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Costa Rica Selina Hostel Nosara Selina Hostel Opens Doors in Nosara Costa Rica

Selina inaugurated another of its hotels in Costa Rica, this time in Nosara, Guanacaste, with the idea of offering surf lovers, backpackers and adventurers a laid back, modern environment where they can feel comfortable and enjoy the beautiful location. “Nosara, Costa Rica is paradise for surfers and yogis looking for a warm, sunny getaway. This popular retreat location is renowned for its unsp...

Costa Rica Surf National Tournament Leonardo Calvo and Rubiana Brownell Win Surfing Republica Cup in Guiones

The third date of the Kölbi National Surf Tournament received almost 300 participants this past weekend in Playa Guiones, Nosara, Guanacaste, in the Surfing Republica Cup. 21 year-old, Leo Calvo from Boca Barranca, Puntarenas, took the first place in the Open category, beating Ramón Taliani, Olman Morales and Sebastian Mora, all from Santa Teresa, Cóbano. Calvo has previously won in the U1...

Top Ten Reasons Nosara Costa Rica is an Expat Haven

Over the years Costa Rica has become one of the main expat havens in Latin America, the country possesses specific characteristics that make it attractive for foreigners who are looking for a peaceful place to live where they can enjoy the tropical weather and the benefits of living surrounded by raw nature while at the same time enjoying a comfortable life with access to modern-day amenities. ...

Guanacaste Costa Rica Guanacaste Costa Rica Among the 50 Best Places to Visit in 2019

Travel & Leisure Magazine posted their list of 50 Best Places to Travel to in 2019 and included in the list is the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. ¨With its beach-meets-jungle coastline, splendid array of biodiversity, and climate as warm as the locals, it's no wonder Costa Rica's northwestern corner became an early paragon of ecotourism. That's a lot of paradise to protect. Now, Guanac...

Costa Rica Blue ZOne 5 Reasons Expats Want to Live in a Costa Rican Blue Zone

Blue Zones are geographic areas with high concentrations of individuals over 100 years of age and were people generally get to an advance age without experiencing health problems like obesity, heart disease, cancer or diabetes; one of the few blue zones around the world is found in Costa Rica, more specifically in the Nicoya Peninsula. According to recent data by the Ministry of Health, there a...

Nosara Plebiscite Initial Vote Count in Nosara Plebiscite Indicates Nosara Will Continue to be Part of Nicoya Administration

After the voting this Sunday in the Nosara plebiscite, the initial count shows that the minimum number of votes needed was not reached, meaning that Nosara will remain under the administration of the Nicoya Municipality. The plebiscite process was overseen by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE,) and called on all inhabitants of Nicoya to vote on their position regarding the administrative indepen...

Nosara Plebiscite This Sunday Inhabitants of Nicoya, Guanacaste Will Vote on Administrative Independence of Nosara

This Sunday, June 3, over 40 thousand inhabitants of Nicoya, Guanacaste are called to vote on the administrative independence for the district of Nosara. The plebiscite which will be overseen by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), will decide on whether or not to form the Municipal District Council of Nosara. In other words, Nosara will continue to be part of the Nicoya Municipality but it wi...

Surf Hotel Nosara Guanacaste The Gilded Iguana Surf Hotel In Nosara, Guanacaste Reopens With New Look

The Gilded Iguana Surf Hotel, located in the heart of Playa Guiones­, one of the most consistent surf breaks in the world, underwent a world-class renovation and expansion. This hotel is designed by and for, surfers and outdoor lovers. A landmark at the beaches of Nosara, Costa Rica, The Gilded Iguana Surf Hotel provides casual relaxation, comfort and excellent service. Internationally acclaime...

Nosara Escape Room Nosara Escape Room – Entertainment in Nosara, Guanacaste

As of this past December 18 the beach community of Nosara has a new entertainment option, the first Escape Room in Guanacaste opened doors at Guiones Beach. The Escape Room is a fun entertainment activity geared towards teenagers and adults, a team must try to accomplish a mission and escape in less than 60 minutes, this game requires teamwork, the use of logic, observation and problem-solving ...

