Situated at the entrance of Costa Rica’s La Paz Waterfall Gardens is the world’s largest butterfly. This butterfly is gigantic – because it is stationary all day long, you can come at any time and get a real good photograph of the creature. See picture on the left. Actually if you haven’t guess it by now, this isn’t a real live butterfly but a very unique iron sculpture.

Walking into the enclosed butterfly observatory, you will be greeted by many colorful and exotic butterflies flitting about. According to their website, there are over 20 species of butterflies in cultivation here. Located in the central highlands of Costa Rica, I visited this relatively new eco-attraction a couple of years ago and I was quite impressed. I highly recommend La Paz as a must see for nature lovers and for butterfly enthusiasts who’d like to brush up on their tropical butterfly identification skills.

La Paz Waterfall Garden is one of the featured attractions on many of our tours to Costa Rica

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