Best New Trips in the World: Hike and Rappel on Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast

For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Costa Rica. The world's far corners are now well within reach.

Costa Rica: Coast Confidential

With Costa Rica’s Pacific coast looking more and more like Southern California’s —overdeveloped and overcrowded—it’s a far cry from the adventure getaway of 15 years ago. And until recently, the country’s other coast, the Caribbean, simply wasn’t a viable alternative. But the extension of a paved road to CR’s far east has unlocked the area’s beaches and parks, and inspired one outfitter to launch a new trip. Wildland Adventures’ nine-day excursion begins near the Panama border at Selva Bananito Lodge, a family-owned eco-retreat on a private, 2,000-acre preserve. You can hike through rain forest, rappel down an 80-foot waterfall, and help reintroduce a tropical hardwood forest to the area by planting trees on a rundown 19th-century banana plantation.

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Comments

[Where is Singapore]

i love the adventure but too risky for me.

[Healthy Options]

It is a great way to do adventure plus exercise. I love that experience.

[Kosherica Kosher Vacations]

Love this photo! The Caribbean is indeed a wonderful place to visit. If you're considering taking a kosher vacation trop to The Caribbean, Kosherica had some great cruise packages you can check out as an option.

[Costa Rica Rental Car]

Yes, Costa Rica is a real beatuy for the natural water falls and many other natrual resource making it an excellent spot for vacation.

You know last year, three leading traveling agencies of USA has voted the Costa Rica as the best spot for Christmas Vacatoin too?

[dhea]

I have read the whole article based on the new trips of the world.I like the post and snaps which give good evidence.I like the places of Costa Rica.I agree with the stand that the extension of a paved road to CR’s far east has unlocked the area’s beaches and parks, and inspired one outfitter to launch a new trip.