The Quiksilver Cup will travel next weekend to the South Pacific beaches of Playa Dominical in Costa Rica. Next Sunday they will bring together the best surfers in the country in the fight for 1500 points towards a National title. Noe Mar McGonagle who was the recent leader at the World Junior Surf Competition [...]
Festival of the Stone Spheres
This past weekend, April 13-15, the Osa, Palmar, and Bahia Uvita regions celebrated the 8th annual Festival of the Stone Spheres. The free, three day festival aimed to promote cultural literacy about our mysterious stone spheres. At the highest point on Isla del Caño, there is a pre-Columbian cemetery of the Boruca people. Two [...]
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Earth Hour
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 [...]
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Costa Rica’s Coveted Ecological “Blue Flag” Awarded to Tulemar Beach
For the fifth consecutive year, Tulemar Beach has received the prestigious Blue Flag award for water quality and other ecological criteria from the National Blue Flag Commission. Located in Costa Rica’s central pacific coastal town of Manuel Antonio, the beach provides a unique experience for residents and visitors of the residential resort community of Tulemar. [...]
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Día del Boyero
The second Sunday in March marks the annual celebration of Día del Boyero (Oxcart Driver’s Day). The festival takes place in San Antonio de Escazú; a suburb of San Jose. There is a colorful parade of oxcarts, and blessings of animals and crops by local priests. A Boyero is a person who guides a [...]
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Hatched to Fly Free: Bringing back the Great Green Macaw to the Costa Rica Rainforest

With so much abundant and diverse wildlife in Costa Rica, one of the world’s most popular ecotourism destinations, it’s hard to imagine that there could be something missing. Until recently, however, there was: The Great Green Macaw. This spectacular Central American Parrot, identified as a species “most in need of protection,” is internationally endangered primarily [...]
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Guide to Fishing on the Central Pacific Coast
Costa Rica is a fisherman’s dream, and Manuel Antonio and Quepos have some of the best fishing in the country! The Pacific provides Costa Rica’s most consistently exciting fishing, with sailfish, marlin, tuna, wahoo, roosterfish, mackerel, mahi mahi and snapper being caught regularly. Billfish are the target of most visiting anglers, and they are seldom [...]
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New Decor in Villa Vigia
Check out the new decor and new furnishings in beautiful Villa Vigia! http://www.4tulemar.com/villavigia.html
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Manuel Antonio National Park has big plans for extension
Manuel Antonio National Park is one of the most visited national parks in Costa Rica with over 150,000 visitors every year. Over the next two years the Área de Conservación del Pacífico Central (Acopac) plans to construct 5 kilometers of additional paths inside the National Park for tourists to see and enjoy more of the [...]
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A Tico in the Nasa Hall of Fame
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 [...]
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