Destin-Nation Costa Rica: Hitting the Beach in Central America

I love Costa Rican beaches...particularly in the northwest corner of the country. Tamarindo is a great one. Weather is mostly perfect, relatively inexpensive and enough people speak passable English to make hanging out easy. The downside is that there are so many "Gringo" expatriates that it's difficult to get a real local "flavor." Some of the Gringos seem to be in business there just to fleece their unititiated breathern...watch out spending dollars and receiving your change in colones.

In Costa Rica, just make sure you hold on to everything you bring. Your camera, laptop, backpack, even shoes. They will steal anything you have. If you go hiking in the jungle, you be held up by bandits and they will take everything. But on the up-side for all you dope heads, you can get all the coke you want for about 10 cents on the dollar. Just ask any kid on a bike and it will be delivered. Might be lite a line or two but that the cost of doing business. This country just hasn't figured out tourism brings cash. You can buy any cop for 50 bucks.

HAVING LOOKED AT BOTH MEXICO'S AND COSTA RICAN BEACHES I WAS WONDERING IF EITHER OF THESE PLACES ARE PRIVATE BEACHES OR PUBLIC TYPES AND WHY AREN'T THERE ANY NUDE BEACHES IN EITHER AREA . ANYONE CARE TO REPLY TO MY QUESTION PLEASE USE DKBLUE30000ZX@AOL.COM OR TO DECLAN MULQUEEN2@AOL.COM. THANK YOU .

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There are two beaches called Playa Negra in Costa Rica, one on the Pacific coast and one on the Caribbean side. I think the article is about the one in Guanacaste (Pacific coast), although it mistakenly states that Playa Negra is on the Caribbean coast.