Costa Rica Travel Tips
Costa Rica is Central America's jewel. It's an oasis of calm among its turbulent neighbors and an ecotourism heaven, making it one of the best places to experience the tropics with minimal impact. It's also mostly coastline, which means great surfing, beaches galore and a climate built for laziness.
Costa Rica's enlightened approach to conservation has ensured that lush jungles are home to playful monkeys, languid sloths, crocodiles, countless lizards, poison-dart frogs and a mind-boggling assortment of exotic birds, insects and butterflies.
San Jose Suggested Itineraries
Bustling big city or nature’s haven? Whichever way you see it, San Jose offers plenty of excitement for the first time and returning visitor alike. In fact, its obvious architecture of tall ... Continue Reading »
Volcanoes and National Parks
San Jose in Costa Rica is many things to many people. Looming skyscrapers, glitzy malls, busy businessmen and a fast-paced lifestyle is perhaps the more obvious appearance to those visiting on ... Continue Reading »
Big Beer Flavor at Costa Rica’s Tiny Microbrews
When people think about Costa Rican beer—not an altogether unusual sentiment, particularly when presented with the perfect palm-shaded beach hammock—it is usually Imperial that comes to mind. The ... Continue Reading »
Big Beer Flavor at Costa Rica’s Tiny Microbrews
When people think about Costa Rican beer—not an altogether unusual sentiment, particularly when presented with the perfect palm-shaded beach hammock—it is usually Imperial that comes to mind. The ... Continue Reading »
Coffee Harvest in Costa Rica
When the coffee harvest is in full swing in Costa Rica , with much of the country taking time out to pick the sweet, red fruits that were once the foundation of the nation’s economy. Luckily, you ... Continue Reading »
Collection of Pre-Columbian Treasures Headed Home to Costa Rica
Despite its wealth of remarkable pre-Columbian artifacts, including iconic polychrome pottery, enigmatic stone spheres, and priceless jade and gold pieces, Costa Rica once struggled proud to display ... Continue Reading »
Costa Rica and the Space Age
When most people think about visiting Costa Rica , their daydreams include wildlife conservation , national parks , luxury ecotourism, zip-line canopy tours, pristine beaches, epic surfing, and ... Continue Reading »
Costa Rica’s New National Stadium Set for Inauguration
Gracefully open to the capital’s crisp tropical highland climate is this remarkable new structure, the most modern (if not quite the largest) sports venue in Central America: Costa Rica’s magnificent ... Continue Reading »
Costa Rica’s Sloths on the Move, to Monteverde and Around the World
The subject and site of almost all the sloth videos in existence, including Cooke’s, is the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica, also known as Aviarios del Caribe. Located just north of the mellow, ... Continue Reading »
Exploring Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula
At the far southwestern corner of Costa Rica is the Osa Peninsula, dangling lush and tempting from the mainland. It is off the beaten tourist path, well away from more popular, easily accessible ... Continue Reading »
Forbes Names Manuel Antonio as One of the World’s Most Beautiful Parks
Forbes magazine, the respected business biweekly, recently selected Costa Rica‘s Manuel Antonio National Park as one of the world’s most beautiful protected areas. With 7000 of the planet’s ... Continue Reading »
Nature Air Now Connects Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Costa Rica’s northern neighbor, though not yet nearly as popular a destination, has been getting plenty of attention in recent years. Nicaragua boasts unique attractions, such as the architecturally ... Continue Reading »
October Means Carnival in Limón
While the heaviest rains of the season fall on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, keeping crowds small, prices low, and adventurous tourists a bit damp, the Caribbean Coast is gearing up for the ... Continue Reading »
Seamounts Marine Management Area
It’s not easy being green, and Costa Rica‘s protected areas—roughly 20% of the country are expensive to protect. Only the most popular national parks, and those with easily observed borders, have ... Continue Reading »
Sea Turtles in Costa Rica
As Costa Rica's rainy season ("green season" in tourism terminology) intensifies, peaking in September and October, tourism slows to a crawl. Though the warm and jungled beaches may not be ... Continue Reading »
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