It’s a good day to be a marine biologist: a bundle of new species has been found living among the deep-sea methane seeps off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. Scientists led by UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

This Central American gem is abounding in rugged terrain and rainforests. It’s the ultimate postcard destination with coastlines bordered by the Caribbean and Pacific oceans on either side. If this ...

Quepos is a small harbor town along Costa Rica's central Pacific coast, just 60 miles southwest of San José. It offers beautiful beaches as well as a selection of charming restaurants ...

Even with all Grylls’s tripwires and man-traps, however, Costa Rica’s tropical rainforest looks resplendent on-screen, and it ...

Welcome to Costa Rica. I grew up in Costa Rica ... The laid-back beach towns that dot this part of the Pacific coast include Nosara, a mecca for surfing and yoga, and my favorite, the lesser ...

Although Costa Rica is small, getting from one end of ... For instance, the trip from San José to the Osa Peninsula on the South Pacific Coast takes roughly nine hours, while flying the distance ...

Costa Rica, a small Central American country nestled between Nicaragua and Panama, is a world-renowned destination for ...

This ambitious project, a joint effort between the Municipality of Carrillo and the Association for the Development of the Marina del Coco (ASODEMAC), promises to redefine this Pacific coast gem ...

This is the perfect trip to introduce your friends or fam to some fishing while at the same time enjoying the beautiful jungles, beaches, and secluded wonders found around Flamingo in Guanacaste. With ...

Next, we traveled to The Scarlet Villas, perched amid the lush mountains of Ojochal on Costa Rica’s southern Pacific coast. This resort, nestled deeper into the rainforest, provided a communal ...

few offer the rich bounty of ecotourism opportunities found across Costa Rica. Equipped with a Pacific and Caribbean coast as well as vast swathes of high-altitude forest, this lush country has ...

Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. A country so lush over half of it is blanketed in forest, Costa Rica sets the bar sky high as ...