Villas Canadiense is located on the Pacific Ocean on the West coast of Costa Rica in the Nosara Project in the Nicoya District of Guanacaste Province. On the map, you will see Nicoya located on the Nicoya Peninsula. For those folks who sail or who can use a GPS receiver, the region is approximately 10 degrees above (i.e., North of) the Equator. (To be a bit more precise, we are located at North 9 Degrees, 56 Minutes 40.0 Seconds and West 85 Degrees, 40 Minutes 3.5 Seconds more or less allowing for small shifts in the tectonic plates. This data courtesy of the President of Geodyssey Limited, John M. Russell and three GPS receivers, circa December 2004.)
We are about 6 hours drive West from San Jose (Capital city of Costa Rica)
We are about 2 hours drive South from Liberia (international airport on West Coast)
We are about 1.5 hour drive Southwest from Nicoya (largest town on the Nicoya Peninsula)
San Jose or Liberia are about a 6 hour flight South from Calgary
San Jose or Liberia are about a 2 hour flight South from Miami
Our condominium units are located only yards from Playas Guiones - a long, gently curving sand beach. We are approximately in the center of the beach. The North and South ends of the beach feature rocky points of land, separating Playas Guiones from the next beaches. Hotel Playas de Nosara is located at the North end of the beach.
We are about one block from the Gilded Iguana, one of the favourite bars in the subdivision.
We are located two blocks from the Cafe de Paris Bakery.
We are right across from the Nosara Civic Association offices.
Between our place and the beach, there is a narrow wildlife preserve. No one is actually allowed to build right on the beach and the preserve was originally designed as a golf course fairway. The golf course was never built and the Civic Association acquired the property so it will remain as a nature preserve.
You can drive to the beach via a short connecting road but no vehicles are allowed on the beach.
You can hear the relentless surf but you would have to be a really tall person to see the beach from our place.
To reach the beach, you merely walk down a wee trail through the trees of the nature preserve and voila! You are on the warm sand looking over the Pacific Ocean.
The picture below is a good shot of Olga's Beach which is just a nice walk around the point at the North end of our beach. And how about the live volcano (about 4 hour's drive northeast from Nosara). That puff of smoke above the cone is real!
