Costa Rica is known around the world for its picturesque beaches, but there are no laws that require lifeguards on its sandy shores, forcing local communities to scrape together the funds to train and employ their own. Without more resources for beach safety, experts say that preventable drowning deaths will continue.
Oliver posted a handful of pictures to his Facebook page Monday showing the healthy-eating enthusiast sweating over a fire in a rural kitchen with a local cook enjoying an “honest simple delicious” meal.
Costa Rica's public health care agency hopes to recover some of that debt by signing an agreement with the National Tourism Chamber (CANATUR) to promote payment plans among its associates.
Three years after Raúl Castro cast aside decades of communist housing dogma and allowed homeowners to buy and sell their properties for the first time since the 1960s, the island's real estate market is proving to be a powerful engine of economic and social change.
Toucan Rescue Ranch is a magnet for cuddly critters, and if you only came for the furry and feathery toddlers, you will leave well satisfied. But the place is more than a mere menagerie: True to its name, the ranch inherits scores of animals, nurses them back to health, and then releases fully recovered specimens back into the wild.
The report released in May showed that Costa Rica is the most expensive destination on the isthmus but also one of its best values. Costa Rica ranked 42nd in the world on the global ranking, behind Mexico (30) and Panama (34) in the region.
Spirit Airlines will fly four times a week between Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) starting May 28.
