Sophie Pither and family head to Costa Rica’s east coast, for some Caribbean coastal and jungle adventure, plus a luxe hotel that’s grabbing attention
Most people go to Costa Rica and busily criss-cross from coast to coast in an attempt to see absolutely everything. We wanted to focus on getting a real flavour of the country’s Caribbean side. Arriving by tiny plane into Tortuguero National Park, bumping along the skimpy tarmac strip between remote rainforest, river and coast was scary. The sort of fear which, when your heartbeat finally slows, makes you hug your children tight, grateful to be alive. We came for the adrenalin rush, though, to this unspoilt wilderness, to explore the waterways by kayak (no roads here) amid warm downpours; to see a family of spider monkeys holding canopy branches together…
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