I need to report that I recently found a slice of paradise. Seriously. So much so that it has brought me to the area twice in a two-year span. And while Jamaica is obviously the icon of Caribbean ...

Some vacation destinations attract tourists. Others attract disciples. The surfer town of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca and the tiny beach communities southeast of it, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica ...

SOME vacation destinations attract tourists. Others attract disciples. The surfer town of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca and the tiny beach communities southeast of it, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica ...

Playa Manzanillo, Limón. Photo by Andrés Madrigal. They say Puerto Viejo is a party town. Surfers lazily flip flop around the old port toward the infamous waves of Salsa Brava, take a siesta, and come ...

PUERTO VIEJO, Limón — I was starting to think people at the Chocolate Festival this weekend were almost worshipful of chocolate — and that was before I joined the sacred circle for the Cacao Ceremony ...