Guanacaste Floods Nosara, Tamarindo, Playas del Coco,in Guanacaste are Some of the Communities Affected by Heavy Rain

Several areas of Guanacaste have suffered the consequences of the heavy rains caused by the tropical depression that formed in the western Caribbean Sea and that is having an indirect effect over the country, keeping most of the territory under red alert. So far it has been the province of Guanacaste which has reported the most problems, with floods, mudslides and several overflowing rivers. ...

Nosara Hotels Nalu Where to Stay in Nosara: Nalu Boutique Hotel

Nosara, in Guanacaste is one of the most beautiful areas in Guanacaste, located on the northern coast of Costa Rica’s Nicoya Península. Nosara has been developing quite fast, with a big expat community, all necessary services and several lodging alternatives; one of the most recent hotels to open doors is Nalu Nosara, which just inaugurated in December of 2016. Nalu Boutique Hotel offers three ...

Kalia Living Bellazo Costa Rica Realty Group International Partners With Kalia Living to Offer an Exclusive Look at Luxury Properties in Costa Rica

Realty Group International (RGI) is pleased to announce their new partnership with Costa Rican luxury developer Kalia Living. Providing the ultimate discovery tour experience for interested investors and home buyers, RGI is offering clients an exclusive opportunity to explore Costa Rica and experience the Bellazo properties first hand. Bellazo is a modern luxury, gated community on the Pacific ...

Free Stay Costa Rica FREE 4 day 3 night Real Estate Discovery Tour in Costa Rica

Most of us are weary of the different promotions we hear about online, especially when they sound too good to be true, and that´s because 9 out of 10 times, it is too good to be true; this promotion, however, may be the exception to the rule, no hard pressure sales, no strings attached; the idea is basically to show interested parties the incredible Bellazo project in Nosara, Guanacaste, so, if yo...

Invest in Costa Rica through IRA Introducing Bellazo by Kalia Living – Nosara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Bellazo is Kalia Living’s newest gated ocean-view community, located in the exclusive area of Nosara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Offering modern luxurious eco-friendly designed homes, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and surrounded by lush mesmerizing nature. A self-contained community with all the amenities, spa, gourmet restaurant, beach club, sports courts, biking, hiking trails, maid services and va...

Invest Real Estate Nosara Costa Rica 10 Reasons Nosara Costa Rica is a Great Place to Invest in Real Estate

Costa Rica as a country has certain characteristics that make it a magnet for real estate investment, in general, investors have turned their eye to this Central American country for quite some time now, and it has to do mainly with the country’s political and financial stability, which translates into a low-risk investment. In addition to the above, Costa Rica’s geographical position, fantasti...

Vacation Homes Costa Rica How to turn your Vacation home in Costa Rica into a cash cow

Most people who buy a vacation home do so, of course, with the idea of spending as much time as possible there, they choose the perfect spot to spend their free time, and a house they absolutely love. Many others think of it as an investment, the opportunity to make money with your vacation home in Costa rica along the way, but how do you turn your vacation home into a cash cow ? We’ve all hear...

Nosara, Costa Rica’s Guiones Beach Considered World’s Top Surf Break

Finding the perfect wave has been called a mystic experience by surfers, many of whom comb the world’s beaches in search of unbeatable breaks. A recent study by Sydney University economist Sam Wills and Thomas McGregor of Oxford University, good waves are a valuable commodity. “We find that surfing waves contribute approximately US$50 billion to global economic activity each year,” said the res...

Buying real estate in Costa Rica Learn About Costa Rica’s Largest Eco Developer: Kalia Living

When the term luxury is mentioned many people think exclusively about extravagant living, splendor, even opulence; perhaps what comes to mind are images of magnificent resorts in Dubai; yet, luxury in Costa Rica goes a bit beyond that, sure, it encompasses great comfort and stunning designs, but it has a lot more to do with eco-friendly living, sustainability and natural settings that cannot be re...

Welcome to Lagarta Lodge – New hotel in Nosara, Costa Rica

The community of Nosara in the district of Nicoya, province of Guanacaste, is known for its beauty, exclusivity, great surfing conditions, and because of the Ostional Wildlife Refuge, a nesting site visited by thousands of sea turtles every year. This is the location of the boutique hotel Lagarta eco-lodge which opened to the public this past January 9th. Sitting in the mountain hills of Nos...

