Costa Rica Picture of the Day  - Each day the Costa Rican Times will be including a picture from around Costa Rica to see the natural beauty and amazing things that we get to see each day in the land of the Pura Vida. “After almost 10 hrs of exhaustive driving that started in the…
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Costa Rica News – A local resident of Jaco is hoping that a rock & roll musical that he penned will one day soon be on the stage in Costa Rica or Los Angeles bring James (Jim) Douglas Morrison to life.  Britt Nelson is a retired journalist/photographer who worked 18 years with The New York Times Company. Several months…
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Costa Rica Travel News – When many guys come to Costa Rica on a bachelor party in Costa Rica they want to go to the places where they can find some nighttime company.  With prostitution being legal in Costa Rica, several hotels serve as a place for these women to congregate and meet clients.  There are…
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Costa Rica Travel News – More and more guys are no longer choosing Las Vegas as the destination for a last hurrah before marriage.  Costa Rica has everything that Las Vegas has to offer and so much more. Located just a short flight from the USA, Costa Rica is a perfect option for a bachelor…
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Costa Rica News – The folks at Adventure Tours Costa Rica (based in Jacó), have once again proven that they are willing to go above and beyond what is expected of them. I’m not talking about special offers they can give to tourists; I’m referring to an amazingly rewarding program they’ve set up with local…
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Costa Rica News – This is one of the first times I have seen a Costa Rican government entity do something proactively before a problem actually existed in the country.  Maybe someone in the Caja happened across the movie “Outbreak” over the past few weeks. But in all seriousness this outbreak could become a pandemic….
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World News – After sequencing 101 butterfly genomes, researchers found that just one gene appears to makes a huge difference in the ability of butterflies to migrate long distances — and that finding suggests monarch butterflies came to fly so far because they evolved more efficient muscles. The genetic analysis, published in this week’s issue…
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Costa Rica Travel News – Developers of Golfito Marina Village & Resort, Costa Rica’s newest world-class yachting, sport fishing, eco-tourism destination and luxury resort property have announced construction is officially underway. The long-awaited project offers a unique location previously inaccessible to travellers seeking luxury accommodations in a truly untapped travel destination. Called “the most biologically…
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