From the filling to the crust, these are the best empanadas in Costa Rica.
My husband and I have discovered the best empanadas north of Argentina, which are conveniently located here in Costa Rica. Donde El Ché on the east side of San Jose in San Pedro, comes highly recommended.

The difference between Tico empanadas and Argentinian empanadas are the crusts. Ticos love their corn-based dough and Donde El Ché’s are made of flour. I definitely prefer the flour and baking them as opposed to frying them into balls of …

Five regions you cannot miss on your next trip
Costa Rica vacation specialists often produce cookie cutter itineraries for travelers, which trap them in the tourist circuit from San Jose to Arenal Volcano or Jaco to Manuel Antonio. Or if your unlucky you are sent to Guanacaste where there are many nice all inclusive resorts but that is not Costa Rica, what you experience is customer service. Each of these tourist circuits owes its popularity to the natural beauty, tourist infrastructure but there are many other Costa Rican hideouts that are …

JetBLue Airline completed its first non-stop flight to San Jose, Costa Rica on March 26th 2009.  Costa Rica is the first Central American destination for JetBlue where they offer a daily flight from Orlando, Florida. 
This is a significant event for tourism in Costa Rica because it is proof that the tourism sector is still growing while many other nations experience decreases. In addition, JetBlue adds many seats that were desperately needed to accomodate this tourism increase.
Without the extra seats from JetBlue tourism in Costa Rica will not be able to …

Walking through the town of Jaco this past week, one cannot help but notice all of the young north Americans parading around town. I decided to ask a five groups of college students what was their keystone in choosing Costa Rica for their sprink break vacation. Of the five groups I asked, 3 said they said their parents gave them extra money for travel if they chose another spring break destination. The other two groups had purposely made plans to visit Costa Rica despite Mexico drug wars. What surprised me …

Costa Rica will begin to receive direct flights from low cost carrier JetBlue.
The first direct flights from the budget airline will arrive at the Juan Santamaria Airport on Thursday, March 26. According to a JetBlue spokesperson, the brasilian aircraft, an Embraer E190, with capacity for 100 people is filling up fast. The company already turned in all necessary application documents to the Civil Aviation Authority and is just waiting for a three month provisional license to be awarded by the Technical Council. Jet Blue is also set to open six …

 
With the high prices of oil in the last year and the crash of the US economy the airline industry is having a terrible time making ends meet. Even in the doom and gloom atmospehere there is still hope for the tourism market in Costa Rica. While Continental Airlines has cut 3000 jobs and reduced their routes by 11% worldwide, Costa Rica will receive increased services.
Continental plans additional flights because it believes Costa Rica is a solid tourist destination market and that its maturity will propel continued increases in tourism. …

The Buffer Zone Around Las Baulas Park is Marked in Green.
While the global economy and lack of available financing have caused a lull in construction in Jaco, including the termination of works already in progress, activists are also winning the fight to stop growth around an important marine park in Tamarindo. This latest effort recently lead to a Supreme Court decision to stop urban development bordering on the Las Baulas Marine Park indefinitely.
The area specifically in question is a 500 meter strip of land that serves as a buffer zone …