The 45-member hippie commune at the Pure Life Treehouse Community in southern Costa Rica is yet to learn of the Covid-19 pandemic, native Jerry de Jong said Monday, adding that residents spend most of their time pondering the cosmos and aligning their chakras, not reading news. “You news, you lose man,” de Jong said Monday beneath…
Costa Rica’s Tourism Institute unveiled a new statue today to commemorate the “courage, leadership and educational vision” demonstrated by British teacher Richard Glenn, who got drunk and took teenaged students to a strip club while on a school trip to the Central American country in 2019. Glenn, who received international attention following his teaching ban…
Our Mae of the Week is Brad Reardon. Originally from Ann Arbor Michigan, Brad has spent the last five years of his post 6-year community college life teaching English at the Let Go Inglish Academy in Alajuela. Recently, he has been considering a career change to full-time Ropa Americana model since the move to online classes has…
Movie director Steven Spielberg, who announced Monday that he will redo the idiotic scene in Jurassic Park that depicts San José, Costa Rica as a tropical beach town, has shared exclusive images from the movie’s on-going update, being filmed in the capital city known as Chepe. Stay tuned to Elpeji.com for exclusive updates and images…
The Central American nation of Costa Rica is the world’s best place to flee when trying to escape criminal charges, tax evasion, crippling drug addictions, or overall creepy shit you wouldn’t even write in your own diary, a recent study found. Long considered a refuge for foreigners trying to leave baggage behind and outrun their…
Sun-starved Canucks cause confusion, polar(izing) vortex angst in Nicoya Peninsula MAL PAÍS — As the western hemisphere continues to dig itself out of the pandemic version of a polar vortex, Costa Ricans breathed a sigh of relief this week after what was first thought to be snowfall on a local beach was actually just pasty…
A Houston man trying to fly to the Costa Rican town of Liberia last week found himself in the west African nation of the same name some 32 hours later. Attempting to escape record cold that left millions of Texans without electricity, Tony Townsend, 44, jumped at a Southwest Airlines promotion offering cheap flights to…
“Read my lips: No New Street Names” José María Figueres, a presidential hopeful for 2022, assured Costa Ricans on Monday that he has no plans to change the country’s highly efficient address system, an announcement celebrated by attendees of the press conference held 80 meters north and 25 meters east of the Musmanni bakery in…
Despite 3 months of shacking up with Puerto Viejo Rastas, not assumed Latina PUERTO VIEJO — After three months living the dream of a Puerto Viejo beach bum, 21-year-old Brit Francesca Wagstaff was utterly insulted when she was identified as a native English speaker on a local bus last week. The Durham University graduate, whose blog…
Sacrifice refuses to throw himself into the crater HEREDIA — Eruptions from the Turrialba Volcano continued Thursday afternoon, spewing even more ash into the air. The explosion is the most recent in the increasingly violent activity from the volcano. Scientists are concerned that if preventative measures are not taken soon, the entire central valley will become covered…
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