Costa Rica

Puerto Limón, Costa Rica

 

 

This is the nerve center of Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, birthplace of United Fruit and capital of Limón Province, traditionally a world apart from Spanish-settled western Costa Rica and still in many ways removed from San José’s sphere of influence. (more)

 

Surfing Costa Rica's Salsa Brava

 

It’s the biggest break in Costa Rica, for expert surfers only and dangerous even then: Salsa Brava, named for the heaping helping of  “sauce” it serves up on the sharp, shallow reef, continually collecting its debt of fun in broken skin, boards and bones. (more)

Hot Climbs

 

Costa Rica and Nicaragua share one of the world’s geothermal hot spots, where volcano addicts can climb baked cinder cones, relax in healing hot springs or even scuba dive into the blasted-out heart of a 200-century-old eruption. (more)