The name Costa Rica - Spanish for "rich coast" - seems particularly apt at Manuel Antonio National Park on a sunny morning during the rainy season. As I walk through the park, its entrance a mere ...

A: If you’re planning a trip to Costa Rica–a.k.a., the unofficial adventure sports capital of the world–the hardest question of all is what not to do. Since you’ve narrowed it down to surfing, however ...

Costa Rica—which received a 2019 Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations’s highest environmental honor, for its role in protecting nature and combating climate change—hosts plenty of ecotours ...

“The smoky jungle frog is Costa Rica’s largest species of frog and second largest amphibian, only rivaled in size by the giant marine toad,” Tracie emailed. “It has a voracious appetite to match its ...

Delta (0871 221 1222; www.delta.com) flies to San José via Atlanta from Heathrow from £607 return. Thomson (0871 231 4787; www.thomson.co.uk) flies from Gatwick to Liberia, Costa Rica, from £459 ...

If it weren't for the crocodiles, we might have seen the turtles hatch and take their first wobbly steps to the sea. But to get to their remote location at Buena Vista beach on the Nicoya Peninsula ...

We had walked only a few metres from our own tent when our naturalist guide, Ana Villalobos, shone her flashlight upwards, onto the upskirt of a palm tree, illuminating a small bat with a bright white ...

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