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Take a few days off from your busy work routine and enjoy the benefits of comfort and relaxation. This free time from the daily schedule helps you to recharge yourself with lots of energy that will be utilized once you are back to work. Most significantly, this is the time when you can spend quality hours with your near and dear ones.
Among a number of mediums to relax, a trip to spa is a wonderful idea. Widely, there are two kinds of spas—traditional spas and modern spas.
Costa Rica is one such place that is popular for its spas. It is suggested to choose the type of spa that suits your personal needs. Prefer a resort spa if you wish to feel homely environment along with the entertainment and spa experience. In such resorts, you can enjoy spa treatments together with services like golf, tennis, horseback riding, skiing, and many more. Healthful spa cuisine is on the menu alongside traditional fare, and alcohol is also available. Evenings in such resorts are spent in leisure pastime activities like dancing and live concerts. Various activities for children are complimentary in these resort spas. One should go for a day spa if he or she wants a less time-consuming spa experience. These day spas are designed especially to beautify, relax, or pamper your spa experience with individual treatments that generally take less than an hour. You can enjoy such spa experience in health clubs, hotels or departmental stores.
Costa Rica is a place to a number of world-famous spas. Some of them are discussed hereunder.
Los Altos De Eros: It is a five-star spa in the hills of Costa Rica. Various activities, such as sunrise and sunset yoga classes and exceptional spa treatments are the key attributes of this spa. You will find a lot of adventurous and soothing places around this spa, for example, vibrant nightlife, sports fishing and a beautiful beach at Playa Avellanas.
Ama Tierra Retreat & Wellness Center: It is located in the mountains of the Central Valley famous for specialization in yoga and professional wellness services.
Garden Spa: This spa offers you an opportunity to have a marvelous experience with its various spa treatments. It is an ideal spa for such people who believe in regular exercise. The traditional relaxation massage is one of the specialties of this spa. It is also considered as an ideal honeymoon location. You will forget all your routine mental and physical stress once you are acquainted to the mix of essential oils and relaxation massage treatment.

Coco Beauty Spa: This spa is situated in the heart of Playa Tamarindo, a lovely town located at the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Tourists from all over the world visit this place to enjoy and relax.

Xandari Resort & Spa: It is just like a paradise on earth located near the Central Valley of Costa Rica. The spa is located at a tropical garden. It includes 5 private palm–roofed jalapas with jacuzzis together with a stunning view of the Central Valley. You can enjoy a massage, mud wrap, facial, and many more body treatments.

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Originally written by MARA VORHEES
for Lonely Planet

Pura Vida Spa! I had spent the day lounging on the black-sand beach and biking through the monkey-infested rain forest. When I pedaled up to the Pure Jungle Spa, I was sweaty. My host, Denise, did not bat an eye.
The spa itself — just south of Puerto Viejo on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast — is set in an open-air, thatch-roof hut, lit by lanterns and surrounded by rain forest.
Denise ushered me into a Bedrock-style shower with an open window offering a jungle view. I half expected to turn on the water by tugging on an elephant’s trunk.
After rinsing off, I was invited to soak my feet in hibiscus-scented water. Completely relaxed and refreshed, I was ready for the treatment: the spa’s signature papaya facial.
While the mask set, Denise massaged my hands and head. The call of exotic birds, the patter of rain and other sounds of the jungle drifted in. More than a facial, this was an all-body, all-sense experience.
You can’t bottle tropical paradise, but the Pure Jungle Spa comes close. All its products are locally made from organic fruit, virgin coconut oil and homemade cocoa butter.

The spa was an unexpected highlight of my stay in Puerto Viejo, a hippie haven famous for its big surf break, not for fancy spa treatments.
Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast has long lagged behind the more developed Pacific coast. Two mountain ranges — the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca — bisect the country and isolate the “Caribbean side.” But the divide is more than geographic.

Much of the region’s population has Afro-Caribbean roots, stretching from Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants who came to work in the banana industry. Until 1949, the country was racially segregated, and the darker-skinned residents were forbidden from leaving the Caribbean. Neglected by the central government, the region trailed in obtaining infrastructure like electricity, telephone lines and paved roads. The disparity is still evident, with higher poverty levels than in the rest of the country.
In earlier times, only wave-riders and thrill-seekers were willing to brave the overland journey to this far-flung spot. By day, they would take on Costa Rica’s sauciest surf, known as Salsa Brava; by night, they would build bonfires on the beach and sleep under the stars. The lack of telephones and electricity — let alone hotels and restaurants — didn’t bother these hard-core adventurers too much.

Nowadays, Puerto Viejo’s traditional clientele is growing up, and so is the town itself. Sleeping on the beach is no longer required. The road from San Jose is paved.
Four daily buses make the five-hour journey from San Jose to Puerto Viejo. Gray Line runs one bus a day. It’s also an easy trip for rental cars

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