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THE MAGAZINEGourmet Festival
On January, 26th, 2013 fourteen restaurants of Ojochal, Osa, Costa Rica came together for an unforgettable festival in one location, the Boca Coronado Restaurant, each one featuring their best dishes. The mission was to put […]
Costa Ballena – two hotels have earned the top prize of Sustainability
The Sustainable Tourism Certification (CST) is a program that recognizes the hospitality companies’ commitment to the environment. It involves the evaluation of sustainable levels based on the degree of compliance to each one of the […]
“Make an enjoyable experience of each situation” – A very useful Mantra
Recently, a very powerful thought came into my mind, and it has become my most essential mantra. It all began one incredibly hot day; it was one of those days when from the very beginning […]
Don Fernando, Bahia’s last fisherman
In the village, they call him Casco; he came 30 years ago from Quepos to Bahia – Uvita, Costa Ballena. Back then, he worked as captain of a 39-feet boat, with a crew of six […]
Stone Spheres – sculptured by an advanced, observant, and very knowledgeable culture
We met the Costa Rican artist Hannya Buentemeyer at the Farmers Market in Uvita. She traveled from San Jose to attend the talks within the framework of the Festival of the Spheres, which took place at […]
Passion Fruit or Maracuyá is a delicious tropical fruit
Plentiful in Costa Rica it is also a great aid for anxiety and Insomnia. Passion fruit it is also called Maracuyá. It is the fruit of a tropical plant, well known for its vines, and […]
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 […]
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. […]
Sansa Regional
With over thirty years of experience, Sansa Regional is the nation’s most traveled commercial carrier, with five high-season flights daily to Puerto Jiménez, alone. Serving ten destinations all around the country, Sansa makes Costa Rica […]
Rivers with no Bridges and Horses that got stuck in the Mud…
Eida Esperanza Fonseca Cruz, was born 80 years ago at Legua de Aserrí near the capital. Still very young, she came with her family to La Esperanza where years later she met her future husband, […]
Ballena Tales Magazine Welcomes You!
Ballena Tales Magazine is now online! Everything you need to know about Costa Ballena and Osa in the South Pacific of Costa Rica can be found here. From discovering Local artists under Art & Culture […]
Ballena Tales' Third Anniversary
In three years our Ballena Tales magazine has positioned itself on the market. We celebrated this event with a Fiesta. Georg Kiechl of Papa Kilo – Ultralight Uvita – very generously lent us his facilities. […]
Palmex
Eco-friendly palm roofs, made from by-products. (506) 2786 5126 http://www.palmex-costarica.com/ Showroom located 25 meters North of the Entrance of Ojochal
Christophe Gstalder: Boruca – A Vanishing Race and Culture
“The most beautiful landscape of the Boruca community is the humbleness of its people”I have never worked in my life! (Christophe´s passion for photography, does not allow him to call it work). He is originally […]
Painter and Art’s Designer Brian Sylvester – San Martín
Before moving to Costa Ballena permanently, Brian Sylvester from Florida and his wife had traveled regularly to their dreamland. They used to go to Nosara and Tamarindo, but on a surfing trip to Pavones in […]
Procession in Honor of our Lady of the Sea
Juan Carlos Fonseca, Secretary of the Pastoral Council, remembers: After eight days of rain, Sunday, July 16th, at daybreak it was sunny with blue skies. For the first time in Bahía a procession in honor […]
Ballena Tales' Third Anniversary 2011
In three years our Ballena Tales magazine has positioned itself on the market. We celebrated this event with a Fiesta. Georg Kiechl of Papa Kilo – Ultralight Uvita – very generously leant us his facilities. […]
Learn to fly or love your Frustrations!
This article is only for people who feel frustrated now and then. If you are one of them, read on. If the world is always a happy place for you, stop reading! Ok, you are […]
Conscious Creating
According to the laws of attraction, our every emotion creates the experiences of our life. While it is our thoughts, which seed the creation of our results, our emotions magnetize them. When we feel an […]
Identifying the Velvet Snake or Fer-De-Lance
Most people panic and kill anything that wriggles on the floor without knowing what specie they are eliminating. In Costa Rica, there are about 120 species of harmless snakes, among them the blind snakes, waterfowl, […]
Turtle Season is at its Best!
“We were walking along the beach at night, the moon passed dim light through the clouds, little by little our eyes became accustomed to the darkness, we could see our feet and a little further. […]
Orchids for Every Environment
Jan Erick Lackstetter, (his nickname is Lacki), is German and lives with his little family surrounded by a large garden of exotic orchids in Platanillo. In Germany, he received a very complete training as a […]
"The Ojoche Tree" Ancient Cornucopia of Wealth
Ojochal is a name given to a large area of land populated with ojoche trees. The beautiful town by the name of Ojochal was an area covered with these trees during the mid 1930s. The […]
The Shark Quest
In 2008, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) the hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) was declared an endangered species. Being protected around Coco Island, there are no conservation measures along Costa Rica’s […]
Scarlet Macaws
Scarlet Macaws [singlepic id=1257 w=320 h=240 float=left] The return of Scarlet Macaws or “lapas” as they are known in Costa Rica to Costa Ballena after many years of absence, is a source of happiness and […]
Vulnerable Giants (Humpback Whales)
Each year they swim over 7,000 miles, coasting along the cold waters of Patagonia and here they are, ready to delight us with their acrobatics and singing. For them, the warm waters of Costa Ballena […]
Rescuing Lives in the Water
During the last 12 years since the Foundation of the National Association of Lifeguards of Costa Rica, which is based in Grecia, Captain Luís Hidalgo has trained about 700 lifeguards. Invited by Uvita Surf School […]