Turtles Ostional Costa Rica Sea turtles arrive at Ostional in Costa Rica, some badly hurt

The Ostional National Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica witnesses the arrival of thousands of turtles every year for nesting season, a spectacular natural event which takes place several times a year since four different species of sea turtles take to this place to lay their eggs. This past Monday a calculated amount of almost eleven thousand olive ridley sea turtles made it to this nesting site in...

Costa Rica Best Places to Live Best Places for Expats to Live in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is among the preferred destinations by expats, every year many tourists visit the country on vacation and fall in love with the place, they make the decision of moving here, but the first question they ask themselves is: Where should we live? With the help from our friends from Immigration Experts, here we offer you information on the best and preferred places by expats to live in Co...

Turtles Nesting Season Costa Rica Thousands of sea turtles arrive for nesting season in Costa Rica

(EFE).- Thousands of sea turtles are arriving in the Ostional National Wildlife Refuge on Costa Rica's Pacific coast to nest, guide Yamilet Baltodano told EFE Tuesday. "We estimate that between 98,000 and 100,000 turtles have arrived, with the ones coming to nest reaching here as hatchlings emerge from eggs," Baltodano said. This is the second large wave of nesting turtles this year, followi...

Moving to Costa Rica Costa Rica Vacation Rentals: A Trend That is Here to Stay

Hotels are not for everyone, in many cases it’s the high prices that will get you looking for other alternatives, in other cases the impersonal service, perhaps privacy is a factor, and others simply prefer a more “homey” environment when they vacation, or maybe you have a big family and/or pets and hotels are just not an option for you; whatever the reason may be, the fact is that vacation rental...

Nosara, Guanacaste Discover Nosara, Guanacaste Costa Rica

If you love spending time in Guanacaste but would like to see other beaches aside from Tamarindo and Flamingo, perhaps somewhere that’s a little more secluded, how about the area of Nosara? Nosara is a district of the county of Nicoya in Guanacaste, it’s actually home to a big community of American expats that established in the area many years back. The town of Nosara is 6 kilometers from the ...

Costa Rica Rental Car Agency Welcomes British Tourists

Source: Green Motion Costa Rica  London, United Kingdom - 10 March 2016 -- British Airways from the 27th of April 2016 will be flying a direct route from the United Kingdom (London Gatwick Airport) to San Jose (SJO) in the beautiful country of Costa Rica. These direct flights are scheduled to take place twice a week during the summer and then increasing to three flights a week for those cra...

Nosara, Guanacaste HGTV Films Beachfront Real Estate Show in Costa Rica

Beach house in Costa Rica United States cable network Home & Garden Television, better known for HGTV, chose Costa Rica for an episode of its acclaimed Beachfront Bargain Hunt reality show. Episode 3 of Season 10 takes place in Playa Nosara, a coastal community in the province of Guanacaste that is part of the Gold Coast beaches of Costa Rica.   The title of the episode is No Sh...

CNN Reporter Unable to Get Zika Test After Costa Rica Vacation

Wikimedia Commons Alison Kosik, a business correspondent for CNN based in New York, enjoyed a vacation in Costa Rica in late January. Just one day after her return to the United States, she noticed that she had endured various mosquito bites at the beach, and she also started feeling headaches, sweats and chills. In an interesting report published on CNN.com, Ms. Kosik recounts her odyssey ...

Doctors Publish Study of Zika-Infected US Tourist in Costa Rica

Zika map. Source: CDC The full case of a 55-year old tourist from the United States, who contracted the Zika virus in Costa Rica, has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a medical journal established in 1927 by the American College of Physicians. The author of the article is Dr. Lin H. Chen of the Mount Auburn Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts. Mount Auburn...

Zika Virus US tourist falls ill with Zika virus after vacationing in Costa Rica

Zika is spread by the Aedes aegyptie mosquito (Wikimedia Commons) A tourist from the United States fell ill with the Zika virus after visiting Costa Rica, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Costa Rican health officials, who are investigating what could be the first case of indigenous transmission of the virus in the country.  The announcement was made by the Minister o...

The Serene Coves of Nosara in Costa Rica

Source: Nomadic-by-Nature.com By Mike McCaffrey In early June, before the rains bloat the rivers and the roads wash away, when the flame red flowers of the malinche tree fall in halos around their trunks — the olive ridley sea turtles crawl ashore at Ostional beach under the cover of night.  In the mornings, the Guanacaste cowboys create tornadoes of dust with their cattle, but in the after...

