Costa Rica - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Jane Koutnik and Culture Smart!

Book Overview

Costa Rica is renowned for its tropical beauty, the warmth and charm of the "Ticos"--its people's own name for themselves--and its political stability. This "Switzerland of the Americas" is widely regarded as an oasis of democracy in turbulent Central America. Since the first edition of Culture Smart Costa Rica was published in 2005, however, there have been some important changes and, with rapid economic development, some growing pains. Over the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857336658
• ISBN13: 9781857336658
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Kuperard
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 6.6"