This garden is well worth taking the kids. There are a wide variety of animals to see and they will enjoy the cool walk of the waterfall.

The dormant volcano of Irazu near San Jose was our first wildlife experience in Costa Rica

As part of our family sabbatical in Costa Rica we decided to spend a week in La Fortuna. I loved our Airbnb here so much I wish we had stayed there at least a month.

If we were not on a tight budget I wouldn’t have stayed in this hostel and I would’ve completely missed this beautiful experience

It’s not often that we split into two groups but for this activity it was necessary: Lui would not be allowed to go on a one kilometre flying fox.

There was no guilt when we ditched the kids in the middle of this magical forest.

We enjoyed three nights of idyllic tropical beach life in a hotel that was literally on the beach of Samara.

There is such a variety of wildlife and it’s so easy to spot in Costa Rica that I felt like I was part of an Animal Planet documentary. We saw squirrels, timid iguanas, a cheeky monkey ,a massive spider and howler monkeys.