If you are in Vancouver and want to travel to Costa Rica, take advantage of this cheap flights. This Delta flight deal is available during several dates in November and December 2016 and January -February 2017, enjoy your summer in Costa Rica! Vancouver to San Jose, Costa Rica – $354 CAD roundtrip including taxes via Delta Airlines Cheap flights from Vancouver to San Jose, Costa Rica from on...

Paralympic swimmer Camila Haase participated in her first competition this morning at 6:37 A.M. in Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics Women’s 100m Breaststroke ; she improved her mark from 01:43:31 to 01:39:99 and classified to the final in 100 m breaststroke that will take place today at 3 P.M. Camila is 16 years old and is the first women to represent Costa Rica in the Paralympic Games. Update Camil...

Costa Rica doesn´t escape the phenomenon of the Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy, the book was originally published on May of 2011, and 5 years later it´s still a topic of conversation among women (and some men). The book is certainly not a literary masterpiece, but the global success of the book by E.L. James has nothing to do with this and everything to do with the fantasy behind its main charact...

Costa Rica’s male FutSal National Team defeated Salomon Islands 4-2 in their first game of the FIFA FutSal World Championship Colombia 2016.  The first goal came at minute 18 of the first half by La Sele’s captain Alejandro Paniagua.  The second half included goals by Carlos Chavez and a penalty in favor of Costa Rica was executed by Paniagua; with the score 3-0, a penalty came in favor of Salomon...

Next time you travel to Panama, you might want to stop any make a visit to the Baha'i temple. EFE-Amid smoky and beat-up buses, street vendors and hillsides crammed with rickety shacks, the only temple of the Baha'i faith in Latin America rises like a stalagmite on the summit of a leafy green hill. "People who come to visit us can't believe that this place exists in such a difficult and chao...

Stan Wawrinka overcame No. 1 ranked Novak Djokovic at Flushing Meadows on Sunday night to win his first U.S. Open title 6-7(1), 6-4, 7-5 and 6-3. In a match chock full of great rallies and excellent shot placement at Arthur Ashe Stadium, top-seeded defending champion Djokovic took the first set in a tiebreaker 6-7(1). Djokovic had gone out to a 2-0 lead, breaking the Swiss player's serve, bu...

If you love spending time in Guanacaste but would like to see other beaches aside from Tamarindo and Flamingo, perhaps somewhere that’s a little more secluded, how about the area of Nosara? Nosara is a district of the county of Nicoya in Guanacaste, it’s actually home to a big community of American expats that established in the area many years back. The town of Nosara is 6 kilometers from the ...

In the UFC 203, Stipe Miocic retained his heavyweight title with a first round KO victory over Alistair Overeem in the main event  of UFC 203 that took place at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH, Miocic’s hometown. Miocic survived a knockdown, escaped a guillotine choke and eventually managed to take the fight to the ground and continued to land shots until the referee stopped the fight at 4:27 o...

Gennady Golovkin successfully defended his WBC/IBF/IBO world middleweight titles, he defeated Kell Brook in a 5th round stoppage. Triple G had dominated the majority of the rounds; Brook had a good performance in round 2, and continued to pull through, but GGG was the better man; Brook was not happy that his corner threw in the towel; many fans and some journalists in the twitter community conside...

In far southeastern Nicaragua, on the banks of the San Juan River, which forms the boundary with Costa Rica, is the Indio Maiz biological preserve, one of Central America's most important tropical rainforest areas where in recent years colonists have been moving in. Inhabited on 70 percent of its territory by the Rama and Kriol indigenous communities, the ancestral owners of the virgin jungle, ...

We know soccer is Costa Rica’s main sporting event, but there are many other disciplines in which Costa Rica has international participation. Here are a few important events coming up: The Costa Rican FutSal National Team will take part of the FIFA FutSal World Championship Colombia 2016. Costa Rica is part of Group E along with Salomon Islands, Kazakhstan and Argentina; the Ticos will have the...

A film with seven fathers and seven sons, almost an hour in length, a budget of $30,000, set in Oregon, Kansas City and California, but with one objective: to overturn the arguments of those who accuse Latin American immigrants to the United States of being homophobes. "El Canto del Colibri" (The song of the hummingbird), by Mexican educator and attorney Marco Castro-Bojorquez, provides a voice...

Costa Rica has a great number of beautiful places to visit, and perhaps you have already been to the beaches of Guanacaste,  Manuel Antonio  and even Limon, you’ve been to the volcanos and you want a new experience; well, if you are into adventure tourism,  here we give you three suggestions of places that you may have not visited yet:   Chirripó National Park: Here you’ll find Costa ...

