Welcome to Costa Rica

Costa Rica offers some of the best wind surfing in the world in the Tilarán area. Other activities in Costa Rica are rafting, fishing, scuba diving, kayaking, mountain biking and boating. As well as extreme sports and custom tours to the active Arenal Volcano and Monteverde Cloud Forest amongst others.




Latest news in Costa Rica


Candidates graded on environment plans Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
Study Weighs Environment Plans Prohibition Repealed! Profiles of the Presidential Candidates: Personalities and Issues How Elections Work NASA Launches Mission to Study Lands in Central Americ...
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Costa Rica huevos [Flickr] Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
Yep, we still get home egg delivery here in Costa Rica ... the car-roof mounted bullhorn breaks the silence of early morning urban calm like no rooster could ever effect the countryside! original p...
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Heredia Hospital, Costa Rica’s Newest Modern Public Medical Facility Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
A new landmark for residents and visitors to Heredia sits in the sun on 11 hectares (27 acres) only 400 meters south of the 117-year-old obsolete Hospital San Vicente de Paúl that has long outlived i...
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Paralysis Leads Arizona Boy to Costa Rica for Stem-Cell Treatment Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
Shaun’s father, Robert, and mother, Michelle, believe there is a controversial, $50,000 stem-cell procedure that can restore some feeling to his legs, perhaps even allow him to walk again. And t...
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Costa Rica Remains an Environmental Index Leader as U.S. Falls Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
A new ranking of the world’s nations by environmental performance puts some of the globe’s largest economies far down the list, with the United States sinking to 61st and China to 121st.
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A Night at the Del Rey – Costa Rica’s Most inFamous Hotel Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
It’s not nearly as famous as Amsterdam in this regard, but prostitution is legal in Costa Rica and the country has become quite a big destination for sex tourism – despite the Costa Rica g...
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Starbucks Buying Less Costa Rica Coffee Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
U.S. coffee giant Starbucks Corp. has reduced its purchases of Costa Rican coffee this year, the head of the Central American nation’s coffee association said on January 25, 2010.
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Costa Rica National Stadium construction [Flickr] Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. But! If you want to share photos marked as friends, family...
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Why the left is lagging Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
By Chrissie Long Correspondent, Sara Miller Llana Staff writer / February 7, 2010 The left has always been less powerful in Costa Rica than in other Latin American countries, but it's never been as ab...
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Woman elected Costa Rican president Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
Costa Rica's governing party candidate has swept to an election victory that made her the first woman president in the Central American nation. Laura Chinchilla had 47% of the vote with nearly all the...
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Woman elected Costa Rican president Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
Costa Rica's governing party candidate has swept to an election victory that made her the first woman president in the Central American nation. Laura Chinchilla had 47% of the vote with nearly all th...
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Laura Chinchilla declares victory in Costa Rican presidential election Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
File photo shows Laura Chinchilla, presidential candidate for the National Liberation Party, talks to bus drivers during a campaign meeting in San Jose November 20, 2009. The front-runner in Costa Ric...
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Chinchilla leads in Costa Rican presidential election Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
Ruling party candidate Laura Chinchilla has taken the lead in Sunday's Costa Rican presidential election grabbing 48.66 percent of the vote with 11.35 percent of the votes counted, the electoral commi...
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Chinchilla on her way to be first Costa Rican woman president Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
Laura Chinchilla Miranda, a female candidate from the leftist ruling National Liberation Party, is winning Costa Rican presidential election on her way to become the first woman president of the count...
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Woman leads Costa Rican presidential vote Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
(CNN) -- Costa Rica's first female candidate held a two-to-one lead in the country's presidential election, as the second-place candidate, Otton Solis of the Citizen's Action Party, conceded defeat.
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Voting ends in Costa Rican general elections Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
The general elections in Costa Rica to choose the country's next president concluded as 6,617 voting centers closed gates at 6:00 p.m. local time (2400 GMT) Sunday.A total of 2,822,492 people were reg...
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Long Lines at Costa Rica Voting Stations but No Surprises Print E-mail
Monday, 08 February 2010
At the Laura Chinchilla visitor center for voters in Heredia Costa Rica supporters line the streets while Laura Chinchilla parades by shaking hands and kissing babies. The PLN is expected to win with ...
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Costa Rican electoral campaigns turn white hot as election day nears Print E-mail
Sunday, 07 February 2010
The electoral campaigns in Costa Rica have turned white hot as Sunday's election approaches.The months of traversing the country, plastering slogan-laden billboards along every major roadway and expla...
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Costa Rican presidential, parliamentary elections underway Print E-mail
Sunday, 07 February 2010
San Jose - Voters began going to the polls Sunday in presidential and parliamentary elections in Costa Rica, with latest polls indicating the country's next president could be a woman. Altogether, nin...
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Chinchilla favourite to win Costa Rican presidency Print E-mail
Sunday, 07 February 2010
The people of Costa Rica are going to the polls today to elect a new president. Laura Chinchilla is favourite to win the contest and become the Central American country’s first female leader. Sh...
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