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World set to ring in another pandemic Christmas

Omicron's rise has heralded another pandemic-tinged Christmas for billions, with Santa's arrival and longed-for family reunions overshadowed by the prospect of yet more Covid...

A Costa Rica Christmas: Nativity Scenes, Fireworks, Tamales and Shouting

What is it that makes us follow old customs year after year, even with so many new appealing ideas in the market? Why do...

An Age Old Christmas Tradition: Making tamales in Costa Rica

Doña Flor Arguedas, 71, has been making tamales since she was 22. That was the year she got married. Her new mother-in-law told her,...

Finding a green Costa Rican Christmas tree

In Costa Rica, the Christmas season always brings tamales, egg nog, presents and lights. It also means enormous amounts of waste.

Throwback: The Festival de la Luz in San José

There is no Festival of Lights in 2020, so we hold onto memories of years past with the hope that we may celebrate again in 2021. 

PHOTOS: The 2019 Festival de la Luz in San José

Thousands of Ticos gathered to watch lively performers, synchronized marching bands and decorative floats parade down the city's main avenue.

Pic of the Day: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Costa Rica

The country’s biggest holiday celebration, the Festival de la Luz, or Festival of Lights, started in 1996.

Christmas Throwback: What if Jesus had been born in Costa Rica?

A Costa Rican Nativity scene: one Wise Man falls through La Platina, another into a pothole. The last one calls Joseph. Mae, I’ll be there later, ya casi llego. Traffic, mae. Es que vieras que en La Uruca hay UUUUna presa…

The Tico Times Weekly Digest: Dec. 24, 2018

In this special edition of The Tico Times Weekly Digest we

Around the world in a Costa Rica Nativity scene

Adelia Oreamuno's Nativity scene takes the viewer on a world tour.

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