Northern Plains Features

Northern Plains Features

• Top Reasons to Go to the Northern Plains
  

  Arenal Volcano: You can hear the rumblings of the world's third-most-active volcano for miles around, and, on clear nights, watch crimson rock... 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

• Arenal Volcano
  

  The 2-km-high (1-mile-high) Arenal Volcano, 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 a no more diverse... Read more

• What Is a Cloud Forest?
  

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