Costa Rica is gearing up to host the 2009 ISA Billabong World Surfing Championship in Playa Hermosa, July 31 to Aug. 9, with 40 nations and 280 surfers participating. This year's competition will be ...

Travel + Leisure's 2024 Destination of the Year, Costa Rica has more than 900 miles of coastline, beckoning surfers, swimmers, and sunbathers to its sandy shores. Better yet, every beach is public, so ...

In a week of stunning surfing by Costa Rica’s junior national surf team in Portugal’s São Miguel Island in the Azores, it was the work of two females who helped the team make history with a seventh ...

Costa Rica’s very best surfers will be back to defend their world title next month in their home waters. The Costa Rica Surf Federation announced its star-studded roster Wednesday ahead of the World ...

GUIONES, Costa Rica (AP) – A vacation to escape the cold led us to Costa Rica's Pacific Coast, where we went surfing, horseback riding, deep-sea fishing and even visited a dry tropical forest. Our ...

A: If you’re planning a trip to Costa Rica–a.k.a., the unofficial adventure sports capital of the world–the hardest question of all is what not to do. Since you’ve narrowed it down to surfing, however ...

A chilled coconut, cracked open fresh, was waiting on the beach. After a grueling surf, battling rip currents, overhead sets of beachbreak chaos, and keeping an eye out for hungry crocodiles, the cold ...

Surfers and wannabes have been flocking to Costa Rica’s Guanacaste Province since the film The Endless Summer 2—documentarian Bruce Brown’s follow-up to his 1966 surf classic—popularized it two ...

Nosara Paddlesurf provides expert instruction to help guests develop their SUP surfing abilities while riding warm-water waves in Costa Rica. With the United States experiencing one of its coldest ...

If You Go* Lodging: Vacation Rentals by Owner, vrbo.com* Getting there: Nearest commercial airport: Daniel Oduber International Airport, Liberia (70 miles); Juan Santamaria International Airport, ...