From Salsa to Chamber music there are some things for everybody. Live bands play at different clubs all over the country. Salsa, Jazz, Rock, Tango, Tex-Mex, and Calypso are all on the location at different nightspots in Costa Rica. If you're staying in and around San Jose the best nightlife is found at El Pueblo in Escazu. Here you will find restaurants , clubs and shops.

Club Twister is one club that is hip playing modern and Latin music. Another is El Tobagan and while they're only open on the weekend they're always packed. Somewhere in El Pueblo the Tango Bar is found. It has got a couple of older gals that serve drinks and perform soft ballads.

If you're fortunate an Argentine visitor will be in a position to interpret the words. Often you may have the treat of seeing a good tango performed. Costa Ricans like to dance and they're so good that it is frightful. Not that much cha cha, but there's lots of cumbia, merengue, lambada, and salsa. If you get an opportunity before you go to Costa Rica attempt to get in some salsa lessons. It's the most fun you may have and it sure makes you know that you are alive. There's dancing at night in any number of clubs all over Costa Rica but the majority of the better hostels have music at night. If you talk a bit of Spanish and you're looking for local events then you can try and read the local papers the Tico Time and La Nacon. These should help you to find local flick times and data on concerts and holidays. The venues for the music change from year to year dependent on what holiday planners am considering so check the local paper or just ask around. The local Ticos will be very pleased to offer you any information they have on where the subsequent performance is. Costa Rica is mainly Catholic so almost all of their vacations follow the common Catholic vacations like Xmas and Easter but one vacation that sticks out is the party of the Black Christ Esquipulas. This holiday begins in Guatemala but is celebrated all over Costa Rica. There's big population of Guatemalan immigrants so this will have something to do with the party. The Teatro Countrywide was built over 100 years back an in that time Costa Ricans have developed there own state theater company.

In addition Costa Rica has their own Symphony and Ticos love classical music about as much as Salsa. For folks that like a different sort of nightlife there also are some nature and wildlife tours. In the Mountverde Cloud Forest there are night tours that show you the great thing about wildlife that only shows itself at night.