Thailand is not Costa Rica
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It's an simple mistake to make, on an emoji keyboard 🇹🇭and 🇨🇷are easy to confuse. So here in honour of the people who make the mistake are some top differences between Thailand and Costa Rica.
mattUpdated 2 years ago
🇨🇷A perfect diving spot in Costa Rica to get away from the crowds. You might also spot a humpback or pilot whale during the migration season!
Drake Bay, Costa Rica
🇹🇭Made famous by the Leonardo Di Caprio movie "The Beach" Maya Beach is surrounded by iconic cliffs. Unfortuantely its popularity led to an influx of tourists, spoiling the idyllic charm of the white sands. The beach is now closed for several years while the ecosystem recovers.
Maya Bay, Thailand
🇨🇷This volcano last erupted in 2010, and it is shaped like a large cone, rising above the tropical forests. It's a great place for walking or enjoying a hot spring.
Arenal Volcano, Alajuela Province, San Carlos, Costa Rica
🇹🇭Volcanoes? In Thailand? Well, not active ones. But in Buriram province you can find Prasat Hin Phanom Rung, is a Hindu Khmer Empire temple complex set on the rim of an extinct volcano. Sounds like something straight out of Tomb Raider!
- +66 44 666 251
บ้านดอนหนองแหน Ta Pek, Amphoe Chaloem Phra Kiat, Chang Wat Buri Ram 31110, Thailand
🇨🇷One of the most famous national parks in Costa Rica features a vast diversity of tropical plants and wildlife, from three-toed sloths and endangered white-faced capuchin monkeys to hundreds of bird species.
- +506 2777 5185
Puntarenas Province, Quepos, Costa Rica
🇹🇭Elephants, Sambar deer, Gaur, Civet, Porcupines and Wild boars are just a few of the animals you may see in one of Thailand's most scenic national parks, located under two hours from Bangkok!
- +66 86 092 6529
Hin Tung, Mueang Nakhon Nayok District, Nakhon Nayok 26000, Thailand
🇨🇷CHOMP CHOMP. This river in Rio Tárcoles is famous for its huge American crocodiles. If you dare, walk on out over the bridge and look down to see the crocs sunning themselves on the embankment.
River Tarcoles, Costa Rica
🇹🇭The Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo is a crocodile zoo in Samut Prakan Province, near Bangkok, which claims to hold the world's largest crocodile in captivity, named Yai, measuring 6 m and weighing 1,114 kg. Yai is one among over 100,000 crocodiles at the farm (give or take a few thousand, they sometimes go missing).
- +66 2 703 4891
10280, 555 ท้ายบ้าน ตำบลปากน้ำ อำเภอเมืองสมุทรปราการ สมุทรปราการ 10270, Thailand
