In the second installment of a series on “Costa Rica’s Greatest Places,” today The Tico Times Travel kicks off a multi-story package on the attractions, the adventures and the backstory that have made Manuel Antonio and Quepos the top destination in Costa Rica.
Federico Peixoto describes the vision behind his artistic work – from individual self-expression, to a quest to change the world's perception of Central America.
The Costa Rican government angered conservationists Friday when it declined to vote on whether to list two shark species as needing protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Twenty meters deep while scuba diving in Belize, we were swarmed by dozens of nurse sharks of all sizes — some as long as me — that seemed as curious about us as we were about them.
Costa Rica’s best-kept secret isn’t the treasure of Cocos Island, nor is it our suspiciously Anglophonic pronunciation of the letter “r.” Not even close....
A 38-year-old U.S. man was killed in the Pacific beach town of Jacó outside of a club early Wednesday morning, according to the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ).
Agüizotes are the folk beliefs, small superstitions or minor brujería (witchcraft) of Costa Rica. Dionisio Cabal Antillón, the noted cultural journalist, calls them the...
