Seed saving is the ultimate challenge for the home gardener. Once you collect and plant your own seeds, you have gone a complete cycle with Nature. It's…
Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week, in Nicaragua is a week of colorful religious tradition, tourism and partying. Most people get vacation days making for a long…
Simona lives in a basket. Her platter of food is always full. She gets lots of loving attention. In fact, she gets the best care a sloth…
By Erin Van Rheenen | Special to The Tico Times In the spring of 1978, New York-born Michael Kaye and his Salvadoran wife Yolanda were riding the…
Agents with the Drug Control Police (PCD) arrested an Israeli citizen found with more than eight kilograms of cocaine, $5,600 in cash and a 9mm pistol in…
Nestled in the Central Valley’s volcanic mountains are approximately 5,900 coffee parcels and plantations and nearly 100,000 hectares dedicated to coffee in the country, according to the…
If you have any questions about buying, renting or building property in Costa Rica, Christopher Howard’s “Guide to Real Estate in Costa Rica” may help. The exhaustive,…
Matagalpa, an indigenous name meaning “let’s go where the rocks are,” was one of the indigenous settlements discovered by the Spanish in 1542, while they were trying…
Countrified, chaotic and often crawling with traffic, downtown Cartago for many visitors is the penance you have to pay to reach the Basílica de la Virgen de…
Early one morning last September, a Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) vehicle crawled up the long, steep drive to zoologist Gloria Dempsey’s mountainside home near Lake…
