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Costa Rica Offers Vacation Packages To Beat Upcoming Winter Blues Costa Rica, the jewel of Central America and global leader of sustainable tourism, has put together a broad variety of vacation packages and discounts to help travelers beat the upcoming winter blues.

Carmen Miranda may have made her money with bananas, but Chiquita has made a mint from tropical fruit.

Internet Video Uses Humour To Criticize Costa Rica's "Huecos" Costa Rica's famous "huecos" or potholes are now being featured on Youtube courtesy of alchiletv.com. Using humour the video attacks Costa Rica's pothole problems by offering drivers the KPS-U-ECO 2000, a GPS that allows drivers to know and avoid potholes on their route.

Find Costa Rica's Imperial Beer With Your iPhone Lovers of the Costa Rican beer, Imperial, can now locate the beer in their town around the United States with a new application only for the iPhone.

Process For Cellular Telecom Bidding Begins Tomorrow Tomorrow's publication of the cellular bid rules in the La Gaceta moves Costa Rica closer to cellular telecommunications competition to state telecom the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad and customers in Costa Rica, for the first time, having a choice of cellular carrier.

Frontier Airlines will begin seasonal service to Liberia, Costa Rica starting Feb.

William Dathan Holbert and Laura Michelle Reese arrived in Costa Rica via the port of Limon on a Cruise ship in 2006, and the body found under a mysterious concrete slab in Puerto Viejo is fugitive attorney Jeffery A. Kline. Many of the details of this story have been reconstructed recently by Don Winner in Panama, and the storyline could easily fill the pages of a crime novel.

Trip: Spends two nights at the Reserva Conchal in the Guanacaste region on the Northern Pacific Coast and three nights at the Mountain Paradise Resort in Arenal.