institute for biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica. It is a privately-run institution that works closely with various government agencies, universities, and business sectors. Adults and children are able to learn about ecosystem and how it is our responsibility to care and to protect it. Today, INBio is visited be tourists from all over the world eager to learn about the rainforests in Costa Rica.

A one of a kind facility

INBio Park is part museum, educational center and nature park. Two large pavilions outline Costa Rica's natural wonders and biodiversity, and hiking trails re-create the ecosystems of tropical rain forest, dry forest, and premontane forest. After your tour with your Costa Rica car rentals why don¡¯t you take a break in the little cafeteria for coffee, cakes and fruit juice? The cafeteria has great offerings that will fuel you on to continue your exploration of InNBio Park.

Taking the tour

The first thing you should do at INBio Park with your Costa Rica car rentals is to watch an audiovisual presentation about the biodiversity of Central America as seen from a satellite. The video will outline the variety of ecosystems. After that, walk with your Costa Rica car rentals down various trails and exhibitions were you can see tiny poison dart frogs, snakes, dears, crocodiles, turtles, and all different species of birds.

Seeing the animals

You will be able to see several live exhibits at INBio Park with your Costa Rica car rentals. There is a small native horse were children can ride on. There is also a butterfly garden that will delight any visitor especially when they fly up close to you. There is also an organic farm, with a variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs. Nearby is the animal far which has a calf, lambs and some baby goats! You can feed them by purchasing food pellets for them.

Taking a piece of the forest home with you

Before you head out with your Costa Rica car rentals make sure you visit the souvenir shop where it is possible to buy photos, toys of the animals you have just seen, books, decorations and more. These souvenirs make perfect gifts for your friends and family back home!

Before you go¡¦

INBio Park is open daily from 8 am to 6 pm. Admission is $23 for adults and $13 for children 12 years and under. Guided hikes costs $3.

For more information when you visit INBio Park with your Costa Rica Car Rentals visit their official website at www.inbio.ac.cr or call 2507 8107/