Ballena Marine National Park in Costa Rica reveals a striking landscape of densely forested hills, rugged slopes, and tropical vegetation stretching across the horizon. Thick clouds hang above the ...

Manuel Antonio National Park, located on Costa Rica's Pacific coast in Puntarenas Province, reveals a spectacular tropical ...

Few wildlife encounters rival the sight of a humpback whale breaching from warm tropical waters, and Costa Rica has quietly become one of the best places on the planet to witness exactly that. Thanks ...

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Costa Rica’s national parks are stunning, and protected areas cover 26 percent of the country, nurturing five percent of the world’s known biodiversity. The country is a wildlife paradise, home to ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. In 2019, Costa Rica was ...