We dare you to watch this video… and not immediately plan a trip to Costa Rica! Costa Rica is Pura Vida, literally translated it means pure life, but it is so much more to us Ticos, it’s a way of life.  It means excellent, life is wonderful, this is life and so much more.  It’s used as a greeting and an invitation to enjoy the beauty that is Costa Rica. …Read More »

Costa Rica’s has a high quality of life, it’s one of the top 20 richest countries in the world for biodiversity for # of specials, and according to National Geographic is the happiest place on earth.  You can find more than 1000 species in tiny Costa Rica which means that it is possible to find more species in Costa Rica than in much larger countries like Brazil! Top 10 animals …Read More »

About halfway between Alajuela and Puntarenas is a quaint little town named Sarchí. Sarchí is known for arts and crafts and souvenirs as well as oxcarts and the traditional designs carved on furniture and on anything that you can paint. Sarchí is coffee country and in order to transport coffee, oxcarts were used, which are decorated vividly with paint. So it’s only fitting that they went for the record. In …Read More »