How dupe destinations, off-season timing and ground travel save money in the popular and increasingly expensive Central ...

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 ...

Exploring the South Pacific Coast can lead you to one of Costa Rica’s old beach towns, still untouched by urbanization and overwhelming commercialism. Dominical is essentially a cool, laid-back Costa ...

DOMINICAL, Puntarenas — Near-death experience? Pshaw. Jordan was nowhere near losing his life — just his pants. But that didn’t stop two lifeguards from dashing along the beach toward him, and one ...

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 ...

My 20-year-old daughter Emma has been following me on strange trips all her life — Beijing on a bike, rural Romania, the frozen Boundary Waters in January and campouts at 10,000 feet that left her ...