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Costa Rica
Concierge.com's insider take:
Development has forever changed the landscape of the Nicoya Peninsula, which juts into the Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica's northern border with Nicaragua. Fishing villages are packed with t-shirt shops, and once-pristine stretches of shoreline are crowded with hotels and condos. But the region does have some spectacular beaches in the Guanacaste area (Playa Tamarindo, Panamá, Coco, Flamingo, Ocotal, Hermosa, and Grande, to name a few), as well as equally spectacular hotels; guests tend to stay here for some R&R after their adventures are done. And there are plenty of adventures to be had nearby—for example, at Rincón de la Vieja National Park and its namesake volcano (506-2666-5051; www.costarica-nationalparks.com). There are three more volcanoes—Tenorio, Orosi, and Miravalles—in the Guanacaste Mountain range, plus a remarkable biological inventory in the tropical dry forest of the Santa Rosa Sector of the national park.
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