by Sarah Duff | Jun 11, 2015 | Around the world, Belize, Central America, Costa Rica, Mexico, North America
Starting out a trip through Central America with six weeks of learning to surf on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica was a good beginning. From there on it just got better: road tripping around the bumpy roads of Costa Rica in a Suzuki Jimny, exploring Monteverde Cloud...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 16, 2015 | Around the world, Central America, Costa Rica
My big pledge this year is to be braver and make myself do the things that scare me most. My first challenge was set to be surfing. I was in Nosara for almost two months, a great surf spot in Costa Rica with a beach break and warm water (read more about how much I...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 12, 2015 | Around the world, Central America, Costa Rica
On my second visit to Costa Rica, I grew to love this tiny country even more than I did before. I experienced what it’s like to live in a beach community, learned to surf, practised yoga surrounded by jungle, drove around winding roads in a 4×4, hiked...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 4, 2015 | Around the world, Central America, Costa Rica
Nosara is one of those places that you arrive in and on your first day you think “I could live here”. It’s the kind of place that makes people change their flights, cancel other travel plans, or, in many cases – decide to relocate. On the...
by Sarah Duff | Apr 25, 2014 | Central America, Conservation
It was midnight on a hot, sticky Costa Rican beach and I was so exhausted from jet lag that I had started hallucinating dark shapes in the ocean. We’d been walking on the starlit beach for a few hours following our enthusiastic guide, Kloyd Taylor, whose...
by Sarah Duff | Apr 22, 2014 | Central America
It was like being inside a “Sounds of the Rainforest” CD. Standing on a suspension bridge high above a Costa Rican cloud forest, with the sound of a thousand tweeting birds, gentle humming of insects and a breeze rustling couch-sized tree leaves, I was transfixed....
