Overwhelmed with planning your Costa Rica travel? Guides to these three famous Central American tourist destinations will make planning your exotic vacation and finding a vacation rental in Costa Rica a breeze.

Diverse and Exotic Destination
At the southern end of the Costa Rica's Pacific Coast, Corcovado National Park is considered one of the most important natural preserves in the Americas. The virgin rain forest park is home to at least 13 distinct vegetation types, including mangroves, palm swamps and bloodweed forest. Jaguars, giant anteaters and a host of rare rain forest animals inhabit the crocodile-filled lagoon at the park's center. The captivating visual beauty of its forest and of its coastline, with miles of uninhabited beaches and roaring cascades, make Corcovado a wonderfully exotic destination in Costa Rica.

Exotic Vacation Spot
For a stay at an especially exotic vacation spot, visit the Tortuguero National Park, which is the most important nesting ground for the Green Sea Turtle in the Western Caribbean? During the summer months, thousands of turtles come ashore along the world-famous beaches to lay their eggs. Often called, "Costa Rica's Amazon," Tortuguero is a navigable network of lakes and channels with a diversity of fauna and flora you can observe up close. You may even spot an Iguana basking in the trees or monkeys and sloth in the forest canopy.

Exotic Travel Spot for Diving
To experience one of the world's exotic travel destinations for diving, head to Caño Island. Located off the Southwest Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Caño Island offers a variety of unique diving attractions, from 16-foot reefs to 80-foot "walls," volcanic rock formations, sea fans, cup coral and head corals. Caño's biggest attraction, though, are the sharks that can be as large at 10 feet. Sea turtles, dolphins, stingrays, morays, and huge snapper and grouper also are common. Caño Island is designated as a Biological Reserve, so the diving is regulated; only five dive sites are open to the public.