Most guides to what to pack for Costa Rica are written for the whole country, offering one long list that covers the beach, the volcano, and the cloud forest all at once. This one is built around a single, specific trip, one of the Costa Rica trips for women that Her...
Scarlet macaws are among the most recognizable birds on Earth, and one of the tropical birds Costa Rica is most closely associated with. The Osa Peninsula is one of the last strongholds where a wild, self-sustaining population has never disappeared. Here are the...
Costa Rica covers just 0.03 percent of the planet’s land, yet estimates place its share of the world’s known species between 4 and 6 percent, with the country’s own tourism board citing the figure at nearly 6 percent. These Costa Rica rainforest...
If you have searched “best time visit Costa Rica”, “best time Costa Rica wildlife”, or “when to go Costa Rica”, the honest answer is that it depends on what you want to see. Costa Rica’s wildlife season splits into two halves, and dry season and wet season shape...
The Osa Peninsula holds roughly half of Costa Rica’s species across just 3 percent of the country’s land, which is why National Geographic has called it the most biologically intense place on Earth. Costa Rica has protected more than 25 percent of its own...
