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Top 9 Activities for an Awesome Vacation in Manuel Antonio

April 9, 2023
Manuel Antonio, located on the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is a beautiful and popular tourist destination. With its stunning beaches, lush rainforest, and abundant wildlife, there are endless opportunities for adventure and relaxation in this area. Here are the top 9 things to do on a v…

Top 10 Activities in Uvita Costa Rica

March 12, 2023
Uvita is a small town located in the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is a hidden gem with a lot of natural beauty and plenty of things to do. If you’re planning a trip to Uvita, here are top 10 activities in Uvita to add to your itinerary. Activities in Uvita Visit Marino Ballena…

Shipping a Vehicle to Costa Rica

May 1, 2017
Shipping a Vehicle to Costa Rica Submitted by Jason Mueller, who has lived in Costa Rica for three years and specializes in facilitating the process of shipping vehicles to Costa Rica. If you have dreamed of living in a beautiful villa in paradise island, then Costa Rica is the place for you. Cos…

The Writers’ Retreat of San Buenas was a success

February 24, 2017
We recently completed planning and hosting the first ever Writers’ Retreat of San Buenas. Based on the feedback from all of the participants it was a great success!! Our featured author was Will Viharo, who has over ten books published (purchase one here on Amazon) and has a passion for writing p…

Our Next Home to be Built

June 29, 2016
We will soon begin building our next home here in Las Villas de San Buenas. We will be updating the progress here on the website, but we wanted to show you the 3D model. The owners of this home have spent almost a decade spending long periods of time every year in Costa Rica. Their custom designe…

My Christmas Eve in Paradise

December 24, 2015
I am house-sitting where you belong. This place belongs to you, dear Reader. Do you understand? I’m merely the gatekeeper, the house-sitter of YOUR paradise and I’m in bliss. Again, I repeat. It is Christmas Eve in Costa Rica and I’m in bliss. And this experience, belongs to you. Made some lemon…

The Sunsets of Costa Rica Are An Even Greater Phenomenon than Aurora Borealis

December 17, 2015
I’m not discrediting the Northern Lights. If you are like me, seeing the Aurora Borealis, a collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth’s atmosphere, is on your Bucket List. However, I don’t believe the Northern Lights will have anything on the sunsets of Costa Rica. Nick Halverson (L) and Carrol L Henderson enjoyed meeting and discussing Costa Rica earlier this week. their experience…

Costa Rica is the Happiest Country in the World…again

February 14, 2015
Costa Rica is the Happiest Country in the World Costa Rica has once again been judged to be the “Happiest Country in the World” by the Happy Planet Index. The rankings are based on the following three components, and each is given a traffic-light score based on thresholds for good (green), middli…

Costa Rica Tourism Up in 2014

February 12, 2015
Enjoying a drink at Tortilla Flats, Dominical, Osa, Costa Rica. International travel in Costa Rica increased 6.4% in 2014 (up by over 103,000 travelers compared to 2013). The number of travelers traveling through Costa Rica’…

We made a terrific choice!

January 23, 2015
We made a terrific choice! The Madrigal family from San Jose, Costa Rica, recently spent a week in Las Villas de San Buenas. After their stay they wrote the following review of their stay. ———— We decided to go south Costa Rica for our year end vacation. We’re from San Jose and we all dec…

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights to Costa Rica increasing

January 15, 2015
Original source: The Tico Times Southwest Airlines could start offering service to San José, Costa Rica, from Houston, Texas, as early as October 2015, according to a statement from the company on Thursday. San José is among six destinations for which the airline is seeking permission to serve …