Some years ago, I went to Guanacaste for the International Blues Festival. Several blues artists from Costa Rica, the United States, and Europe came to Tamarindo and Playa Potrero for a weekend of good music, sea, beach, and beautiful sunsets.

I suppose this is partly due to the fact that there are fewer and fewer regular customers, since the city of San José—especially the area where the market is located—virtually lacks residential housing and has become more of a transit zone and workplace than a place to live

We met years ago while I was developing my first reservation system for Paradise Products Costa Rica. I had the honor of representing their project, called Granja Agroecológica Siwakabata, in an international trade mission organized by the ICT (Costa Rican Tourism Institute) about six years ago.

Metropolitan Park La Sabana is one of the main green lungs of the capital city. Seventy-two hectares of trees, sports areas, a lake, and the National Stadium

As a child, the Central Market of Costa Rica seemed complicated and bustling to me; it wasn’t my favorite spot in San José.

The change of attire for the Virgen de los Ángeles stands as one of the most emblematic rituals within Costa Rican celebratory culture.