World Champion Team year after year! 10 – 11 Hrs, includes lunch, drinks, tackle, & bait Winner of several offshore tournaments and owners of Casa Luz & Tipoha, this 1st class team is for the serious fisherman. Their vessel is a 31′ Bertram and is in excellent condition with top of the line rods, reels, […]

Variety to Fit Everyone’s Needs Offshore includes beverages & sandwich. Inshore includes snacks Quepos is one of the world’s finest sport fishing locations. Marlin Magazine recently named it as one of the best locations in the world for “all around action”. Inshore angling requires only a short run to the fishing grounds, is relatively inexpensive […]

  Hike through Primary Rain Forests 3 – 4 hrs, includes certified bilingual guide, park entrance, headlamps (night tour) & transportation. Rainmaker Mountain is one of the last remnants of primary rain forest on the Central Pacific. It is home to 60{c9355c63429b0b68b054b0898681605a3b8757d8457a1c4c3ed1ee7dcd3be931} of all of the flora and fauna species found in Costa Rica! On […]

Kids Saving the Rainforest 2 Hours, includes guide, refreshments, & snacks Kids Saving the Rainforest (KSTR) is a non-profit organization founded in Manuel Antonio by two 9 year old girls: Janine & Aislin. In 1998, they sold painted rocks at a roadside table with the hope of raising enough money to save the endangered red-backed squirrel monkey (mono […]

Depending on the swell type, Playa Guiones has many moods, and suits a wide variety of surfing ability. Consequently, it’s popular with both longboarders and shortboarders. Short boarding is a fast paced, more energetic style of surfing which allows for far greater speed and manoeuvrability. For beginners, the lack of volume makes a shortboard more […]

It’s now been a few years since a group of local artisans, food producers and farmers decided on a time and location from which to trade their wares. Since then, the Tuesday morning Playa Guiones farmers market has become synonymous with fresh, superior quality, organic food products. These include vegetables, fruit, honey, smoothies, herbal tonics, […]

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Staff Writer There’s a marked tendency in our country to confuse “Residency” and “Citizenship” terms with each other, mostly due to ignorance on the subject, misleading information that we see in the media or simply what we hear from people around us. If you are a foreigner and wish to reside temporarily or permanently in Costa Rica, you should be well […]

Staff Writer Costa Rica’s landmass comprises only 0.03{c9355c63429b0b68b054b0898681605a3b8757d8457a1c4c3ed1ee7dcd3be931} of the earth’s size and yet we are home to 5{c9355c63429b0b68b054b0898681605a3b8757d8457a1c4c3ed1ee7dcd3be931} of the world’s biodiversity. This makes our country recognized world-wide for its conservation of nature and particularly for its amazing system of protected areas all around the country. Back in 1969, Costa Rica first National Park system was created. This was a […]

Contributed With the very ambitious goal of becoming 100{c9355c63429b0b68b054b0898681605a3b8757d8457a1c4c3ed1ee7dcd3be931} carbon neutral by 2021, Costa Rica’s government has enforced the actions required to get closer to making this goal a reality. In the private sector, countless companies have applied their own measures for separating trash, reducing the usage and amounts of chemical products and spreading the awareness on social media and with their […]