Driving instructions can be found here in English and aqui en español.

Shuttle schedules and information can be found here in English and aqui en español.

Keep these links handy so you can send them to your visitors who are coming from Arenal!

Arte Vive has managed to reschedule their event and they are pleased to announce that this much anticipated event will be happening on the final weekend in November.

In the coming week they will finalize the permits with the municipality which is helping them with the even. They want to thank everyone for their patience and the support shown to the association.

They also are pleased to announce that The EDACS Association, which sponsors and benefits from the event, has completed the following projects in the last month alone:

They have many other workshops in the planning for the coming weeks.

They also have renewed strength and commitment of continuing with their mission, despite the difficulty the association encountered with the cancelling of the original festival dates.

In the coming week, they will produce a new official poster promoting the event and they’d like local business owners to know that this poster will include the logos and mention those who have generously supported them.

However, they are asking hotels and other business that up to now have not made donations to consider becoming supporters of this unique and special event. Donations of $100 will receive a logo on the poster and $40 will receive a mention. Details of how to donate can be found on their website’s donation page.

More details on Arte Viva and EDACS can be found at www.arteviva-puertoviejo.com and the detailed event schedule will be posted there when it is available.

Global Creek is inviting you to celebrate the grand-opening of the new Global Creek at the existing Jo Jo’s Jungle Retreat! They want to celebrate and share what they have to offer, including:

Plus full retreat facilities and services for groups…and much more…

They’ll have ongoing tours of our varied facilities, guided interpretive nature trail hikes, yoga and body rolling classes, chair massages and more…all provided free of charge.

Snacks & non-alcoholic drinks provided throughout the day and organic wine & cheese in the evening with live music.

And it’s all free!

Nature Trail Tour 10:30, 1 & 3
Chair Massages 11, 2:30 & 5:30
Yoga Class 11:30 & 4
Body-Rolling Class 2 & 3pm
Live Music 5:30-7:30 with Organic Wines,Cheeses & Snacks
Bonfire with snacks & organic wines into the evening. . .

Free Shuttles will run between Puerto Viejo and Global Creek, in Hone Creek (see map for location, if you’re coming on your own):

Leaving PV: 10 & 10:30am, 1, 1:30, 3:30, 4pm
Returning to PV with returning guests after EACH “delivery”
…and FINAL SHUTTLES returning to PV at 7 & 8pm

For more information or questions, contact Kevin or Ahki@aglobalcreek.com, or 2750-2023.

Check out our new real estate page.

It lists all the companies operating in the area along with more information on them.

We’re also planning at some point to add real estate listings - by agencies and for sale by owner - to the site so stay tuned for that.  Our own Multiple Listing Service for Puerto Viejo!

ATEC is collecting items on behalf of various groups and also December is their 3rd annual school supply drive (the Costa Rican school year begins in January).

Please see their new wishlist here and help out if you can.

How times and hairstyles have changed!

The annual PROMOBIKE mountain bike event in Talamanca is coming soon!

Date: October 18, 2008.
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Cost: ¢ 5,000 colones and includes assistance, T-shirt, and a raffle.

Routes start and end at Comisariato Manuel León, Puerto Viejo.

Short Route: 36 kms, level 5-6, Puerto Vieje - Cocles - Margarita - Bribri - Hone Creek - Puerto Viejo

Long Route: 74 kms, level 7, Puerto Vieje - Cocles - Margarita - Bribri - Sixaola River - Bambu - Bratsi - Suretka - Uatsi - Bribri - Hone Creek - Puerto Viejo

For more information:
(506) 8383-8223
(506) 8389-5289
promobikecr@gmail.com

Finally JAPDEVA (Junta de Administración Portuaria y Desarrollo Económica de la Vertiente Atlántica or the Board of Port Administration and Economic Development for the Atlantic Coast) has made good on the offer they made 3 months ago to repair and pave 2 kilometers of the road between Puerto Viejo and Hone Creek. During the last 3 days, their equipment has been working to prepare the surface of the road for these 2 km that are between Hone Creek and approximately the Hotel Hawa. We will have to continue fighting to ensure that the remaining 4 km are paved and, in the short term, repaired.

The original in Spanish read:

Finalmente JAPDEVA cumplio con su ofrecimiento hecho hace tres meses de arreglar y asfaltar al menos dos kilometros de la carretera entre Hone Creek y Puerto Viejo. Hace 3 diss maquinaria de ese ente comenzo los trabajos de preparacion de la superficie a fin de posteriormente asfaltar esos 2 diolometros que estan entre Hone Creek y aproximadamente el Hotel Hawa.. Tendremos que seguir luchando para que el resto de este tramo de aprox. 4 kilometros tambien sea reparado en el corto plazo.

Thank you CATCAS for your hard work!

The University of Costa Rica is hosting a discussion on the impacts of Globablization and Free Trade on our communities.

The event will be held Oct 3 at 10 a.m. at La Casa de la Cultura.

For more information contact Kioscos@accionsocial.ucr.ac.cr or telephone 2207-4361 or 2280-1841.

Source: Greencoast News: Charla sobre Globalización y Libre Comercio

The details aren’t clear and nor is when the event will be able to be rescheduled.

The festival is organized by Escuela de Artes del Caribe Sur (South Caribbean School of Arts), a nonprofit that provides arts education to local school children, and was scheduled to begin this Friday. Event organizer Claudio Ambroso said the festival is their major fundraiser and if they are not able to eventually hold the event, they will be hard pressed to provide services to their community this year.

Some of the restaurant and bar events which don’t require a permit will continue as planned, check directly with the venue to confirm.  Eddie Ryan at La Costa de Papito said that the events planned at his hotel’s Que Rico Papito Restaurant and Bar including tonight’s Calypso Night will continue as planned.

Sources: Tico Times: Weekend’s Puerto Viejo festival canceled unexpectedly and local inquiries.