The Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) is known as the pato real in Spanish. That translates to royal duck in English but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how it earned such a moniker. I’m sure ...

The village of Tortuguero is a peninsula located on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. This area is only accessible by boat or plane and there are no cars in the town. In other words, it is a ...

Tortuguero National Park is ranked #8 out of 24 things to do in Costa Rica. See pictures and our review of Tortuguero National Park.

Named after the Spanish tortuga, meaning turtle, the main attraction in Tortuguero, Costa Rica is the endangered green sea turtles, who come to nest in the black volcanic sands of the park’s 11 ...

Tortuguero, one of the world’s best places to see nesting sea turtles, is the smallest of towns. On our first morning, we watched a short film narrated by the director of the Sea Turtle Conservancy.

So we spent our first night in Costa Rica in the capital city of San Jose, waiting for our jungle adventure to start. Modesto and Francesca picked us up from the Don Carlos Hotel promptly at 6 a.m.

For a country roughly the size of Lake Michigan, Costa Rica is a cornucopia of incredible things to do. I’ve been metaphorically mining “the rich coast” for memorable experiences since 2013 ...