The Pacific (Guanacaste & Osa)4 places
- Manuel Antonio & Drake BayCosta Rica's most-loved small park, where rainforest runs right down to white beaches and sloths, capuchins and toucans…
- The Osa Peninsula & CorcovadoCosta Rica at its wildest: a remote rainforest peninsula that National Geographic called the most biologically intense…
- Cerro ChirripóCosta Rica's highest point at 3,821 m, in a landscape nobody associates with the country — frost-hollowed páramo and…
- San Gerardo de Dota & the Zona de los SantosA steep river valley at 2,200 m in the Talamanca mountains, reached over a pass Costa Ricans call the Hill of Death —…
The Caribbean Coast2 places
- TortugueroA village on a sand spit between the Caribbean and a system of freshwater canals, with no road to it — you arrive by…
- Cahuita & Puerto ViejoThe side of Costa Rica that does not feel like Costa Rica — Afro-Caribbean, Creole-speaking, reggae on the beach road…
The Central Valley & Volcanoes1 place
- Monteverde & ArenalThe heart of Costa Rica's famous ecotourism: a misty cloud forest dripping with life and a perfect volcano cone rising…