One of the most successful films of all times, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), depicts San José, the capital of Costa Rica, as a coastal town where the U.S. protagonists scheme in the midst of sandy beaches and banana trees.
Documentary photography about the most important cultural celebration of the Brunca people.
Sitting in the restaurant of the Park Hotel in Port Limón, I began to reminisce about the years I’ve spent visiting, learning about and studying the culture and people of the Caribbean province of Costa Rica.
In the heart of the memory, history, and literature of Costa Rica lies the story of an agricultural company that changed the way of working the land, planting, harvesting, distributing, marketing and advertising its product.
The first time my family went to Monteverde in our native Costa Rica, we thought we were well-prepared for what we anticipated to be a long trip on dusty country roads—as travel-loving Ticos, we had been on many such trips around our country.
Growing up in Costa Rica, we read Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude.
