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Barra Honda National Park
As a volunteer at Barra Honda National Park you'll assist with trail maintenance, tourists assistance, fire control, sign creation and maintenance, environmental education, meal preparation, building maintenance and construction or general cleaning and maintenance.
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 Barra Honda National Park is located in the Province of Guanacaste about 15 miles northeast of the city of Nicoya. The average temperature there is 28º C (82º F) year-round. It was established in 1974 for the purpose of protecting a major limestone system.
Observed here year-round are many diverse species of fauna, especially birds. Though you'll also likely see pizotes, raccoons, guatuso, white-tailed deer and anteaters. We're happy to say that the animal life here has increased quite a bit in the last several years, thanks to our programs of Fire Control and Protection.
Right now only the Terciopelo cavern is open to the public. Its conditions are perfect for decent and experimentation. It's ideal for adventure tourism, yet it's relatively undiscovered. They are currently receiving over 2,000 visitors to the park each year.
Volunteers at Barra Honda will assist with trail maintenance, tourists assistance, fire control, sign creation and maintenance, environmental education, meal preparation, building maintenance and construction or general cleaning and maintenance. The staff provide comfortable lodge-style accommodations, as well as three meals daily. Basically, what you're asked to do is to help out with whatever the park needs for help at that time. We recommend volunteers bring with them to the park:
Please note that this national park is a bit remote. There is a restaurant with a pool just outside the gates. But other than that, there is not a whole lot in the area. This is a perfect project for someone who wants to commune with nature, meditate, hike, practice yoga and meet like-minded people. If you're looking for action, parties, restaurants and lots of tours outside the park, please consider a project such as Monkey Park and Monte Alto, which is also a beautiful national park -- but happens to be close to a town.
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Barra Honda is a very unique park in Costa Rica where you'll find deep, subterranean caverns. Though there are other parks in Costa Rica where you'll find caverns, Barra Honda is unique because of the types of formations found here. Barra Honda is also famous for having the best views in the whole Province of Guanacaste.
Barra Honda boasts a network of limestone caverns, those which so far have only been 50% explored by scientists and speleologists. Nineteen caverns have been explored and which are very amazing to see. They have capricious shapes created by the action of water on calcium carbonate (stalactites, stalagmites).