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Ballena Tales is a Magazine and Travel Guide for the South Pacific region of Costa Rica, based in Uvita on the Costa Ballena since 2008. It connects companies of Costa Ballena and Osa - South Pacific with the rest of Costa Rica and the world. We are a multilingual, multidisciplinary team and are proud of our open, long-standing cooperation with national and international partners.
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Latin Dance Night
Restaurant, Bar & Cabinas Atypical French Cuisine Open from Friday to Tuesday 11 am to 9:30 pm Calle Soluna Ojochal, Costa Rica (506) 2786 5052 / 8719 5130 cocolindo@ymail.com Tuesdays at 8 pm we […]
Coco Lindo
Restaurant, Bar & Cabinas Atypical French Cuisine Open from Friday to Tuesday 11 am to 9:30 pm Calle Soluna Ojochal, Costa Rica (506) 2786 5052 / 8719 5130 cocolindo@ymail.com Aurelie & Alexandre invite you […]
An Eight Colones Pair of Pants
Don Regulo Gonzales is a 70-year-old-man; at the age of 14, he came from Esparza to Platanillo. While going to school, he met his future wife Judith Solis C. Years later they got married, and […]
Guillermo Ástua Zúñiga, known as Memo Madriz
In 1956, Memo and his parents left Turrialba to move to his godparents’ farm called La Concepción. For Memo, only 10 years old, school and games had finished. He had to work in the fields […]
Iguana Verde Ferreteria
Hardware store (506) 2743 8929 1 km East Banco CR Uvita, Costa Rica Opening Hours Monday to Friday – 6 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturdays – 6 a.m. until 4 p.m. Sundays […]
Whales & Dolphins Hotel
The Hotel in Uvita offers two private and quiet units with a total of 20 rooms, each with a private and stunning ocean view and balcony.
Piccola Italia Presents Full Moon Party!
Friday, November 30th, 2012 Pizzeria Piccola Italia Restaurant, Deli and Bar Mediterranean Fusion Cuisine Pizza, homemade pasta, Italian Deli Tuesday to Sunday 12 a.m. – 12 p.m. 300 m Norte Servicentro Bahia (km 161) Uvita, […]
Marino Ballena National Park
Offshore there is a row of small islands and submerged rocks, starting with Roca de la Viuda and followed by the famous Whale Tail at Punta Uvita.
Huen Tebec – New field station of the Institute of Tropical Biodiversity (IBT)
Huen Tebec is the new field station of the Institute of Tropical Biodiversity (IBT) in Uvita Bahia, next to the Marine Ballena National Park. Its name, taken from the Boruca dictionary means frog (Huen) and […]
Sloth a beautiful mammal, who lives in the forest of Costa Rica
The Sloth is a beautiful mammal who lives in the forest of Costa Rica only eats leaves. Their stomachs are big and slow. They have a special kind of bacteria in their intestines to help the digestion of food.
El Sabor De Ojochal
El Sabor de Ojochal was formed in August of 2012 to highlight Ojochal’s cornucopia of delicious and diverse culinary offerings.
Gourmet 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. […]
Ballena Tales is an essential free digital magazine in Costa Rica, valid for travelers, residents, and investors covering Costa Ballena in the Canton of Osa in the South Pacific of Costa Rica. It is a fully bilingual, bi-monthly, and full-color digital magazine.
The magazine introduces the reader to the life of the local community, with interviews of pioneers, writers, and artists, as well as extensive information on restaurants, hotels, experiences, natural attractions, and wildlife of the South Pacific of Costa Rica.
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