COSTA RICA

WHY COSTA RICA? Costa Rica has more protected land than any other country in proportion to its size. You can experience cloud forest, volcanoes, mangrove swamps and Pacific and Caribbean coastline, encountering a diverse range of animals and birds as you go!

WHERE TO STAY: Esquinas Rainforest Lodge is a remarkable place. This beautiful eco-friendly property in the heart of primary rainforest allows for total immersion in nature – soak up the sounds and colours of the jungle as you discover its many trails and pathways. Fall asleep to a chorus of frogs and insects and awake to birdsong all around you.

WILDLIFE: There is a marvellous, often-bizarre variety of animals here. Catatonic sloths lazily crawl along cecropia branches, screaming howler monkeys rustle the forest canopy, toucans screech overhead, scarlet macaws add brilliant flashes of red, blue and gold to the foliage, and humpback whales breed in the waters offshore.

HIDDEN GEMS: Costa Rica’s most secluded and tranquil region is undoubtedly Corcovado National Park on the remote Osa Peninsula. This is an area that has been described as the ‘most biologically intense place on Earth’. There are 13 major ecosystems and scientists have recorded half of all of the species in Costa Rica on this peninsula alone. Stay a few days to really discover what the area has to offer.