If you want to add years to your life, try moving to the Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Researchers have found that people in this region are commonly living to the age of 100 or more without suffering so much as a headache. There are four other regions like this in…

Native to Southeast Asia and India, the mangifera indica Linnaeus first came to the Americas with the Portuguese from West Africa to Brazil in 1796.  Several varieties of the fruit made it to Costa Rica by the mid 18th century, along with the ever-profitable coffee trade. Its extended existence makes the fruit intricately connected to…

Costa Rica’s Saxophone Festival is an event that jazz and saxophone fans will not want to miss. From Monday, March 11, to Saturday, March 16, the San Jose area of Costa Rica will be engulfed in jazz concerts and classical music, with noted masters of the saxophone melodically seducing the masses. Costa Rica’s Sax Fest…

Travelers head to Costa Rica for many reasons: to lounge on the pristine beaches, to experience the exotic and unique culture, to retreat to vacation homes and luxury resort, to be pampered in the rainforest, or to surf the infamous waves. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that Costa Rica boasts a…