Costa Rica
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Costa Rica is one of the world’s most popular eco-tourism destinations, with travellers drawn to national parks, reserves and rainforests. It also grades lodgings for sustainable practices. We select 10 of the best
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Palm-fringed stretches of sand in the middle of nowhere, a beach bar that serves barbecued lobster and mojitos … readers pick their favourite beaches in the Caribbean
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On Costa Rica's lush Caribbean coast, the best guides are the tribespeople keen to show visitors their extraordinary world. John Gimlette and his family are happy to be led
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Central America has a huge choice of accommodation, from budget hostels on the beach to luxury lodges in the rainforest. Here, Been there readers suggest their favourites
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Central America has something for everyone, from surfing down a volcano to surfing in the Pacific, and from rainforest lodges to pensiones in colonial cities
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Looking for a turquoise ocean and a deserted, white-sand beach? Been there readers reveal the most stunning coastal beauty spots in Central and South America
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Whether it's a mini-gap break of one or two months or a full-on backpacking trail you're after, here are our pick of gap-year trips, from Albania to Mexico to Malaysia
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If you want to guarantee temperatures out of the teens, you need to think long-haul. Here's our pick, from Costa Rica to Australia
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Travel expert Tom Hall, from Lonely Planet, offers advice on finding a way to the Ashes in Australia, hitting the Scottish Highlands and getting from Marrakech to Cairo
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Act like Tarzan and Jane, from the woods of West Sussex to the jungle of Costa Rica
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From sexy city hotels to cocktails on a tropical beach, our experts have the lowdown for the loved up
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From Arizona to Tonga, some of the best working holidays around
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Why not go on an adventure with a difference this year - and raise money for your favourite charity at the same time? There are hundreds of events to choose from but here is a selection at home and abroad
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Treks that take in whale-watching in the Azores or tracking cheetahs in the Kalahari
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Canoeing to the ice-cream parlour is Paul Kirkwood's idea of an American dream
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Everything grows in the rainforest, as Catriona Rainsford discovers - the hard way - on a co-operative farm in a Guatemala
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'Heat and altitude sickness, bursts of gasses, avalanches – any of these could finish me off' – Kevin Duncan on a dangerous but life-affirming pastime
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From a wooden hut overlooking Windermere to a cabin with wings in Costa Rica - we've found 10 spectacular places to stay in the wildest corners of the world
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Costa Rica, long a magnet for backpackers and surfers, now offers eco-tourists a luxury option in the shape of a stylish new design hotel, writes Georgia Brown
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Georgia Brown visits Ditsowou Lodge, a project offering an insight into the lives of Talamanca's indigenous Bribri community
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Breathtaking scenery right on your doorstep, from Monument Valley to Cairo's Pyramids
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Flash wheels and support vehicles are for wimps, as 73-year-old Simon Gandolfi proves when he picks up a 'pizza delivery bike' in Mexico and heads down south
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An 'affordable' safari often means a gaggle of 4x4s circling a lone animal, but you're guaranteed to be outnumbered by wildlife in the Great Karoo
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Nature-loving kids will love tracking leopards in South Africa or brown bears in Romania's Carpathian mountains ...
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From working as a panda keeper in the foothills of China's Qingling mountains to guarding sea turtles in Costa Rica
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Still looking for an end-of-year break? From cosy country inns to tropical escapes to über-cool party houses, we've got every yuletide base covered
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These treehouses are secluded, environmentally-friendly and offer a bird's eye-view of some of the most stunning scenery in the world from Costa Rica to Washington State. And you can stay in them
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Christabelle Dilks is just back from scouring Costa Rica for the boutique hotel website i-escape.com. These are her favourite finds
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V hip; Labour of love; Costa collection
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A holiday to satisfy a culture vulture and a beach bum? Not easy. But then Jaime Gill discovered Croatia