You don't at Cahuita National Park. Cahuita is located near Puerto Viejo on Costa Rica's quieter Caribbean coast. Long stretches of often-empty beaches line the edge of a lush tropical jungle ...

Two-toed sloths dangle languid from ceiba branches, amber-billed toucans fly low over forest-fringed rivers, and newborn sea turtles scurry to the ocean from Costa Rica's Caribbean shore.

The Caribbean Coast doesn’t experience Costa Rica’s typical weather patterns. From May through November, when much of the country is wet and green, this area is dry and sunny. A handful of ...

Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast is an entirely different experience from its Pacific counterpart, in both atmosphere and wave options. If the Pacific side is characterized by playful beachbreaks ...

Though Costa Rica is a small country, it boasts coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Traveling between ...

and Costa Rica's forests burst with green foliage. While planning your trip, keep in mind that the weather varies by region. In the thick forests of the Caribbean Sea coast and Northern Plains ...

On the Caribbean side of ... try the Camino de Costa Rica, a 174-mile trail that cuts across the country: starting in Barra del Pacuare on the Atlantic coast and eventually winding into the ...

SUMMARY Belongs on List? Yes No Inside the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, the quiet fishing town of Manzanillo is postcard worthy. Cerulean waters, scenic ...