Tag: Boruca crafts
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The Mindful Traveler’s Guide to the Costa Ballena
Costa Rica protects roughly a quarter of its land, runs largely on renewable energy, and built its entire global brand on pura vida and the natural world. The South Pacific coast — the Costa Ballena — is one of the wildest, least-developed stretches of it, and that’s no accident: strict laws limiting coastal development…
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Skip the Supermarket: How to Shop Like a Local in Ojochal
There’s a version of a Costa Rica trip where you buy everything at the supermarket, and there’s a far better one where you don’t. The chain supermercados are fine for the basics — but the real flavor of this coast lives in the weekly feria, the French baker who makes you reserve your baguette two…