Costa Rica is gearing up to host the 2009 ISA Billabong World Surfing Championship in Playa Hermosa, July 31 to Aug. 9, with 40 nations and 280 surfers participating. This year's competition will be ...

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In a week of stunning surfing by Costa Rica’s junior national surf team in Portugal’s São Miguel Island in the Azores, it was the work of two females who helped the team make history with a seventh ...

Nosara represents everything authentic about Costa Rica's Pacific coast - a place where consistent world-class surf breaks meet genuine Tico culture, and where the pace of life naturally slows to ...

GUIONES, Costa Rica — A vacation to escape the cold led us to Costa Rica's Pacific Coast, where we went surfing, horseback riding, deep-sea fishing and even visited a dry tropical forest. Our extended ...

GUIONES, Costa Rica (AP) – A vacation to escape the cold led us to Costa Rica's Pacific Coast, where we went surfing, horseback riding, deep-sea fishing and even visited a dry tropical forest. Our ...