Where in Costa Rica - webinar recording

8 simple secrets to living longer

Did you know that people in Costa Rica live longer than elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere and that the Nicoya Peninsula is noe of the world's blue zones, where people live to over 100 in very large numbers and do so with health and vitality?

What are their secrets?

More on the Blue Zones

We have previously mentioned the Blue Zones - areas in the world where people live longer than everywhere else but they do so with Energy and Vitality.

In the Western Hemisphere people live longest in Costa Rica. Within Costa Rica, the Nicoya Peninsula is one of the 4 Blue Zones in the entire world.

After spending a considerable time in Costa Rica, Dan Buettner and the Blue Zones team summarize the Nicoyan lessons for living longer into this short video. www.bluezones.com



Live La Pura Vida and Live Longer

Costa Rica - Taiwan Friendship Bridge

Puente de la Amistad de Costa Rica-Taiwan ( "Costa Rica-Taiwan Friendship Bridge") spans the Tempisque River, in Guanacaste, northern Costa Rica.

At the upper end of the Gulf of Nicoya this bridge was completed in 2003. Prior to this, crossing the Tempisque River required a journey by ferry or long circuitous overland routes to travel from Guanacaste to the Nicoya Peninsula.

The bridge is a hybrid made up of a cable stayed span and a pillar supported bridge.

In total the bridge is 780 meters wide. On the Nicoya Peninsula side of the bridge their is a parking area and high viewing spot from which you can take photos of this spectacular bridge.

The local vendors located in the car park also supply cold drinks and fresh fruit juices.

Live in Costa Rica and live a longer (and happier) life

In one of our previous posts we did mention that Costa Rica has the longest life expectancy in the Western Hemisphere and that within Costa Rica people living on the Nicoya Peninsula live the longest of all.

Recently Oprah Winfrey (herself an owner of extensive properties in Costa Rica) covered this on her show.

Oprah interviewed Dan Buettner, a freelance writer for National Geographic who spent seven years researching his book The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest.

Dan discovered that worldwide there are four Blue Zones where people live to 100 or more in great numbers - The Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California, USA; Okinawa, Japan.

But living to 100 may sound like a mixed blessing but not in these blue zones because there people live to 100 with strength, vitality and happiness.

Their secret, well a combination of factors, diet, exercise, lifestyle, low stress.

The catch phrase in Costa Rica and used as an slogan by the Costa Rican Government is Pura Vida, litetally translated as Pure Life.

So enjoy Costa Rica, enjoy La Pura Vida and live longer.