Insight Guides Costa Rica: Travel Guide eBook

Insight Guides

• Publisher: Insight Guides
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781839053351
• eBook ISBN: 9781839053597
• Edition: 8
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Costa Rica and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, this Costa Rica guidebook is just the tool you need to accompany you before or during your trip. Whether it's deciding when to go, choosing what to see or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Monteverde Cloud Forest, Manuel Antonio National Park, Playa Montezuma, it will answer all the questions you might have along the way. It will also help guide you when you'll be exploring Tortuguero National Park or discovering the Pacific Crest Trail on the ground. Our Costa Rica travel guide was fully-updated post-COVID-19.  

The Insight Guide COSTA RICA covers: San José, The Central Valley, The Central Pacific, The Northwest Mainland, The Northwest: Nicoya Peninsula.

In this guide book to Costa Rica you will find:

IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES  
Created to provide a deeper dive into the culture and the history of Costa Rica to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics.

BEST OF
The top attractions and Editor's Choice featured in this Costa Rica guide book highlight the most special places to visit.

TIPS AND FACTS
Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to Costa Rica as well as an introduction to Costa Rica's food and drink, and fun destination-specific features.   

PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION
A-Z of useful advice on everything, from when to go to Costa Rica, how to get there and how to get around, to Costa Rica's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more.

COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS
Every part of the destination, from Punta Uva to Manzanillo has its own colour assigned for easy navigation of this Costa Rica travel guide.

CURATED PLACES, HIGH-QUALITY MAPS
Geographically organised text, cross-referenced against full-colour, high-quality travel maps for quick orientation in San José, Osa Peninsula and many other locations in Costa Rica.

STRIKING PICTURES
This guide book to Costa Rica features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Ujarrás and the spectacular Volcán Barva.

Table of contents

• How To Use This E-Book
• Costa Rica’s Top 10 Attractions
• Editor’s Choice
• Introduction: A peaceful nation
• Coast to coast
• Decisive Dates
• Before Columbus
• Conquest
• Colonialism and independence
• Modern times
• The people of Costa Rica
• The Rise and fall of San José
• National parks
• Insight: A passion for plants
• The sports scene
• Big fins and fresh fish
• Insight: Going to extremes
• Costa Rican cooking
• Fruits of Costa Rica
• Coffee culture
• Places
• San José
• The Central Valley
• Insight: Potters, sculptors, and goldsmiths
• The Central Pacific
• The Northwest Mainland
• The Northwest: Nicoya Peninsula
• Insight: Costa Rica’s wings of wonder
• The Northeast
• Insight: Mountains of fire
• The Caribbean Coast
• The South
• Transportation
• A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information
• Language
• Further Reading