Maracatu Dominical

Surfers walk straight off Playa Dominical with boards still dripping and order a round before the wax is dry, the horseshoe-shaped bar and the Basil Passion Fruit Margarita have quietly become local legend.

Part of Dominical’s original nightlife scene and still going strong, Roca Verde watches the town’s famous surf break light up at sunset from the beachfront resort bar that started it all.

Thatched roof, picnic tables in the sand, and bonfires overlooking one of the South Pacific’s best surf breaks, El Vaquero is the kind of sunset that makes canceling your flight home feel entirely reasonable.