nicoya peninsula

To celebrate this year's 190th anniversary of the annexation of the Partido de Nicoya, bilingual community newspaper La Voz de Guanacaste (The Voice of Guanacaste) has put together a musical video tribute based on Guadalupe Urbina's song, "Vengo de una Tierra" ("I Come from a Land").

We were concluding a tour of Guanacaste with Canadian guests and arrived the long way, through Santa Cruz and then a gravel road from Playa Naranjo to Paquera. We were hot, tired, and covered in dust.

After a month of preventative maintenance, the Tambor II ferry is back to its normal number of trips across Costa Rica's Nicoya Gulf.

Workers will dredge near ferry docks, affecting an estimated 10,000 would-be passengers during the week.

The fee hike comes only one month after the Paquera Ferry raised its prices.

The price for passengers taking the Paquera ferry will remain the same; ¢810 for adults and ¢485 for children under the age of 12.

  The ferry shuttling passengers between the Pacific port of Puntarenas and Paquera, on the Nicoya Peninsula, will have a new schedule next month to...

The ferry that runs between Puntarenas, on Costa Rica´s central Pacific, and Paquera, on the Nicoya Peninsula, will be out of service for at...