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.
From rescuing animals in need to providing affordable spay/neuter surgeries and supporting community members’ loving pets, one local nonprofit is changing the lives of...
A rare wildlife encounter in northern Costa Rica has captured the attention of conservationists after a family of three endangered tapirs was filmed walking...
Costa Rica's new maximum-security prison held more than 600 inmates by Tuesday, eight days after the first transfers. Guards there have already found weapons...