UFC 203 takes place today at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio  and features in the main card a five round heavyweight match between USA’s Stipe Miocic (15-2-0)(W-L-D) and English veteran  Alistair Overeem (41-14-0, 1NC). Miocic, an Ohio native, is making the first defense of his UFC heavyweight title which he earned in a first round KO of Fabricio Werdum back in May of this year, Mioc...

There are certainly a lot of tennis fans in Costa Rica and this Sunday they will be treated to a great final game of the US Open 2016 when Novak Djokovic faces Stan Wawrinka who reaches his first US Open final after defeating Japanese No. 6 seed Kei Nishikori in four sets. Serbian world No. 1 Novak Djokovic advanced to the U.S. Open final with a 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 victory Friday over Frenchman ...

According to Stratistics MRC, the Global Medical Tourism Market is accounted for $17.1 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach $57.2 billion by 2022. Patients Beyond Borders estimates 11 million people travel abroad to seek medical care. Costa Rica is a very popular destination for Medical Tourism, and although most people think of esthetic procedures when the term Medical Tourism is used in r...

In Costa Rica according to studies by the Costa Rican Institute of Drugs (ICD in Spanish) and the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Institute (IAFA in Spanish), kids start using marijuana on average at the age of 11. The amount of male users remains steady if you compare 2014 to 2016 while the use by women has increased. According to this study part of the problem obeys to the misinformation of the po...

Costa Rican surfer Leilani McGonagle earned her pass to round 4 of 6 (quarterfinals) at the Azores Airlines Pro Women’s Qualifying Series #26 1,500 in Azores, Portugal, she will be competing again tomorrow and her heat will be in the “Man to Man” format facing tough competitor Justine Dupont from France. Other Costa Rican Competitors Carlos “Cali” Muñoz, Emily Gussoni and Leilani's brother N...

September 15th is coming, Costa Rica celebrates its independence and therefore it’s a national holiday; the 15th this year falls on a Thursday so there’s a lot of people taking a day off work on Friday the 16th to enjoy a well-deserved long weekend. If you are part of those lucky people, and you are trying to figure out where to go spend a fun few days we have a couple of suggestions for getaways ...

There is no denying that technology has taken over our lives in more than one aspect, to a point it is even hard to remember what it used to be like before computers and smart phones (for those of us that grew up with limited technology), kids today will never know what that was like, and it is not going to stop, just the opposite, new advances and better technology continue to invade our lives as...

ATLANTA, Sept. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax Inc., a global information solutions company, today announced the opening of its second shared services center in Costa Rica. With this new site, the company expects to grow to 1,000 total employees by the end of 2017. The company, which has been operating in Costa Rica since 1995, is continuing to deliver on its operations expansion plan, which wa...

NFL regular season gets underway tonight.  Defending champions Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers will kick off the 2016 season at the Mile High Stadium in Denver starting at 8:30PM E.T.  These two teams as you probably recall, met in February for the Super Bowl 50, and the Broncos took the win with a score of 24-10 over the Panthers, this is the first time that a Super Bowl rematch opens the re...

Do you know where the Qualla Boundary is? Qualla Boundary is an Indian Reservation of more than 56,000 acres held in trust by the federal government specifically for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who reside in western North Carolina. What does this have to do with Costa Rica? Turns out there’s been a strong link between students of this region and Costa Rican students for quite some t...

Sydney, Sep 8 (EFE).- Ten percent of the planet's untouched natural areas, around 3.3 million square km (1.27 million square miles), has disappeared in the last two decades, especially in the Amazon and central Africa, according to a study published in Australia Thursday. The study, led by James Watson of the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS), and the University of Queensland, says since...

Washington, Sep 7 (EFE).- Apple Inc. on Wednesday rolled out the latest version of its iPhone, which dispenses with the headphone jack while adding much-requested features such as better photographic capabilities, longer battery life and water resistance. Consumers can place orders for the iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus starting Friday and the devices will go on sale Sept. 16 for $649 and $769, respec...

The province of Limon is considered by many the “ugly duckling”  or the “Cinderella” of Costa Rica, neglected by many government administrations, the inhabitants of this province complain of the abandonment they’ve lived in.  The reasons for this are really not clear at all, as it is the country’s main port, 80% of the exports and imports go/come through Limon. Aside from this, the Caribbean coast...

For the first time in history,  six Costa Ricans will represent the country at the e-Sports World Championship 2016 organized by the International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) to be held in Ancol Beach City Auditorium, Jakarta, in Indonesia  from October 6th – 9th. A national competition was held to determine the winners that would travel to Jakarta to represent the country; in total 40 LOL teams...

