Spa and Personal Wellness - Yoga - Hairdressing - Hair Removal - Tattoos - Personal well-being
Bahia Ballena Doctors
IBARRA Pharmacy
Free Health Services
Natural Products, Cosmetics, Sunscreens
Orthopedic Products
Uvita – The Dome- Plaza Alfaro
Vargas Medical Center
Vargas Centro Medico
Tropical Biodiversity Institute
César Barrio Amorós was born in Barcelona, Spain. He studied anthropology and music; however, his true passions are herpetology, the tropics, and the discovery of new species. In 1995, he traveled with his backpack to […]
How to get in shape for surfing
Surfing is a sport for the whole body, using different parts in combination and in sequence. You should train for it in the same way, creating a circuit. Flexibility is achieved through stretching exercises. Paddling […]
The Spheres (2011)
The spheres are perfectly round, mysterious and have their abode in the South Pacific of Costa Rica. The spheres are a pre-Columbian Indian heritage that arouses passions, tall tales and even monumental astronomical conjectures
Borucan women in Guatemala
Susan Atkinson, from the Pacific Edge Eco Lodge, took three Boruca ladies to Guatemala to meet their homologues. From Guatemala City, they traveled to Chichicastenango, where every Thursday morning the largest native market in Central […]
The Color Purple
The murex snail provides a milky fluid that all Indian women, from the Boruca community in the Brunca Region in the South Pacific of Costa Rica use in the dyeing of their cotton yarn in […]
Curré – an indigenous village on the banks of the Terraba River
Cuasran (the legendary chieftain) watches over the blood that runs through the woods and feels the breath that passes through the trees. Cuasran protects his children from evil and from the arrogance of those who […]
Our unknown neighbors – or the indigenous community in the southern zone
It is noteworthy that both ticos and the foreign community know very little about the indigenous population of our country. Did you know that the first settlers arrived here between 10,000 and 7,000 years before […]
Boruca – Old times – New times in Boruca
Susan, owner of the Pacific Edge Ecolodge in Dominicalito, has been working with the Boruca community for nearly 17 years, mainly with Marina Lazaro, selling her masks and all the beautifully hand-woven goods, they make. […]
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