Nature Air issued an article recently about how they were becoming the first airline to become carbon neutral.  Immediately you wonder how an airline- one that uses fuel- could do such a thing, but through their concerted effort at increasing fuel efficiency in their fleet, as well as their participation in a number of carbon offsetting initiatives, Nature Air has done what I thought was impossible!  Our hats are off to Nature Air- what an amazing achievement! if you want to learn how they calculate this number you can check it out here

Also we have more information on Flights and Nature air in out Costa Rica Flights section, with more about the carbon neutral initiative.

It is confirmed, the Billabong 2009 World Surfing Games are going to be in Costa Rica. That is what the ISA (International Surf Association) confirm.

The dates will be July 31st to August 9th 2009. Those dates have a reason to be, and it is because it’s the best time of the year for surfing ,and the tides will give the opportunity to have more then one surf session by day.The location will be in Playa Hermosa from Jaco Beach, In front of Terrazas del Pacifico Hotel, which have the best spot for surfing in Hermosa Beach.

With these championship Costa Rica shows that have a world surfing class because it was chosen against Countries like Brazil and other from South America with a huge surfing level.

We  will have  an incredible amount of world class surfers coming from 40 different countries just to ride our beautiful waves.

The Opening for the championship will start with a parade with all the  nations participating, It will be in the principal avenue of Jaco Beach. After that we will start the “Sands of the world”, act which every country bring sand from all over the world. And then just enjoy the beautiful surfing!!!

At the end we will close the streets off jaco and have a huge party with live music and DJ’s from all over the world.

So If you are a surfer, don’t miss this incredible oportunity and come down to Costa Rica for the 2009 World Surf Games!