In Costa Rica, every town has four things: a soccer field, a church, a bar, and a Chinese restaurant. It’s also the land where drivers maneuver along curvy, rutted mountain roads with the steering wheel in one hand and a…

In Costa Rica, every town has four things: a soccer field, a church, a bar, and a Chinese restaurant. It’s also the land where drivers maneuver along curvy, rutted mountain roads with the steering wheel in one hand and a…
We descended from the cloud forest in Monteverde to Carara National Park on the Pacific Coast. It’s in a transitional zone where the hot, dry tropical forest to the north meets the wetter tropical rainforest to the south, creating great…
Our next destination in Costa Rica was Tortuguero National Park, a roadless area of rainy jungles and floodplains where several rivers empty into the Caribbean Sea. It was incredibly muggy and buggy, and I had miscalculated by booking us into…