PLAYA OSTIONAL, Guanacaste – Gallo pinto, casados, and corn tamales are some of the most common dishes served in Costa Rica. But there’s another food in which many Ticos also indulge: sea turtle eggs.
Business leaders celebrated a court decision Friday that they say guarantees Costa Rica's public hospitals, ports and electricity grid will continue to function even if public sector workers are involved in a labor dispute.
Traffic jams and blockades likely will return to Costa Rica's roads as private chauffeurs, or porteadores, announced they will resume protests next week. Unlicensed taxi drivers, or piratas, may join the demonstrations.
A Facebook page set up by the family of missing 20-year-old Alysson Mercier from Gatineau, Quebec, includes a post from a user named Edgar Mata who claimed to have seen Mercier in La Fortuna, San Carlos, near Arenal Volcano, on Monday, July 20, a day after Mercier's family last heard from her.
Counting down the top 10 goals in Costa Rica football history. Included on the list are Tico legends, like Rolando Fonseca and Paulo Wanchope, as well as some modern mainstays like Bryan Ruíz and Joel Campbell.
A U.S. plane first spotted the smuggling vessel 200 miles south of Mexico off the coast of Central America. It was carrying a total of 16,000 pounds of narcotics.
Congratulations to Karin Cook Hass for winning our July photo contest. On behalf of Karin and her travel partners, we’ll donate $100 to Hogar Sol for needy children in Costa Rica.
"If you are thinking about visiting Costa Rica with the purpose of paying for sex with underage people you could stay in this place for years or forever since this is a felony under Costa Rica’s law,” warns a fake listing on Airbnb, posted by an anti-trafficking group.
We spoke with trumpet player and composer Etienne Charles outside the upper Manhattan club Smoke a few weeks ago, where he told us about his latest project, an unusual suite involving San José, Costa Rica; San Jose, California; and St. Joseph in Trinidad.
