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Follow the Experts to Pura Vida

Whether you want to rough it in the jungle or fish in the lap of luxury, the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica offers a wide variety of fishing opportunities with a pace to suite anyone. With a highly developed tourist infrastructure and a modern highway system, ...

Pura Vida On a Whim

As I walked through the building, men offered to carry my board bag while others just gave me strange looks – here was a girl traveling alone in a Latin American country, carrying a massive board bag. They probably didn't see that every day, and I ...

Visiting the Sleeping Giant

Due to the growing popularity of ecotourism in Costa Rica, it was easy to find transportation from Monteverde to La Fortuna – both common stopping points for adventure-seeking tourists. I simply let the hostel owners know what time my brother and I wanted ...

Hiking Through the Clouds

My brother and I were fortunate to get a seat on the bus from San Jose to Monteverde. Unlike our first bus ride, this four hour haul exposed us to Costa Rica’s open countryside, which is distinguished by dangerously steep hills and mountains spotted with ...

Home Away from Home

I woke up around six o’clock the next morning, which typically only happens about every other summer solstice. Sunlight was already beaming through the windows and I could hear countless bird calls that were totally foreign to me. I could also hear the ...

Finding Our Way

We met our host for the first time outside the airport in San Jose shortly after our plane landed around 11 p.m. A few days prior, I sent him a picture of me via email so that he knew for whom to look. Within thirty seconds of walking out into the warm, ...

Have Time, Must Travel

A few months after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English, I found myself with plenty of time for reflection as I drove a hospital shuttle around a mile-long circuit for six hours each day. I was given two instructions: do not turn on the radio and ...