Costa Rica
A 10-day trip to Costa Rica (San José & Monteverde)
Costa Rica is pura vida in two weeks — cloud forests, volcanoes, two coasts, and the world's greenest easy ecotourism.
Costa Rica is the world's ecotourism model — cloud forests (Monteverde), an active volcano (Arenal), surf beaches (Tamarindo, Santa Teresa), and wildlife in every direction. Use San José as the airport gateway, not a stay; head to the cloud forest and the volcanoes. Go in the dry season (December–April); rainforest is the point.
Trip length
10 days
What your 10-day plan includes
- A day-by-day itinerary with neighborhoods clustered so you spend less time in transit.
- Real budget awareness — a target, an estimate, and a status you can dial up or down.
- Recommendations shaped by your pace, food priorities, group, and must-dos.
- Swap anything, improve any day, refine in any direction without starting over.
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