A warm welcome to Helen, our new Media and Marketing Manager, and Sushi, our new Enrollment & Operations Intern. We are excited for them to join our family at Outward Bound Costa Rica!
What a treat it was to welcome 5 participants from Vanoutdoors Society here in Costa Rica for a recent custom-made adventure! With our two OBCR
Recently, we had the pleasure of welcoming eleven students and two chaperones from Colorado College here in Costa Rica to join two of our instructors
Homestays offer an experience that no hotel or hostel will match. They give you a chance to fully immerse yourself with the local people and
Solo travel was previously thought of as intimidating and risky. It was for the daring travellers who were looking to push the boundaries, break the
Raw adventure. A challenge. An escape from city life. These are the reasons I left my life in Madrid behind to move to Costa Rica.
The greatest cultural experience of my life I never imagined my first experience out of the U.S. being a one-way ticket to go live in a different country where I did not speak the language. But little did I know that accepting an internship with Outward Bound Costa Rica would provide the greatest cultural
Connecting with nature was when I felt true happiness. I grew up in a small town in Southern Oregon, surrounded by beautiful forests and rivers. I went to college a few hours away from home, staying close to friends and everything familiar. I studied Environmental Science at the University of Oregon, never
$250 Off 2019 Summer Courses for the First 25 People! 1. Mountainsmith Apex 60 Backpack Mountainsmith boast that this backpack will last you ‘from Springer to Katahdin’. According to google maps, this is 447 hours in total with over 1,300 miles of hiking. And if it doesn’t last you this long, they offer you a
#OptOutside was a campaign that was started by REI back in 2015. #OptOutside was a campaign that was started by REI back in 2015. They decided to shut all their doors on Black Friday; they didn’t process any online payments and also payed all of their 12,000 employees not to come to work and enjoy
One of our Girl Scouts and Alumni Ambassadors, Mary Frost, gives an insight into what it feels like to be Cacique on course. A Cacique is the leader of a community, and each participant on our courses experience what it’s like to lead a group for a day. This is Mary’s story… The
On July 22, 2018 Outward Bound Costa Rica (OBCR) welcomed five students from Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada for a 9-day hiking adventure through picturesque and remote rainforests of Costa Rica. The group traveled to Costa Rica, through the Northern Youth Abroad…
The final group of the summer wraps up their last week on course! Panama Service Expedition students started this week at sea as the students traversed the tides of Bocas del Toro in their kayaks. Whenever the group came ashore, a new community welcomed them! The group taught First Aid and CPR…