For pura vida purists and locals here in Jaco Costa Rica, seeing someone ride a wave using a stand up paddle board and then a Segway PT gliding along the beach, they must be thinking they are in another world. Originally posted here: It is unlike anything you have ever seen before, Jaco Segway tours using Segway personal transporters gliding along Pastor Diaz in Jaco. Not the usual ATV tours with a caravan of people roaring off to some mountain trails but 1 or 2 Segway gliders moving along silently heading off to ??, well we do not know. According to the new site which is offering Jaco Segway tours, segway-cr.com, they are offering tours of Jaco Beach and Los Suenos. more…
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After what was a horrible first year, the organizers of the Jaco Beach Art Festival have learned from their lessons. The festival is much better organized and now geared both towards ticos and visitors alike. Originally, it was 100% for ticos but in 2008 ticos were not coming to Jaco like they are today. The new highway from Ciudad Colon to Caldera has allowed the trip time to be reduced by almost half given good conditions. This is both a blessing and a curse for Jaco Costa Rica but that is for another posting, suffice to say that many nationals would not make the trip to Jaco if it was not as easy as it is now. 
So much has been in the news about violence in Mexico tourist towns that there is a heightened awareness of Jaco Beach crime and violence taking place in all tourist locations. As with all advertising driven news organizations, wherever there is drama to reveal that can drum up Neilsen ratings a story will be told. It does not matter if the story is out of context or pigeonholing Jaco is the result. With all of the emails asking about the safety here in Jaco and what the murders in recent weeks have been about, we will try at least to lay it out what is known around town and not in the new media.