Be Aware, Not Afraid

~ by Benjamin Rutherford Paradise, “Pura Vida”, and “tuanis” are just a few of the ways people describe living in Costa Rica. We are all drawn to life in the Costa Ballena region for different […]

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Pura Vida Through Clean Water

~ by Liz Bohne, E.I.T. Global Water Stewardship is a non-profit organization that, by educating people and engineering sustainable centralized solutions that keep waterways clean and communities healthy, resolves sanitation issues in the developing world. […]

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Geckos

~ by Cesar Barrio Amorós On this amazing coast in which we have decided to live, where nature is exuberant and there is beauty everywhere, we share our daily life with animals. Among them, geckos […]

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Life in 14th Century Paradise

This is a paradise”—so the boruca Indigenous thought—until the Spanish conquest in 1492-1520 AD.This is a paradise”—the Boruca Indigenous thought—until the Spanish conquest in 1492-1520 AD.

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