Envision Festival

In February, thousands of costume-clad travelers will descend on the lush jungle of the Southern Pacific Coast to attend Envision, Costa Rica’s epic eco-conscious festival. Here's what you should know before you go.

The sun was rising over the jungles of Costa Rica's southern Pacific, bathing decorated bodies in sunlight, mine included.

Thousands of worldly travelers seeking transformation descended on the tiny Pacific coast town of Uvita, Costa Rica, last week to attend the fourth annual Envision Festival. They spent four days listening to live, pulsating music, dancing with abandon and making creative connections in a lush jungle setting on the shore. In keeping with tradition, we present you with some of the things we overheard at Envision:

Envision Festival 2014 has kicked off at Rancho La Merced, in Uvita, Costa Rica. The venue is new this year, with more shade as well as closer and easier access to the beach.

The transformation has begun.

Costa Rica's transformational festival will take place at a new location with shade, car camping and free access to the beach.

At the Envision Festival, a mini-Burning Man held for the third time last weekend in Uvita, on Costa Rica’s southern Pacific coast, the sky opened up and dumped water on thousands of hippies who had come from all over the world.

Festival will bring five full days of music, yoga, dance, performance art, healing and bodywork, art installations, and much more in Costa Rica's Southern Pacific.

The art, music and sacred music didn’t quite add up to utopia, but the Envision Festival in southwestern Costa Rica was a pretty good party.