Costa Rica officially recognizes eight Indigenous ethnic groups, making up about 2% of the population. Many of these communities struggle with high poverty rates, limited infrastructure, and ongoing struggles over land rights.

Visit Alto Laguna, an Indigenous territory bordering Corcovado National Park, where local residents have come together to use tourism as a tool for community development.

With road access only recently opened and transportation still limited, the community is rarely visited. Yet it offers an extraordinary window into the living traditions of the Ngöbe people, far from the commercialized portrayals common in mainstream tourism.