By KSTR Wildlife Vet, Pia Martin DVM KSTR would like to share part our quarterly report submitted to MINAE (the Ministry of the Environment): In the last 3 months KSTR has rescued 44 animals, so in addition to the 31 we already had at the rescue center, it was total
Read MoreBy Sarah Munro Welcome to Quepolandia, where the fish outnumber the people. It doesn’t get better anywhere else. Maybe that’s why Costa Rica translated means Rich Coast. Either way, you are here, with access to some of the best fishing grounds on the planet. This year the Offshore World Championships
Read MoreBy Nancy Buchan For the Ticos and for those of us lucky enough to live in or be visiting this beautiful country, watching the World Cup soccer games last month was a proud and exciting thing. The Costa Rican Sele team played great, and made it clear to all that
Read MoreBy Os ¡Hola amigos! ¿Did you watch the games of “La Sele”? They did amazingly great, didn’t they? ¡¡We made historia for sure!! Last month we learned a super handy rule: The 2 WEEKS rule. ¿Remember how it goes? It goes like this: The 2 WEEKS rule is a handy
Read MoreBy Jim Parisi Peter Ellis is an American investigative reporter living in Paris. He’s in his late 30’s or early 40’s and has garnered an excellent reputation for his literary work, writing under then pseudonym Jean LeBlanc, mainly to protect himself from the victims of his pen. That’s how good
Read MoreBy Katherine Stanley Obando – July 6, 2014 Many Costa Ricans and their most fervent fans have been sitting in the eye of a storm for the past few weeks, struck dumb by amazement, watching wide-eyed as accolades all over the world for “the little team that could” have whirled
Read MoreBienvenidos/Welcome to Quepolandia! We are glad to have you with us….our beautiful area has so much to offer…from awesome restaurants to World Class Sport fishing and great tours…you can’t help but have a wonderful time!….we have just survived the most intense, wonderful experience of Costa Rica making it to the
Read MoreGetting Your Home to say “Buy Me!” to Prospective Buyers By Shelagh Duncan So, you have decided that you are going to sell your home. It could be that you have seen a fabulous property elsewhere, or for any number of other reasons. The bottom line is that you want
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Read MoreBy Jack Ewing Back in the 1980s, the economy in this part of Costa Rica was still driven by rice farming and cattle ranching. Tourism was something we all knew would come later, but nobody had a clear picture of how it would work. In 1986, the government paved the
Read MoreBy Jaime Peligro Forty years ago, Dan Storper traveled to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia to experience first-hand the countries he had focused on for his degree in Latin America studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He found himself enamored with the culture and opened a small South American
Read MoreBy Sarah Munro Got a bucket list? More or less, we all do. For those of us that fish, Quepos is the promised land. I remember when I hadn’t had the opportunity yet to charter a boat and go offshore fishing, for years I looked through brochures on vacation, never
Read MoreBy Seda Taysi Sejud, Owner of Villa Perezoso and KSTR Volunteer Pelota. Ellen. Kermie. Three of the cutest, sweetest, and most special two-toed sloths you will ever meet. Their story is one that we hope will make scientific history and provide vast amounts of knowledge about sloth behavior that hasn’t existed
Read MoreBy Amber Zuckswert Waltzing through the grocery isles, basket in hand, you pick up an apple. Quick, what are you thinking? Equally significant, what made you pick up a juicy piece of goodness instead of a bag of Doritos? Digging into your subconscious thoughts about food can reveal a wealth
Read MoreBy Nancy Buchan That bat-biting old rocker, Ozzie Osborne, once said “I think entertainers should stay entertainers and politicians should stay liars.” He’s probably right, but the temptation to use the fame and influence you might have as a musician in the political realm does suck some people in. Rarely
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