Cultural Heritage & Gardens

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Walking in Jaco, you’ll see a lot of restaurants, souvenir shops, and stores clustered together along the main street near the beach. But if you …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 There’s always something new to discover when traveling around Costa Rica. Usually, it is a hidden waterfall or amazing wildlife encounter. But on a recent …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Not far from San Jose, on the outskirts of the city of Heredia, is a beautiful, little-known botanical garden. El Arca Botanical Garden has several …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 When Costa Rica city dwellers want a relaxing time away, they often drive into the nearby hills to find a slice of nature. In this …

Last Updated: September 3, 2025 Many visitors to Costa Rica want to see hummingbirds. While these tiny birds are indeed abundant in Costa Rica, when viewing them in the wild, …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Costa Rica has a strong Catholic heritage. In fact, Catholicism is the country’s official religion. About three out of four Costa Ricans identify themselves as …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Costa Rica is said to hold as much as five percent of the world’s total biodiversity. For such a small country, that means that around …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Not far from Costa Rica’s capital city of San Jose is the Botanical Orchid Garden. This little-known garden in La Garita may not see a …

Last Updated: July 18, 2025 In a recent post, we let you know about a fantastic rural tourism project in the town of Dos Brazos de Rio Tigre near Puerto …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Outside the world of ornithology (the study of birds), the name Alexander Skutch might not be at all familiar. But much of what the world …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Long before ecotourism vans took to the roads of Costa Rica, there was another much simpler mode of transportation: the oxcart. Brightly painted with intricate …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Set on the jungle-rich slopes of the Turrialba Volcano is one of the most important archaeological sites in Costa Rica, the Guayabo National Monument. Thought …

Last Updated: August 4, 2025 Having moved to Costa Rica from the United States, we weren’t sure what to expect when we received our first Costa Rican wedding invitation. Feeling …