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Playa Flamingo

Category: Beaches
Location: Nicoya Coast

Fodor's Review:

Playa Flamingo was the first of the northern Nicoya beaches to experience the wonders of overdevelopment, a fact immortalized in the concrete towers that straggle up the hill above Flamingo Bay. The place is still abuzz with real-estate activity, only now the agents are selling house lots. Any ledge of land with a view is now a building site. The beach, hidden away to the south of the town, is one of the few truly white-sand beaches in Costa Rica. This beach is great for swimming, with a fine-sand bottom and no strong currents. There's a bit of surf, so keep your eye on little paddlers. Except for a few spindly trees, there is no shade along the beach's kilometer-long stretch, and no services. To find the beach, as you enter town, instead of going up the hill, turn left past Marie's Restaurant and follow the road past the entrance to the Flamingo Beach Resort to the end, where it becomes a dirt beach road.

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