One of the most family-friendly and fun-filled festivals in Costa Rica is happening again in just a few days. The 6th Whales and Dolphins Festival in Ballena Bay will star this Friday, September 5th. Although whale watching season in Costa Rica runs from July until October, the peak month for migration is September. Some of the activities that visitors to the Osa Peninsula will enjoy include: concerts, sand sculpture exhibitions, environmental workshops, delicious food and, of course, whale watching tours. The festival is organized by the Association of Tour Operators (Spanish acronym: ASOTU). The festival has been organized as… Continue reading →
Costa Rica Travel News – In three years, the number of foreign tourists coming to Costa Rica to see humpback whales has tripled. In 2010, visitors totaled 43,302; in 2013, however, a huge total of 131,373 visitors were recorded. These figures were validated by the Costa Rican Institute for Tourism (ICT) after analyzing the results…
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Costa Rica News - (September 1st Radio Show) – Overseas Radio Has Teamed up With The Costa Rican Times to provide multiple modes of information sharing for local and foreign expats in order to get Costa Rica news and knowledge to listeners. This week Corey and Dan talk about the following: This past weekend’s Festival de Gaspar (Tropical Gar Festival)…
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Houses that used to be airplanes and tree dwellings that seem to have come straight from an Ewok village of the Star Wars universe are among the top offbeat Costa Rica rentals featured by HomeAway.com andVRBO.com (Vacation Rentals by Owner). Both HomeAway and VRBO are website marketplaces similar to Airbnb, whereby travelers can evaluate and review potential residences for short-time rentals in lieu of traditional lodging accommodation. Enchanted Tree House in Cahuita Homes perched on trees and nestled within the jungle forest canopy are not so unusual in Costa Rica. In 2012, The Costa Rica Star featured the Finca… Continue reading →
Mobile customers of ICE, Costa Rica’s largest wireless carrier and former telecommunications monopoly, will experience extended periods of service outages during the week starting September 1st, 2014. The affected services include Kolbi wireless voice and data plans as well as the ability to add funds to prepaid accounts. In some cases, subscribers of landline telephone service will also experience outages. According to a report by Rebeca Madrigal of online news daily Costa Rica Hoy, ICE made the announcement by means of paid radio and television spots as well as print newspaper ads. The service interruptions will take place due to… Continue reading →
On the final day of August, just hours before people in Costa Rica began preparing for Sunday Mass, brunch, football games, community activities, and family outings, a 5.1 moment magnitude (Mw) earthquake jolted communities from the southern Pacific region down to the border with Panama and up to the Central Valley. The seismic event was detected by the National Seismology Network (Spanish initials: RSN) at exactly 4:01 am. The epicenter was located 45 kilometers south of the pristine Playa Dominical in the Osa canton. Geologists from the RSN and the University of Costa Rica reported that more than a dozen… Continue reading →
Costa Rica News – Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. – Humphry Davy Each day as we get older it seems like we focus more and more on daily…
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The most dangerous organism in Costa Rica is probably not the one you are thinking of. Although in the past few years there have been regional warnings issued to eco-tourists about potential dangers related to sharks, caimans and jaguars, attacks by these species are infrequent, and they are not even close to being the most lethal. The most dangerous organism in Costa Rica is not even a vertebrate, but it kills approximately three quarters of a million humans each year. Mosquitoes are not only insidious pests; they are extremely harmful vectors of disease. From yellow fever to malaria and… Continue reading →
Costa Rica News – Park rangers will be reinforcing their sea patrols in the Marino Ballena National Park and in the Isla del Coco, with a view to regulating the amount of tourist activity during the whales’ high migration season, which is going on until October. “The members of the Association of Tourism Operators (Asotu)…
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Costa Rica News – Ice and Recope are truly showing why Costa Rica needs to eliminates it’s monopolies and open the market to competition. How many more screw ups need to be passed into the public before we see change?ICE and Recope are at a shared 10 billion colones loss (about $18.5 million)which was created…
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