Costa Rica
This country ranks way up there on my top list of places to visit. It has many different areas to experience with the swamps and jungles on the northeast coast, the cloudy mountainous area in the central, and the beaches on the west coast. I loved it all. For this trip, I booked a company called CRS (Costa Rica Tours) which offered organized hotels and transfers between locations but we could still be on our own and not part of a group tour. I really liked this type of travel and this company was superb! The first thing that drew me in was their fantastic web site which is beautifully designed and so easy to find the right travel combination you are looking for. The second thing was their excellent communication and correspondence while planning and booking the trip. It was very well organized and the actual trip went so smooth.
Here is the video compilation I put together of our two week trip in April 2014.