Professional Home Decor & Landscaping
Home furnishings made of petrified wood, about 25 million years old. A blend of organic, rustic, and modern luxury – incredibly rare, unique touches. Finest quality products at competitive prices. Raw materials from privately-owned lands – sustainability and ethics code.
Shop Address: 13-14 Plaza Ventanas, Ojochal, Costa Rica
Shop Hours: 9-5 Monday through Friday, 9-3 Saturdays, Sunday by appointment
Contact: +506.8659.1284, inquiries@fossiel.com
Pelicans
What other animals walk, swim, and fly? Pelicans are famous for their enormous beak; it has a throat poach they use to scoop up the fish. The pelicans feed on that fish by immediately tipping […]
President of ADI Ojochal
Last September, Ana Herrera was re-elected as president of the Association for the Development of Ojochal. She kept positioned thanks to her dedicated work for the AMO group, the Association of Women of Ojochal. Her […]
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 […]
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