New York, Sep 7 (EFE).- Serbian world No. 1 and top seed Novak Djokovic has advanced once again at this year's U.S. Open without playing a complete match, reaching the tournament's final four when Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired after losing the first two sets of their quarterfinal contest. Djokovic was leading 6-3, 6-2 Tuesday night when the ninth-seeded Tsonga grabbed his left knee once ...

A crowded National Stadium celebrated the solid win of Costa Rica’s male national soccer team over its Panamanian counterpart.  Costa Rica imposed over Panama with a score of 3-1 and classified undefeated in the first position of Group B with 16 points while Panama kept its second place with a total of 10 points. The lineup for Costa Rica didn’t include some of its main figures such as Bryan Ru...

According to an article published in the Huffington Post, Costa Rica is among the British preferred travel destinations. This has a lot to do with the fact that UK residents no longer need to fly via Miami or Madrid, British Airways now offers a direct flight from London to Costa Rica. Costa Rica received a total 2.665.000 tourists in 2015 according to the Costa Rican tourism board and the Unit...

Costa Rican actor Daniel Zovatto is “Money” in the Suspense/Horror Film “Don’t Breathe”; Money is a young delinquent who breaks into a house with two other friends and find themselves trapped. “Don’t Breathe” premiered in the U.S.A August 26 and has brought in roughly about $54 million so far; not bad for a movie that had an estimated budget of under $10 million; the movie is directed by Uruguayan...

The national soccer teams of both Costa Rica and Panama classified to the CONCACAF hexagonal last Friday with victories over Haiti and Jamaica respectively; these games are all part of Russia 2018 World Cup Qualification Matches. Costa Rica beat Haiti with a score of 1-0 while Panama defeated Jamaica 2-0.  Costa Rica vs. Panama will take place in the Costa Rica National Stadium, Tuesday September ...

San Jose, Sep 4 (EFE).- Colombian writer Alberto Salcedo, who loves telling stories, said in an interview with EFE that books have a tremendous value because they are "the best thing that can happen to a society," providing "quality time" for people. "Books help us to have a good time, to spend some quality time. A book is the best thing that can happen to a society, helping it understand its t...

Costa Rica has referred to its concerns about Nicaragua's recent purchase of military weapons. Managua, Sep 4 (EFE).- Nicaragua's army celebrated its 37th anniversary with the traditional military parade. President Daniel Ortega praised the Central American country's armed forces during the celebration on Saturday, touting the military's work in security, crime fighting and humanitarian missio...

The Men’s and Women’s Qualifying Series Essential Costa Rica Pro Open 3000 will take place October 5-9 in Esterillos Este beach, Parrita, Puntarenas.  This WSL (World Surfing League) event is being promoted in Costa Rica by former surf champion Diego Naranjo co-founder of the company Orange Wave. The date falls right before the start of the QS Brazilian end-of-the-year leg (October 18-25) and t...

Costa Rica is known for being a country that promotes peace, one that decided 68 years ago on the abolition of the military and that has managed to do rather well without an army and that has instead focused those funds towards public education and social security; Costa Rica’s former president Oscar Arias also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his involvement in ending the Central Americ...

Saturday, September 10 will be a big weekend for boxing, as two of today’s best pound for pound fighters in the world step into the ring in different fights; Gennady “GGG” Golovkin the current WBC/WBA/IBF/IBO world middleweight champion will be putting three of his titles on the line WBC/IBF/IBO, (WBA is not sanctioning the fight as his opponent has never fought as a middleweight before), when ...

Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Sep 3 (EFE).- Costa Rica now seeks to preserve the beauty and improve the conservation of its wetlands, an ecosystem forever undervalued by the local population that considers them no more than breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Though wetlands are the most efficient areas for absorbing carbon emissions, their ecological and economic usefulness have been disregarded over t...

New York, United States, Sep 3 (EFE).- Rafael Nadal, who has already moved to the fourth round of the U.S. Open, said Saturday he feels less pain in his wrist, due to which he was forced to pull out of the Roland Garros this year. Nadal, addressing the press after his straight sets victory (6-1, 6-4 and 6-2) over the Russian Andrey Kuznetsov, said he still feels a bit of pain but it does not li...

Costa Rica’s men’s National Soccer Team earned its place in the CONCACAF Hexagonal. La Sele defeated Haiti with one goal scored by midfielder Randall Azofeifa in the 72nd minute of the second half of their elimination game in round to the World Cup Russia 2018. Costa Rica only needed a tie to advance to the final round. They are now the undisputed winners of this phase with 13 total points. Th...