Costa Rica things to do

Learning in the rainforest, far from the madding crowd.Local students and Canadian volunteers enrich another, smaller and less overrun forest preserve with courses in biology students. There are mile...

An tropical rainforest concentrated on one little island. Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropi...

Have breakfast overlooking Manuel Antonio National Park.This is one of the prettiest places in the entire country, composed of bungalows high up over the sea, furnished with antiques and local artifa...

Arenal Volcano for pyrotechnic magic . Lake Arenal, 40 km long, is one of the best wind-surfing locales in the world. The volcano itself, 1633 m tall, acts to channel the winds over the lake. The Volcá...

Early risers can enjoy the most beautiful view in the country . From the edge of the crater of Irazú volcano, 3432 m, which last erupted between 1963 and 1965, you will experience not just a cold wind,...

The prettiest of all butterfly gardens lies in the highlands. A tropical garden in the village of Guácima, 15 km to the southwest is home to several hundred species of butterflies, ranging from the tin...

This ritual site from pre-Columbian days is the most important dig in Costa Rica . 20 km north of Turrialba, on the slopes of the volcano of the same name, lies Costa Rica’s most important archeologica...