Tonight at 8:30 pm, more than one hundred countries on every continent will be taking part in Earth Hour, which was founded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in 2007 as a symbolic way of raising awareness about climate change and the world’s depleting resources. Big monuments around the world like Big Ben [...]

Retired  Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, who made his seventh flight into space in June 2002, was confirmed as one of the three 2012 honorees by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, which oversees the Hall of Fame’s annual selections. They will be added to the list of 79 astronauts enshrined in the Astronaut Hall of Fame since [...]

    Holiday shoppers looking for authentic Costa Rican gifts need not look through your typical souvenir store. There are a variety of unique Costa Rican gifts and products that make shopping for your loved ones an easy and fun experience. Casa 927 in San Jose’s Barrio Amon district has more than 30 local artesians [...]

Tommorrow, the city of San Jose will not only be the capital of Costa Rica, but also of the cinema from Central America. From Friday the 28th of October to Monday the 7th of November, about 8 different countries will be competing in 17 different categories, showing their audiovisuals works. The event will take place [...]

Two days ago, the most famous crocodile of Costa Rica gave his last show to the world. Pocho was a 5 meter (16½ feet) and 450 kilo (992 pounds) crocodile, domesticated by Gilberto “Chito” Sheedan. In 1989, Chito found the crocodile on the shore of a river in Limon, with a shot in his left [...]

On October the 6th, Costa rica Tourism Board started his new campaign called “Costa Rica’s Million Dollar Gift of Happiness”, giving away $1 million worth of week-long Costa Rican vacations , that in order to lure more tourists from Canada and United States to the country. It will be the largest advertising campaign aimed specifically at North [...]