Travel & Living

Katherine chats with Fabián Alvarado, Pablo Quesada and Fernanda Bustamante, journalists from Radio Aserrí "La Potente." At the beginning of February, their community sprang...

Is there good bird watching in urban San José? We’re here to tell you: there’s plenty to see. Bird lovers know that the first requirement...

A couple months after my dad’s death, I was wandering around New York City alone during a rare work trip when I found myself...

“Yum!” says my daughter, tasting the juicy fruit of a bright-red coffee cherry. My husband, his feet covered in loose dirt baked by the summer...

If you’re as new to this topic as I was before talking to Madelline Sánchez, let me first assure you: yes. It’s a thing....

Every community has distinctive features that set it apart from its neighbors and are a source of local pride. Sometimes these are natural features,...

It’s not every nature reserve whose story can be traced back to volcanic eruptions, a president’s granddaughter, cross-cultural relationships, a surprise donation, a beloved...

I’m not Costa Rican. I’m practically agnostic. I have serious problems with the policies and leadership of the Catholic Church—but I love walking in...

Today, in a cyber world based on analog codes where immediacy is the greatest truth, family culinary heritage—that intangible heritage collected in ancestors' notebooks—is...

María Luz Jiménez earned the title of “La Reina del Palmito,” or Queen of Heart of Palm, in Horquetas de Sarapiquí, because she prepares...