Costa Rica guidebooks

Guidebooks about Costa Rica and Central America

Prepare your travel to Costa Rica with a first-rate guidebook. Plan your itineraries before you leave home. That way you will find all the best spots and bargains.

Lonely Planet Costa Rica

This guide offers travelers the full range of options available for travelers to Costa Rica, from details on outdoor activities from kayaking to scuba diving, and bird watching to surfing. There are maps of cities and regions. Includes eating and accommodations options, from budget to upscale.

Moon Handbooks Costa Rica

The handbook guides travelers through this peaceful country where travelers can surf the Caribbean or hike the Monteverde Cloud Forest. It's packed with cultural, historical, and political insight, activities; from mountain biking to volcano trekking. Details on restaurants, car rentals, boat charters, rain forest cabins, and beach resorts.

Lonely Planet Central America On a Shoestring

Probably the best known and used of all the guidebooks. Includes budget hotel accommodation, the best spots for scuba diving, wildlife watching, jungle trekking and language study. Air, bus and ferry routs and schedules, including border information. Detailed maps. Covers: Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Let’s Go Central America

A comprehensive guide to Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. This edition boasts expanded coverage of local and indigenous culture, beaches, and the outdoors. More listings of Spanish schools and volunteer opportunities help travelers extend their stays, get involved, and make a difference.

Footprint Central America and Mexico Handbook

Whether you're looking for the ancient Maya pyramids, Spanish colonial splendours, majestic volcanoes, adventure sports or just the best beaches, this guide offers practical travel advice along with background information on ancient civilizations, archaeological sites and revolutionary history.

Lonely Planet Watching Wildlife Central America

From toucans to tapirs and jaguars to jacamars, this guide will help you to find and identify Central America's amazing wildlife. Covers the wildlife of Belize, Costa Rica and Panama. Hundreds of color photos highlight the rich variety of mammals, birds and reptiles. The region's world-class bird watching is covered for experts and beginners.

Costa Rica Map, by Ray Krueger-Koplin

Waterproof, rugged, current roadmap of Costa Rica, San Jose, and the Central Valley are complimented by innovative features not available on any other map. Symbols for distinctively Costa Rican attractions like zip-line and hanging bridge canopy exploration, butterfly gardens, rappelling down canyons, and surf camps, as well as the more typical activities like horseback riding, scuba, deep sea fishing, golf, rafting and many more.

Costa Rica Map, by ITMB

Folded travel map in color with highways, roads and traveler's information. Distinguishes 4 levels of highways and roads, including seasonal roads and tracks. Color changes show elevation levels. Icons locate archeological sites, hotels, museums, beaches, active volcanoes, surfing sites, filling stations, bird sanctuaries, border crossings, palm groves, lighthouses, reefs, swamps, airports and landing strips. Inset maps include downtown San Jose.

Central America Map

Travel map of Central America in color. Shows roads from paved Inter-American Highways to secondary and seasonal tracks, with distances in kilometers; railways; airports and landing grounds; ferry routes; active volcanoes; mountains with altitude in meters; protected areas; points of interest; beaches; gas stations; more.