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...
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...
The first thing Carly Crow remembers is the cold. She was thirteen, far from home in southern Georgia, sleeping in a tent under a Wyoming sky as part of a Girl Scouts trip called Wyoming Wildlife Wonders, a journey through Grand Teton and Yellowstone. Then one evening...
Women travel solo in Alaska every year, and most of them say the same thing afterwards: the scale of the landscape, the quality of the wildlife, and the communities they encountered were nothing like what they expected going in. Alaska has a reputation for being...
