North America

Costa Rica

Costa Rica seduced the young solo traveler me … with visions of tropical beaches, smoking volcanoes, abundant wildlife and friendly locals- Wendy Yanagihara

— Wendy Yanagihara

Place stories in Costa Rica (North America).

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Adventures in La Fortuna
We climbed aboard a flat bottomed boat and sailed along the lake toward La Fortuna and the volcano. The lake is dammed at one end and used …
Monteverde | Cloud Forests and Adventures
After refreshments, it was direct to Montverde, through some incredible terrain, Costa Rica is stunningly verdant and even at higher altitu…
Pacuare & Whitewater Rafting
The alarm at 4:30am signalled the start of one of the main adventure elements of the trip. We would white water raft down the Pacuare river…
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
We then had a 3 hour drive to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, where we checked into rooms with mosquito netting on the beds before all meeting a…
San José
The flight Miami to Costa Rica had some lovely views as we traveled south, although we were nearly redirected to Liberia due to bad weather…
Terrain of Costa Rica
Sunday was an early start though easy to manage as we had all had an early night the night before. Breakfast was very local, and something …