Selina Santa Teresa is the best surf location in the area of Santa Teresa, directly at the beach in the surf spot. Santa Teresa is a remote beach town in Costa Rica that seems to have a little something more, a secret power if you like. It's an energy that can’t be explained but can definitely be felt by all. The long white sand beaches, the endless barrels, the music, the parties, the mind-bending culinary experience, and the beautiful people that walk the streets will bring you to Santa Teresa, but it's that magnetizing energy that makes you never want to leave.
Santa Teresa has become one of the top destination surf spots for surfers in search of the best waves in Costa Rica. Because of its rolling coastline, white sand beaches, and notoriously ‘hollow’ low tide waves, Santa Teresa attracts surfers of different levels of expertise. Beginners, intermediates, and advanced surfers alike can find a perfect breaking wave that caters to their level of experience.
Playa Santa Teresa presents a variety of beach breaks, point breaks, and high swells for the more experienced surfers, and Playa Hermosa is a long sandy beach with easy-going beach breaks, both lefts and rights, well suited for surf beginners. The surf is better at low tide when waves tend to be faster. Santa Teresa is also a popular yoga destination.
Nearby surfing spots include Playa El Carmen, Playa Hermosa, Manzanillo, Mal País, and Punta Barrigona. The waves are suitable for beginners, intermediate, and advanced. You can find the best and more consistent Costa Rica waves. Selina Santa Teresa is close to the groceries, bars, and restaurants.
The major swells are from April to October, but the clean surf season is December to April when swell from deep antic lows reach the Pacific coastline with offshore winds a common occurrence. Typically morning surfs are offshore and afternoon is light onshore, make sure you are up early to get those classic glassy sessions.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica is known for its miles of white sandy beaches, monkeys swinging in the trees that line the sand, and endless waves that begged to be ridden. With the name Costa Rica meaning the “rich coast”, it certainly lives up to its name by having some of the best-surfing destinations in the world. From beginner to advanced, there is a wave for everyone along with one of Costa Rica’s hundreds of beaches.
Unpaved roads and hidden paradises have kept these magnificent beaches from becoming overcrowded and will have you feeling as though you are entering a secret paradise. Costa Rica surfing is definitely recommended and is a legendary surfing location and is seen as more of a 'hardcore' destination and for the adventurous, it could be the trip of a lifetime.
Demarcated by Nicaragua in the North and Panama in the South, Costa Rica hugs the Caribbean Sea in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west. A high plateau divides the American cordilleras in the center, bordered by low coastal lands in the east and in the west. More than half of the population live in this plain, with volcanic fertile soil. Mangroves, marshlands, and sandy beaches characterize the Caribbean coast, 212 long.
More cut and rocky, the Pacific coast spreads out 1,016 kilometers, dotted by gulfs and peninsulas. Costa Rica is home to a rich variety of plants and animals. Over 840 species of birds have been identified in Costa Rica. As is the case in much of Central America, the avian species in Costa Rica are a mix of North and South American species. The country's abundant fruit trees, many of which bear fruit year-round, are hugely important to the birds, some of whom survive on diets that consist only of one or two types of fruit.
"Pura Vida" is the most recognizable phrase attached to Costa Ricans and it reflects the inhabitant's positive view of life. Literally translated, the expression means: “pure life” and denotes a simple life, free of stress, a positive, and relaxed feeling.
Distances
- ATM, 2 kilometers
- Surf spots - 10 to 15 minutes
- Town center - a few minutes walk
