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Yoga: Tips to increase our Prana
In terms of Yoga, there’s a vital energy that’s inside all living creatures that keeps us healthy and content, that’s our Prana. Iyengar and Yogananda (two of the best known yoga teachers) said that low […]
Bird: It Looks Like a Stick and Sings Like a Sloth
Poo-oo-oo-oo-oo rings the sorrowful wail through the warm summer night. Everyone told me it was a sloth calling. In the late 1980s a visiting ornithologist enlightened me. “That sorrowful wail comes from the Common Potoo […]
Costa Rica: Richie the Sloth Follow Up
Richie, the one-armed, two-toed sloth, had his story shared in March about how he was brought into Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary with bite wounds sustained from a dog attack. As a result of these injuries, he […]
Surf Dominical – The Good Life – All in a Few Hundred Meters
Throughout my travels I’ve searched for locations capable of providing the best in day to day life-style. A good quality of living for me includes environmental cleanliness, social interaction, access to leisure activities and health […]
Another Great Life Party!
Beach Safety Tip: SWIM SOBER! Alcohol affects your ability to assess or react quickly to dangerous situations. The ocean can be dangerous even when you’re sober – please don’t put yourself and others at risk […]
Snakes: Rear fanged immobilizers
Colubrid snakes are mostly harmless snakes, having an aglyphous dentition, lacking fangs that deliver venom. Just like the boas and pythons, the boids, they kill their prey by suffocation, but some even seem to swallow […]
The New Trincheras in San Isidro
Trincheras (trenches) is an independent and self-managed cultural and artistic project, located in the heart of San Isidro de El General. It was born in 2012 with the idea of promoting art, culture and books, […]
Listing Agreements
Open Listing: Some sellers may think an open listing means that all of the listing brokerages are working to sell the property but the result can be that no one is really working for the […]
Drake Bay has an Airport
The Drake Bay community is premiering its airport, and it is not just any landing field! According to representatives of the air transport company SANSA, it is the third best airport in the country, preceded […]
Golfo Dulce and the Dolphins
The Golfo Dulce is a small gulf, enclosed by land ropes. It is a tropical fjord of Costa Rica located on the southern coast of the country, in the waters of the Pacific Ocean. On […]
Expat: Costa Rica is our Adventure
“You have to be into it or you won’t last.” This is certainly correct in the case of Overton Pratt and Michelle DiCogno, an expat couple living in Cinco Ventanas. After seeing the discovery show […]
Coral Gardening in Golfo Dulce
Golfo Dulce, in the southeastern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is home to coral reefs and communities that have been affected by different factors in the last three decades. In a recent attempt to conserve […]
DAWG saving dogs: Canela’s Tale
In 2016, a friend Mona Meier alerted DAWG that a homeless dog with a litter of pups was living on Bahia beach. With help we located the hiding pups. For over a week, two volunteers […]
Uvita: Excellent Service with Honor and Honesty
Our specialty is tire sales, but we also take care of mechanical services and maintenance of new Mazda, Kia, Toyota and Nissan vehicles among others. Some of our main services are oil changes, alignment with […]
Playa Cativo: First Five-Star Hotel in the South Pacific
Playa Cativo Lodge has just been awarded its five-star, thus becoming the first five-star hotel in the South Pacific of Costa Rica.
Join the Movement “Zero Plastic Bags”
The Tinamaste Farmer’s Market is joining the movement of zero single use plastic. To achieve this we must unite the efforts of sellers and customers who visit our Market every Tuesday. Little by little, seller […]
Pre-Columbian Rock Art at the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor
During the month of July, the division of Community Rural Tourism of the Association of Women of the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor, received the archeologist Iphigenia Quintanilla, recognized for her research on pre-Columbian stone spheres. […]
Hotel Cristal Ballena hosted Baroque Nomade Ensemble
The brilliant interpretation of the “Baroque Nomade Ensemble” resounded through the air of the Hotel Cristal Ballena and was rewarded with copious applause by the audience. Doña Herta and Don Waldemar, owners of the hotel, are art lovers, especially of music
A Mandala Experience
Michael is a professional photographer and creator of mandalas (mandala means “circle” or “wheel” in Sanskrit.) in Costa Rica
World Rafting Championship in Argentina: Adrenaline Guaranteed
From November 4-11 the “World Rafting Championship” will be held in the Aluminé River in the Patagonia of Argentina. The river is born in the lake of the same name and crosses the Neuquén province […]
CATUOSA – Free of plastic
While the media is warning that the country discards 564 tons of plastic a day, Osa sets an example by promising to become the first plastic-free canton in Costa Rica. Andrés Vargas, one of the […]
DAWG: Great Progress
In the days before DAWG, our beaches and streets were covered with homeless, neglected and abused dogs and cats. Before DAWG there were individuals that tried to help, primarily by spaying and neutering strays, but […]
Development Association of Uvita in Action
The Development Association of Uvita inaugurated a beautiful children’s playground next to the Bahía Community Center. It was built with the support of the Municipality of Osa and PANI (National Children’s Trust). Numerous parents with […]
The Silencio Archaeological Site: Curing of a Sphere
El Silencio Archaeological Site is the location of the largest sphere discovered to date.
