AfroLatinx Travel: AfroCosta Rica - August 27-September 3, 2026

AfroCosta Rica: Celebrating the Black Caribbean Coast

Join us on an immersive journey to Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast as we celebrate AfroCosta Rican Month, honoring the legacy, resistance, and brilliance of Afrodescendant communities.

Our experience coincides with the AfroCosta Rican Grand Gala Parade, a vibrant celebration of culture, music, and identity in Limón.

Throughout the trip, we’ll connect with organizers, activists, and cultural workers who are shaping the country’s present and future, including a special conversation with Epsy Campbell Barr, Costa Rica’s former Vice President and a trailblazing advocate for racial and gender equity. We’ll trace the history of Afrodescendant life along the Caribbean coast as well as the Pacific coast, from those free and enslaved in Costa Rica, the arrival of Jamaican migrants who built the railroads and banana industry to the contemporary movements reclaiming space, identity, and belonging.

This is more than travel, it’s an invitation to learn, celebrate, and stand in solidarity with Costa Rica’s Afrodescendant communities as they continue to write their own living history.

AfroCosta Rica is not a vacation. It is a meditation through living history. This experience is educational in nature, rooted in listening and reflection, and centers the past and present realities of Afrodescendants in Costa Rica. We move with grace and gratitude, recognizing that this journey is a privilege, an opportunity to bear witness to both struggle and triumph, to the beauty and resilience of AfroCosta Ricans.

There are direct and one-stop flights from major cities in the U.S. to San Jose (SJO). We recommend flying in a full day before or taking a flight in the evening the day prior to the start of the tour. Our first activity to kick-off our time together is our welcome dinner on August 27th. Independent days are for the participant to spend however they wish.

Participants are required to attend monthly meetings, we will have at least three, to become familiar with cultural norms, etiquette, and expectations while on the ground, ensuring respectful, informed, and considerate engagement throughout the experience. Engagement with educational courses and readings are also part of the trip experience. Mutual aid is required where we will respond to the local needs of a community grassroots organization.

We want serious participants only who will make the commitment to attend the trip, participate in prep and experience the trip in all its fullness. We want participants who are mindful of the space they take up, considerate of others and themselves and want to be in equitable community with others.

Our trips are intentionally designed as immersive educational experiences for thoughtful travelers who are genuinely interested in engaging with local Black communities in a spirit of respect, openness, and grace. We travel to regions where conditions reflect historiographies of inequity, displacement, state brutality and abandonment and ongoing manufactured economic scarcity, and we ask that participants approach these realities with sensitivity and awareness.

AfroLatinx Travel curates groups that value curiosity, flexibility, and collective synergy. For this reason, we seek participants who contribute to a positive and cooperative group dynamic—those willing to adapt, listen, and share in an experience that is as much about learning as it is about connection.

Our itineraries are dynamic and responsive to local rhythms, opportunities, and community needs. While a general outline is provided, more detailed information is shared as the trip date approaches. If this level of fluidity makes you uneasy, this experience may not be the right fit—and that’s completely okay. We prioritize travelers who are comfortable embracing the unknown, trusting the process, and engaging with intention.

All participants are required to sign a liability waiver upon sign-up. Trip insurance is recommended on your own and up to your own discretion.

Check back for updates as more details become available as we get closer to our tour. As with all of our trips, we curate the most comprehensive, dynamic and up-to-date events and content as possible. Let the trip be as it is moved to be.

Please note:

This trip is on a first come, first served basis. Your spot is reserved with your deposit which is immediately non-refundable. Initial deposit is followed by installment payments or you have the option to pay in full. Your installment payments become non-refundable five days after payment. Any and all trip drop-outs will not be reimbursed nor re-scheduled. Any trip missed because of missed flights, expired passports or other error on the participants' part will not be refunded nor re-scheduled. Participant assumes this agreement when deposit is submitted.

We understand things come up and we also would like participants to understand that we also have a commitment to also fulfill and trip drop-outs make this harder.

*Itinerary may be subject to change before or during the trip to best accommodate the needs of the group. A deposit of $450 is due upon sign-up, the balance is to be paid in monthly installments, with final payment a month before the trip. Credit card payments incur a 3% fee. All guests must provide proof of travel insurance before the trip, or upon arrival to participate in group activities. Guest passports must not expire before December 9, 2026. All guests must complete and submit a liability agreement before embarking on the trip.