Rural life in Costa Rica comes with surprises. From potholes and ahorita to a mystery animal overhead, here’s how I learned to live with a noisy ceiling guest.

Forget what you think you know about the built-up Spanish Costas. The aptly named Costa de la Luz — or ‘Coast of Light’ — is a quiet stretch along Andalucía's lesser-visited Atlantic seaboard, where ...

Discover the tropical coastline of Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, where lush forests meet the Pacific Ocean. Captured from ...

Route 32 in Costa Rica is closed until November 10 for the removal of a 2,500-ton rock at kilometer 31. Find alternate routes.

In Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, life feels calm yet deeply meaningful. It’s one of the world’s five “Blue Zones,” places ...

On 6 November 2025, European Council President António Costa delivered a speech at the COP30 session on ‘Climate and Nature: Forests and Oceans’ in Belém, Brazil.

A surging colon and new 15% U.S. tariffs are battering Costa Rica’s economy, forcing the country to endure slower growth for ...

A clatter of bird call erupts and a few berries fall from the forest canopy high overhead, dislodged by toucans.

Costa Rica's goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will net $41 billion in economic benefits over the next three decades and set an example of the "right road to follow" for other nations, its ...

Different countries have different regulations on pet travel. Read and re-read the rules, and follow them to the letter, before jetting off with Fido in tow.

Explore Costa Rica’s South Pacific coast at Amaka Ocean Living Lodge, a serene eco-retreat on a tropical fjord offering the ...