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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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