Tamarindo Travel Guide

Endless summer: learn to surf at Playa Tamarindo

Surfing and sea turtles put this Pacific town on the map.

And its recent rapid transformation from sleepy fishing village to garish gringo beach resort is a story that is becoming all too (depressingly) common along Costa Rica's overdeveloped Guanacaste coast.

Pollution, drugs and prostitution have followed the tourists, but has done little to deter the endless stream of North Americans and Europeans from coming here.