From thick, tangled rainforest and active volcanoes to monkeys, coatis and tapirs, this is a country with plenty to discover ...

The main restaurant has a crowd-pleasing menu of really very good dishes, and the open-air dining room is fun too, with its view of tropical plants ... Costa Rica is mostly a thickly tangled ...

Down here most people live to 90 and a lot to 100. It’s about no stress, good food and families being together’ ...

Other Blue Zones are Okinawa in Japan, Ikaria in Greece, Sardinia, Loma Linda in California and most recently Singapore. I’ve chosen to explore Nicoya, home to one of the highest concentrations of ...

Now in every gift shop in the small Central American country you’ll see Boruca-style masks painted in garish acrylic paints, often depicting plants or animals such ... seen from the Veragua Rainforest ...

Retirees can enjoy exploring Costa Rica's natural beauty, including its remote beaches, dense rainforests and thermal ... more than 2,500 species of plants – including 420 varieties of orchids ...

Descend into the mists of Costa Rica's cloud forest ... Experience the Oso Peninsula's lowland Rainforest where brillant scarlet macaws and sleeoy sloths dwell in on the the most bio-diverse ...