We hope everyone had a great New Years! We have been very busy in Tulemar; lots of people and we opened our new office! On December 19th we opened the doors to our new rental sales and real estate office, located under one of our favorite restaurants – Agua Azul. We offer information on our [...]

    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 [...]

September 15th is Independence Day in Costa Rica, and the whole country celebrates this important event with parades of bands, lanterns (faroles), the song, “Diana” (Independece Hymn), a torch relay race and other activities. Costa Rica gained its independence from Spain on September 15th, 1821. Before it became independent, Costa Rica was Spanish territory, and [...]

Today is “Día del Niño” in Costa Rica. On November the 20th of 1954, the General Assembly of the United Nations agreed that all countries in the world should hold a day to reaffirm the universal rights of minors. They concluded that every country should specify a date that each one believed most convenient. For [...]

Mother’s Day is a national holiday in Costa Rica. Banks, schools, government offices, and many private business are closed and everyone honors their mother (or her memory) in the style that most befits their budget. Some families give Mom the day off from her normal love-fueled family management tasks and prepare a special meal for [...]

Leisure time is precious to us all. There’s so much we’d like to do and seemingly very little time to do it all. Every gadget and new digital “assistant” has to serve multiple functions to allow us to be the multi-tasking machines we need to be these days. Even our leisure time itself has to [...]