A short trail through Manuel Antonio to a beach most tourists never find
4.5(2 reviews)
Manuel Antonio
Best Time to Go
“Rainy season brings this place fully alive”
About this place
Inside Manuel Antonio National Park — one of Costa Rica's most visited — a quiet trail branches off the main route near the second beach and descends through dense jungle to a small, rock-sheltered cove. Playa Biesanz is not on most maps and not mentioned at the park entrance. Most of the day-trippers who flood the main beaches never know it exists.
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Location
Manuel Antonio
What People Say
4.5· 2
OA
Omar A.
March 2025
Every person we spoke to inside the park who had done this trail said the same thing: "I can't believe more people don't know about it." A 15-minute walk from the second beach to a cove that holds maybe 10 people. We had it to ourselves. The water is calmer than the main beaches, the capuchins were in the trees above us, and it felt like the park as it used to be.
✦ 15-minute walk from second beach — easy to miss the turning✦ Ask rangers at entrance for the Biesanz branch
VR
Valentina R.
January 2025
Small, quiet, sheltered. The snorkelling was good for a beach inside a national park — we saw parrotfish and a small reef shark at maybe 4 metres. The trail is easy. The cove is the kind of place you want to stay in for the whole afternoon but the park closes at 4pm so time it accordingly.
✦ Park closes 4pm — plan accordingly✦ Small reef shark sighting at 4m depth
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