The Ermita de la Agonía in Liberia, the "White City" twenty minutes from the airport. Photo: Kognos, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and br...

Tamarindo Beach on a clear dry-season afternoon. Photo: Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped and brightened. Costa Rica does not raise turk...

Illustrative image, AI-generated Ask a surfer in Nicaragua where the most consistent waves are, and you will often hear one word: Popoy...

Illustrative image, AI-generated Tamarindo is easy to misjudge from a map. It looks like a single beach town, but the estuary at the no...

Illustrative image, AI-generated Most people find San Juan del Sur the same way: a friend's photo of a horseshoe bay, a fishing fle...

Mombacho Volcano from the Pan-American Highway, the view many travelers get on the road south from Managua. Photo: FurlongWiki, CC BY-SA 4....

Mud pools and mineral stained rock below the forest at Rincón de la Vieja, Guanacaste, on a clear midday in November. Photo: François Bianc...

Illustrative image, AI-generated. There is one number in Nicaragua that has not moved all year: 36.6243. That is how many córdobas the Cen...

Playa Gigante on the Rivas coast, mid morning on December 16, with fishing pangas pulled up on the sand. A December morning on Nicaragua...