Not In My Backyard: Prisons Are Hard to Build in Costa Rica

Pixabay Commons Residents of Nicoya, many of them North American expats, have scored a victory in their battle against the Ministry of Justice, which intended to build a new prison in that Guanacaste canton. Earlier this month, Minister of Justice Cecilia Sanchez appeared before the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica and explained that she was suspending construction of a new prison in the ...

An Eco-Friendly, Boutique Surf Lodge in Nosara, Costa Rica

Source: Olas Verdes TransWorld Business Press Release - PLAYA GUIONES, Costa Rica – Olas Verdes, a Costa Rican boutique hotel in Playa Guiones, Nosara is thrilled to announce its opening as the world’s first LEED certified surf hotel. Tucked away from the coastline alongside the jungle, Olas Verdes provides immediate access to serenity and adventure. Native plants blend with the amenities of t...

Luxury Real Estate Auction by Keller Williams in Costa Rica

Source: Supreme Auctions GUANACASTE, Costa Rica, Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 14th, 2015, four contemporary eco-luxury villas located on the Nicoya Peninsula in Guanacaste Province will be sold at a single luxury no reserve absolute auction, offered by Supreme Auctions in cooperation with Chris Suarez of Keller Williams Realty International, Costa Rica. Each Nirvana Sanctuary ho...

Summer Dance Camp for Girls in Costa Rica

Source; ADTC A dance academy that specializes in summer camps for girls recently published a new video that explains their approach to dance instruction. The American Dance Training Camp features summer camp locations in seven different spot in the United States; its sole international location is Costa Rica, specifically in Playa Nosara. As it happens, the location in Costa Rica is very popul...

12-Step Program: A Perfect Vacation in Costa Rica

What do you consider to be the perfect Costa Rica vacation? Your answer is bound to reflect your personality, but many of you will probably think about achieving a perfect balance of thrills and relaxation while trying to have as much fun as possible. If you are looking for ideas on what to do the next time you are in Costa Rica, this 12-step guide by a young and fashionable woman from Spain will ...

Buying a House in Guanacaste, Costa Rica’s Gold Coast, Part 2

On Day Three of her Costa Rica real estate adventure, Boston accountant Kristine Gorman gets even closer to fulfilling her dream of retiring in our country. On Days One and Two of her trip to Guanacaste, Kris and her family stayed in Playa Flamingo and were very close to making a formal offer on a home on a condo in Tamarindo Beach. To learn more about Kris and her expat mission, read our previous...

Miss Sky Canopy Tour Top tours in Nosara, Costa Rica

Nosara, Costa Rica is renowned for some of the best surfing in Costa Rica, and for being a yoga paradise. But there are plenty of other exciting adventure and nature tours to do as well on this string of beautiful beaches along the Nicoya Peninsula. Here are five fun tours to try during your visit to Nosara and Playa Guiones: 1. Miss Sky Canopy Tour Tours: 8:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. daily. Wh...

Nosara Yoga Institute, Costa Rica Yoga and Surfing are top Draws at Nosara, Costa Rica

One of the most well-known landmarks at Nosara, Costa Rica is the Nosara Yoga Institute (NYI). People come from all over the world for the yoga teacher training and yoga classes at the internationally-renowned center. Opened in 1994 by founders Don and Amba Stapleton, NYI is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Starting in the 1970s, pioneering expats from the U.S. began trickling into t...

Nosara Yoga and Surf Fundraises to Benefit Orphanage in Haiti

When a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in July 2010, within 30 frightening seconds, 220,000 were left dead. In the wake of this tragedy, nearly one million children were orphaned or abandoned. To simply sit back and only contemplate the atrocity of this situation was not an option for Nosara resident Kristin O’Connell. She felt the need to act. After volunteering as a midwife in Haiti in 2010,...

Possible Outbreak of Infectious Anemia Troubles Nosara Horse Owners

Horse infected with equine anemiaSome Nosara horse owners are concerned about a possible outbreak of infectious equine anemia among animals in the area, due to the death of one horse that tested positive for the disease on February 8th. Carrie Anderson, a resident of Nosara, said that “Tornado” was the name of the horse that had the sickness, in addition to an ailment known as Laminitis that a...