Gateway to the Americas: Why Global Companies Choose Costa Rica

Gateway to the Americas: Why Global Companies Choose Costa Rica

Costa Rica: Where Business Meets the Good Life Costa Rica is where serious business meets the good life. You can surf Witch's Rock at sunrise, tour marimba workshops and galleries by afternoon, watch scarlet macaws flash over rainforest at dusk, then close a deal from...

Costa Rica’s Bush Medicine: Backyard Cures You’ve Never Heard Of

Costa Rica’s Bush Medicine: Backyard Cures You’ve Never Heard Of

Most travellers come for surf breaks, hanging bridges and rumbling volcanoes, then stay for gallery nights, marimba in the plaza and ceviche still singing with lime. Step behind a tin-roofed home, though, and you’ll find another strand of Costa Rican life: a backyard...

Paragliding Costa Rica: lift-off over jungles, reefs and volcano rims

Paragliding Costa Rica: lift-off over jungles, reefs and volcano rims

Costa Rica is built for adventure. One hour you’re sipping a café chorreado after a dawn surf; the next you’re drifting above jungle canopies, tracing the curve of a Pacific bay while scarlet macaws flash like confetti below. Culture hums on the ground—marimbas in the...

Whistling Conversations: Costa Rica’s Forgotten Birdsong Language

Whistling Conversations: Costa Rica’s Forgotten Birdsong Language

Costa Rica is famous for surf breaks and cloud forests, but it’s the small, odd, human things that give the country its heartbeat: adventures told over gallo pinto, culture shared on a breezy veranda, entertainment that might be a neighbour’s marimba or a story...

Fashion Flash – To Be or Not to Be-Kini

Fashion Flash – To Be or Not to Be-Kini

      [vc_row full_width="full_width"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The original two-piece bathing suit invented in 1946 by Louis Reard, was named “bikini,” after Bikini Atoll, where nuclear bomb testing was taking place. So, is the bikini the nuclear bomb of the last...

Coffee Flowers at Midnight

Coffee Flowers at Midnight

Costa Rica is packed with adventures — volcano hikes, scarlet macaws overhead, ceviche by the beach, and a business scene buzzing with both tech start-ups and real estate ventures. But tucked away in the hills is a secret most travellers never hear about: the midnight...

Surfing Ollie’s Point after the Storm

Surfing Ollie’s Point after the Storm

In October 2017, a huge storm devastated most of the beaches in Costa Rica. Playas del Coco was totally flooded. Significant beachfront destruction was widespread, and the ocean was very brown. This occurred on a Friday, and just two days later, we were among the...

The Great Rust Truce: Beachside Anti-Corrosion Habits

The Great Rust Truce: Beachside Anti-Corrosion Habits

Living by the sea in Costa Rica is pure magic—adventures before breakfast, culture in every plaza, entertainment from sunset drum circles to beach bars, wildlife gliding past your balcony, and food so fresh your fridge feels redundant. It’s also a splendid place to...