From February 9–17, 2024, explore the beauty of Costa Rica with Dr. Tom Bultman. This tour begins by exploring the lush La Paz Waterfall Gardens. This eco-park oasis features five waterfalls, hiking ...

Costa Rican forests are teaming with biological diversity. There are four exquisite forest types found in Costa Rica: cloud forests, Caribbean rainforests, Pacific rainforests and dry forests. Costa ...

This August, my family and I spent a week and a half in Monteverde, in north-central Costa Rica. This is the tropics, but at an elevation of 4,500 feet (1,400 meters) or so. This well-preserved swath ...

Visiting a cloud forest and traversing a gorgeous hanging bridge is one of the best things to do in Costa Rica for an unforgettable vacation. In the midst of Costa Rica's enchanting cloud forests is a ...

Amazingly, many tourists still believe they will see lava flowing, probably due to inaccurate websites and guidebooks that fail to note its inactivity. The current Frommer's Costa Rica refers to the ...

There are a handful of destinations around the world where the prospect of animal interaction is central to a visit. Costa Rica is one of them. Each time I’ve visited Costa Rica I’ve taken home ...

Pesticides from coffee and banana cultivation are accumulating in Costa Rica’s biodiverse cloud forests according to research published earlier this month in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T).

This post is part of our special coverage Forest Focus: Amazon and Global Development 2011. The Monteverde Now project documents the stories of 11 members of the Monteverde Community through short ...