Join the Desert Museum and its Costa Rican partner, the Monteverde Institute, for an unforgettable exploration of extraordinary landscapes, biodiversity, and conservation.
Tiny Costa Rica holds an astonishing 5% of the world’s species and protects a quarter of its land area in parks and preserves.
Throughout the trip, we will use nature journaling as an interactive lens to sharpen our observation and deepen our connection to the environment.
Along the way, Desert Museum naturalists reveal surprising connections between Costa Rica's tropical environments and the Sonoran Desert, offering a perspective few travelers experience.
We visit key birthplaces of the country’s conservation ethos and explore their legacies of habitat protection and restoration.
Through guided field excursions, we encounter remarkable plants and animals such as liverworts, sloths, and white-faced monkeys
Most importantly, we meet local biologists, farmers, and community members dedicated to celebrating and safeguarding biodiversity to create sustainable livelihoods for people and the natural world upon which we all depend.
