Caminos de Osa: Costa Rica Tourism That Helps Costa Ricans
- JUL 01, 2018Foreign, well-to-do business owners tend to dominate the tourism landscape in the Osa, but an innovative project called Caminos de Osa is trying to change that by empowering l
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Rafael Gallo: Costa Rica Ecotourism Pioneer of Ríos Tropicales – Whitewater Rafting
- JUL 01, 2018How do you open Costa Rica to millions of visitors a year while protecting and preserving the natural beauty that draws them? “We’ve been at it for 33 years, before ecoto
Costa Rica Haunted Hospital
- JUN 01, 2018Costa Rica Haunted Hospital: Sanatorio Duran, It’s supposed to be the most haunted building in Costa Rica, and whether you’re a ghost hunter or a skeptic, I predict it wil
Off The Beaten Path – Llanos de Cortés Waterfall
- MAY 03, 2018Some say Llanos de Cortés is the most beautiful waterfall in Costa Rica, and in this country that’s saying a lot. Thirty minutes south of Liberia near Bagaces, these falls
Off The Beaten Path – Tapanti, Remote but reachable day hike out of San José
- MAR 31, 2018[vc_row full_width=”full_width”][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you look up a map of Tapantí/Macizo de la Muerte National Park, and look to the southeast, you will
Off the Beaten Path – Cote Lake, History and Mystery at Heart
- MAR 02, 2018[vc_row full_width=”full_width”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Centuries before modern cartographers put Cote Lake on the map for globally astonishing reasons, its loc
Off the Beaten Path – Nauyaca Waterfalls: Ride, Swim, Jump!
- JAN 31, 2018Costa Rica is renowned for its incomparable waterfalls, which spill from dizzying heights into cool pools where you can swim, take photos and even leap from the cliffs if you
Off the Beaten Path – Guaitil, The Real Deal
- JAN 05, 2018[vc_row full_width=”full_width”][vc_column][vc_column_text]To be sure, the tiny village of Guaitil is off the beaten path, but not too far off. Nor is it a difficu
Off The Beaten Path – “Loco”motion Adventures in Costa Rica I
- AUG 04, 2017When I was asked to write a Howler travel article, my thoughts immediately went to all the different ways I’ve traveled and survived in various modes of “loco”mo
Off The Beaten Path – Cerro de la Muerta
- JUL 04, 2017[vc_row full_width=”full_width”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cerro de la Muerte (Mountain of Death) comes by its name honestly as a place where lives can be lost in