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 ...

Costa Rica is a small but stunning country in Central America, located between Nicaragua (north) and Panama (south). It is unique because it borders both the Pacific Ocean (west) and the Caribbean Sea ...

Costa Rica boasts hundreds of beaches across more than 800 miles of coastline. For a year, Carlos Alpízar and José Pablo Alfaro set out to explore them. To determine the country’s best beaches, they ...

This whole tour was born out of a desire to visit a special beach. I’ve heard about Quesera because it hosts a fascinating and peculiar tour: the bioluminescence tour. Our journey began very early in ...

Costa Rica’s wildlife-rich rainforests and soaring volcanoes can sometimes distract from the fact that this country has some of the prettiest beaches on the planet. The coastline is just as diverse as ...

Are you considering Punta Leona beach, Costa Rica, for your travel plans? With thick forests and spectacular white sand, this is the Central Pacific coastline at its best. Yet, surprisingly, this gem ...

Hunter Braithwaite finds more that great surf along the Costa Rican coastline. Costa Rican roads are a cruel joke played on Americans, I thought, teary-eyed, as I clutched my forehead, which had just ...