Travel Inspiration

Quepos' newly inaugurated Marina Pez Vela offers room for 200 boats, with future plans for a shopping center and hotel development. It is hoped that the marina will bring a new market and jobs to the region.

Visit a real, 1300 hectare tropical rainforest! The Veragua park offers hiking trails, educational exhibits, canopy tours, a sky tram, waterfalls and a close look at the interesting wildlife that calls the region home.

The Nauyaca Waterfalls are a legend in Costa Rica’s southern zone, one famed for its beauty, its 65-meter drop and most of all for the gracious hospitality of a Costa Rican family that invites visitors into its homestead to enjoy the falls.

Enjoy this hands on look into how the second most important export crop in Costa Rica is grown, packed and shipped away for foreign consumption.

If you have ever wanted to drink a glass of milk straight from the cow, take your kids for a ride on a carrousel of real horses, view an unusual pig race or – why not? –ride a water buffalo, it’s all possible at PANACA.

For the uninitiated (as I was), the connection of Land Rover to Costa Rica’s coffee industry is hazy at best. The link, however, was pivotal and reads like a fairy tale.

As the early morning sun tinges the waves a rich orange, my guide, Tony Kast, crosses the river mouth in his dinghy and abandons me on the far.

Fifteen minutes after leaving Liberia, Costa Rica, I arrived at the gates of Africa Mía, the country’s latest and most unique tourist attraction, which offers a remarkable experience known as a “zoo safari”.