Published on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Victor Krumm The Osa Peninsula, virtually the same size as NY City, juts into the Pacific Ocean along the southwestern coast of Costa Rica. Whatever the two places have in common in land area, they couldn't be any more different. The Peninsula is among the last really wild places in Central America and home to one of the best parks of Costa Rica—-or anywhere else. Bounde...

Published on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 by Kadin J. Maestri Interested with regard to your ultimate paradise? You may have discovered it in Costa Rica. Situated in Central America, Costa Rica borders both Caribbean Sea and also the Pacific Ocean. Costa Rica is a small country however it is definitely Big in adventure. Holidays are throughout every season within this tropical vacation playground! The province of Guanacaste i...

Published on Monday, January 23, 2012 by Victor C. Krumm It was certain to occur with medical expenses increasing in the States : overseas medical tourism. Like America's automobile industry three decades ago, the American medical establishment regularly acts like it's a monopoly having a captive audience and the American public has no choice but to continue to pay ever increasing prices because there aren't any viable...

Published on Sunday, January 22, 2012 by Victor C. Krumm It was certain to occur with medical expenses increasing in the States : overseas medical tourism. Like America's auto industry 25 years ago, the U.S. medical industry frequently acts like it's a monopoly having a captive audience and that, because of this, the American public has no choice but to continue to pay constantly rising prices because there aren't any ...

Published on Sunday, January 22, 2012 by Victor Krumm For visitors interested in culture, evolution of societies, art, and history, there are several Costa Rica museums in central San Jose that offer a glance into the lives of the people that came before us. This article is about two of them, the Costa Rica Jade Museum and Costa Rica Gold Museum. Both are within a short walking distance of Costa Rica's National Theat...

Published on Saturday, January 21, 2012 by Victor C. Krumm She had turned 15 and sexually mature as she drifted offshore in the waters of the eastern Pacific off the tiny beach we call Ostional. The afternoon November rains had slipped away and she waited expectantly 500 yards from the beach. In its final quarter now, the moon was having an unseen effect upon her. A few yards away, another female turtle joined her, then a...

Published on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 by Victor C. Krumm With nearly 800 miles of coastline along two tropical seas, Costa Rica's famous beaches draw hundreds of thousands visitors annually. Snow white sand to dark brown and black colored sand to boulder-strewn beaches embellish the small country. Long a global leader in sustainable development, this Central American country implemented the: 1. 1998 Costa Rica Biodivers...

Published on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 by Victor Krumm With winter upon those living in the Northern Hemisphere, Americans, Canadians, and Europeans are taking much-needed tropical holidays to Costa Rica. For many of them the attraction comes from its tropical beaches along two azure oceans. For others, it's the prospect of ecotourism to places like Tortuguero National Park. Some come for fishing, surfing during the day...

Published on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 by Victor Krumm On the Costa Rica Pacific coast along the coasts of the Osa Peninsula, almost on the Panama border, you'll find theCorcovado National Park. This is a unique protected habitat and is the biggest remaining primary forest on the Pacific Coast from Mexico to South America. There are eight different habitats to be found in the 100,000 acres (42,000 hectares) which form a...

Published on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 by Victor Krumm With medical costs in the States startlingly verging on being completely out-of-control with no end in sight, more and more residents have had to delay or even forego health care just because they could not afford the kind of care they deserved and wanted. More money per capita is spent on health care by Americans than any other country on earth and, apart from Ea...