Northern Plains Features

Northern Plains Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Walk in a cloud: Explore Monteverde's misty world on treetop walkways up to 41 meters (138 feet) off the ground.... read more

• Caño Negro
  

  Think a smaller version of Florida's Everglades and you'll have a good picture of the Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Caño Negro.... read more

• Volcán Arenal
  

  The 2-km-high (1-mi-high) Volcán Arenal, Costa Rica's youngest and most active volcano, dominates the region's landscape.... read more

• Poás Volcano
  

  Towering north of Alajuela, the verdant Poás Volcano is covered with a quilt of farms and topped by a dark green shawl of cloud forest... read more

• Eco-Lodges in the Northern Plains
  

  This territory as a whole doesn't garner the attention in eco-circles that other parts of Costa Rica do, but the country has no more diverse... read more

• What Is a Cloud Forest?
  

  Cloud forests are a type of rain forest, but are very different from the hot, humid lowland forests with which most people are familiar. First... read more

• Certificate of Sustainable Tourism
  

  One trip to Costa Rica and you'll swear everything here is eco-lodges, ecotourism, eco-this, eco-that. But sustainability, the buzzword in Costa... read more

• Bird Country
  

  Nearly 850 bird species have been identified in Costa Rica, more than in the United States and Canada combined. Consequently, bird-watchers flock... read more