Welcome - Bienvenida July 2026

Costa Rica, reported from the ground since 1996.

For thirty years Howler has been Costa Rica’s English-language magazine — long enough to have watched fishing villages turn into surf towns, cattle land turn into national park, and a good many travelers decide never to leave.

We cover the country the way people actually live it. Travel and adventure. Wildlife and conservation. Surfing. Food. Arts and culture. And the practical, unglamorous questions that surface once Costa Rica stops being a holiday and starts becoming a life: how residency really works, what a property closing actually involves, whether the numbers add up.

Our writers are here — in Guanacaste and Nosara, out on the Osa, along the Caribbean coast, up in the Central Valley. Everything you read is reported from the ground, not assembled from a distance.

Whether you’re planning two weeks or the rest of your life, Howler is where Costa Rica explains itself.

Escape the ordinary. Embrace the real.