Dancing

Salsa, Merengue, and Cumbia...oh yes, bring your dance shoes. Friday nights we offer a live band at The Pearl of the Osa, there is a hot little dance club in town on the weekends, and we also arrange group and private dance lessons. Costa Ricans are great dancers (read below).

Quoting from Chris Baker's Costa Rican Handbook and National Geographic: "On weekends rural folks flock to small town dance halls, and the Ticos' celebrated reserve gives way to outrageously flirtatious dancing befitting a land of passionate men and women..says National Geographic: 'To watch the viselike clutching of Ticos and Ticas dancing, whether at a San Jose discotheque or a crossroads cantina, is to marvel that the birthrate in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation is among Central America's lowest'."

The photos on your left of course show the fabulous dancing to be found here. Please note the group shot of the Araya family, all of whom are great dancers, great friends, and not too shabby on the volleyball court either.