Costa Rica as viewed by kids--with 14 year-old podcast host Sophia Aquino
From darkness to light--Costa Rica's Museo de los Niños in San Jose, Costa Rica
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Gloria Calderón, Director of the Museo de los Niños in San Jose, Costa Rica talks about the engaging hands-on children’s museum on the NPR.ORG podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer produced by KCBX. The Children’s Museum opened in 1994 in a long abandoned former prison. The idea to re-purpose the prison as a place of light for children was conceived and shepherded by the former first Lady of the Republic of Costa Rica, Mrs. Gloria Bejarano de Calderón, Gloria’s mother.
Costa Rica's Greentique Hotels-environmental trendsetter ideally suited for families
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Jim Damalas with Greentique Hotels in Costa Rica talks about the trend setting hotel group’s four distinctive properties, set within four of the country’s five tropical forests, and the group’s intrinsic philosophy of trendsetting environmental sustainability. Listen to Damalas on the NPR.ORG podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer produced by NPR affiliate KCBX.
