We spent over a month exploring the lodging options in this area and growing fat on all the good food. Here are The Tico Times’ top picks for five good hotels and five good restaurants in a range of prices in the Santa Ana area.
At the Refugio Herpetológico animal sanctuary in Santa Ana, the wards often have heart-breaking histories, but occasionally they are successfully released.
Feet get dirty and hands get wet on a tour of a Costa Rican pottery factory in Salitral, where some of the country's most beautiful handicrafts are made.
Construction is continuing on a 308-meter (1,010-foot) bridge that Costa Rican officials say will become one of the longest four-lane bridges in Central America....
Starbucks has opened its 33rd store in Costa Rica while Dunkin' adds locations in Zapote and Sabana Este, intensifying competition in the country's coffee and doughnut market.
Costa Rica has detained 56 Peruvian nationals today after finding them working without authorization at a gold mine in Miramar, Puntarenas. The workers had...
