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What does a day at adventure camp look like? No two days are the same, because we are always doing something different. But the average day revolves around meals, as every day should, for anyone. I have guided trips across Costa Rica for more than 25 years, and our...

"Is it safe?" is the first question a parent asks a teacher about a trip to Costa Rica, and the first question that teacher asks me. I have been answering it for more than 25 years, and my answer has always been yes. I am Costa Rican, I have built and guided school...

Every teacher who calls me asks this question first, usually because a budget committee or a parent night is waiting on the answer. You need a number for the slide. I am not going to give you one number, because any single number I print would be wrong for your group....

In the early 1980s I saw my first sea turtle at Playa Grande on Costa Rica's North Pacific coast. We were staying at Playa Tamarindo, and my parents had heard that turtles nested on the next beach up. They piled all five of us kids into the cars along with some family...

I have been running student trips in Costa Rica for just over 25 years, and the moment I watch for has never changed. It usually arrives late in a trip, at a group "pulse check" or the final closing ceremony. A student will say some version of "I get it now." This is...

A morning to remember started out flat and quiet, the kind of glassy Pacific where the water and the sky blur into one soft line. I was paddling on my SUP, half-daydreaming, when the ocean about twenty meters ahead of me split open. A humpback whale came straight up...

Pack your sense of adventure and head to Costa Rica’s west coast for a spectacular, sustainable vacation. In a world that moves faster every day, where comfort and immediacy often define the way we travel, there is something powerful about choosing to move at the pace...

Pack your sense of adventure and head to Costa Rica’s west coast for a spectacular, sustainable vacation. Guanacaste has been an eco-tourist haven for decades. If you haven’t been to Guanacaste, be warned: it may change you forever.  For the eco-traveler, Guanacaste...

Costa Rica is a world leader in the ecotourism movement. Photo by Etienne Delorieux on Unsplash When you close your eyes and picture paradise, you’re probably conjuring up an image very close to real-life Costa Rica. Shores lined with pristine beaches, cloud forest...