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Costa Rica - 'no artificial ingredients'
As a national catchphrase Pura Vida is about as good as they come. Literally it means ‘Pure Life’ but it can just as easily equate to take it easy, chill out, why worry?…

Just a hundred years ago the ‘Rich Coast’ was still being scorned as a particularly unattractive and desolate southern fringe of ‘The Mosquito Coast.’ It is largely thanks to the Tico’s live-and-let-live, pura vida attitude that enough of that dense cloak of rainforest has survived intact so that the ‘Rich Coast’ of today has earned a name as one of the planet’s most diverse wilderness and wildlife reserves. Even a walk down a village high street can frequently offer more sightings (monkeys, squirrels, reptiles, hummingbirds and countless butterflies) than the national parks of many other countries.

Profile:
Area: 51,100 sq km
Population: 4 million
Population density: 78 people / sq km
Languages: Spanish is the official language of Costa Rica but English is widely understood throughout the tourist areas. On the Caribbean coast many people also speak a lively dialect of Creole English.
When to go: The best time to travel is during the dry season, from December to April (what the Ticos call Summer). Rains can be sporadic to downright torrential throughout the rest of the year, and in the Caribbean region at any time. (It’s called the rainforest with good reason).
Conversation stopper: Surrounded by pugnacious neighbours such as Nicaragua and El Salvador only a people as laidback as the Ticos could ever have come up with the crazy phenomenon of a ‘Banana Republic’ that doesn’t even have an army.
Factfile: Click here for more information.
Articles:
Pura Vida -an overview of Costa Rican wildlife and wild ways
Battle of the Beachhead -turtle migrations on Costa Rican beaches

 

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