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…
Costa Rica – Carara and Arenal
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…
Costa Rica – Tortuguero and San Jose
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…