Travel & Living

In the early 1900s, Costa Ricans sweetened their meals with tapa de dulce. There was no interest in granulated white sugar; instead, people would...

Whether you’re here on a short business trip or a long backpacking adventure, or you live here... you may want to bring home something...

San Gerardo de Dota, a beautiful basin of oak forest and Quetzal birds, was baptized by Caridad Zúñiga after Saint Gerard, the patron saint...

“This machine that our hands are, is the only one that can do the job well,” said Reynaldo Villalobos, referring to the production of...

I still remember, very clearly, the first time I got to Ostional, one of four places in the world that hosts the amazing, massive...

Butterflies, dragonflies and beetles of many colors and sizes flutter around the trails of the Barra Honda National Park. Their eye-catching colors make us...

There is something about Tortuguero National Park... I love traveling and I try to avoid going twice to the same spot: too much to...

On the other side of the Rio Grande de Térraba, where there is no inter-American street or electricity, lives Celedina Maroto Leiva, a 66-year-old...

When you are in Guanacaste and you hear someone screem "¡Bomba!", it's not a call to fear, but to laughter and joy. Imagine music...

Besides some childhood memories of a fruit loop eating toucan named Sam, what do we really know about the toucan? Lately, Costa Rican toucans have...