Latitude Blue

Tamarindo is in the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica.  This area is one of the top five areas in the world where people live the longest.  Many private and corporate studies, such as the National Geographic Magazine, have shown that a relaxed lifestyle is a major contributor to this longevity.   As these areas were studied they were identified on maps using blue circles—they called these Blue Zones.  There is a restaurant here called “Latitude Blue” which is a reference to this relaxed attitude.

 Researchers have found that a Costa Rican man at the age of 60 is twice as likely to reach 90 years of age as a man living in the United States.  This is despite the fact that Costa Rica is a developing country with minimal health care. 

 

Nicoyans enjoy an active yet low-stress lifestyle in a beautiful environment where friends and family are close and everybody, including the oldest, feel needed and loved. They also benefit from a healthy diet of natural unprocessed foods and organic produce which they grow themselves. They are wonderful examples of how good health and happiness can provide longer lives. 

The Latitude Blue restaurant attempts to reinforce this low stress environment.  This is what it looks like as you enter the Blue Latitude after sunset.

 

The restaurant is located in the heart of Tamarindo right on the beach.  The floor of the restaurant is sand.  There is no roof.  

Every night, either in the middle of the restaurant or on the beach right in front of the restaurant, there is a show put on by fire dancers.  When Gail and I were there the first lady to perform had a hula hoop that was on fire.

 

She wss followed by a guy who was a juggler.

 

Two other girls also performed a very intricate fire dance.

 

 

 

 At the end of the show, all performed at once.

It was a very unique show.  The performers are young people from all over the world.

They seem to enjoy performing and it provides them a wonderful way to travel and see the world.