The typical Costa Rican tourist walks off the airplane equipped with a fairly predictable to-do list. A zip-line tour usually breaks the top 10, along with something related to monkeys or toucans, and ...

A chilled coconut, cracked open fresh, was waiting on the beach. After a grueling surf, battling rip currents, overhead sets of beachbreak chaos, and keeping an eye out for hungry crocodiles, the cold ...

It looks like Jason Torres wants a repeat of his excellent water work in 2015, the year he was crowned the Costa Rican National Surfing Champion. With a first-place finish in the Copa HOOKD contest in ...

Richard Abrams, now retired and living near Playa Dominical, Costa Rica, worked as a lifeguard in Imperial Beach, California, for 18 years. He was hired and trained by Dempsey Holder and mentored by ...

Tai-Ran Niew is in his Notting Hill flat in England, flipping through surfing magazines. After returning from two weeks of surf and Spanish lessons in Dominical, a tiny fishing village on the Pacific ...

Beaches that stretch on as far as the eye can see, lush jungle, forested mountains … It's no wonder that Costa Rica is considered by many to be pure paradise. However, an influx of tourism over the ...