A musical legend in Costa Rica, with nearly two decades of experience composing and performing music around the world.
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"Costa Rica as a country embodies everything my life story is about – peace, forgiveness, and teaching our kids that they are the future".
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Remember the very first season of the reality show Survivor? The winner ended up in the slammer. Well, perhaps this should be the fate for producers of...
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The alarm sounds at 5:30 a.m., and Juan Palacios rolls his tired body out of bed for another nine-hour day at the Del Monte banana plantation, near Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.
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When William Blake wrote "Great things are done when men and mountains meet," he probably wasn't envisioning a tourist destination based around a lava-spewing 3-cratered conical volcano.
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Native Costa Rican artist Debi Nova's first album release is making waves in the U.S. and abroad. Her first video "Drummer Boy" is just a taste of the multi-talented artist's skill and music style.
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The people of Costa Rica celebrate their rich heritage at town carnivals or fiestas tipicas, which are hosted in turn by different cities throughout the year.
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Political graffiti - not your typical tourist attraction - liters the walls of the city adding at once color and filth.
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With the 6.2 earthquake in Cinchona fresh in the national memory, Costa Rica was one of the first countries to dispatch a team of 57 rescue workers to help in the search and recovery efforts in Haiti.
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Costa Rica ranks 1st on the world happiness index according to a study by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) published on July 4, 2009.
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Rocket scientist Franklin Chang Diaz is a national hero in Costa Rica. He is the first Costa Rican astronaut and the only one to reach outer space on a NASA mission.
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A row of keys and a pair of sticks are all it takes to awaken happiness in Costa Rica, where the marimba, though not a Tico creation, has become part of our family.
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Native Costa Rican Gaston Fournier is the artistic director for the infamous La Scala Theatre in Milan, Italy. See what he had to share with Landings about the experience in the fashion capital of the world.
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Our ancestors who lived in Costa Rica’s south
Pacific left as their legacy a mysterious production of artistically elaborate stones.
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Halloween in Costa Rica is still considered a pagan holiday, a “gringo” import designed to seduce small children with candy towards the greater sugars of consumerism.
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