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....

The customs gate at Peñas Blancas, on the Nicaraguan side of the Costa Rica border. Photo: Brian Johnson & Dane Kantner, CC BY-SA 2.0. ...

Arrival day at Liberia airport (Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport, LIR) in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, where our shuttle drivers meet ...

San Juan del Sur bay on a sunny day, seen from the Cristo de la Misericordia lookout. Photo: Lubi nuñez, CC BY-SA 4.0 (edited). Around ...

Playa Gigante, a short drive south of Popoyo on the same Rivas coast. Photo: Ridiculopathy, CC0 (edited). Yes, Popoyo is a good place t...

Pink-and-gold Pacific sunset over the shore break at Playa Avellanas, Guanacaste — the sand this day trip is built around. Photo: DanielaA...