[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":716},["ShallowReactive",2],{"catalog":3,"landing-longevity-retreats-in-costa-rica":425},{"destinations":4,"resorts":125,"concerns":234,"concernGroups":310,"landings":323,"markets":348,"modalities":388,"totals":418},[5,19,28,37,45,54,64,71,77,85,91,97,104,110,118],{"slug":6,"name":7,"country":8,"cluster":9,"modalities":10,"resortCount":13,"programmeCount":14,"fromPrice":15,"gatewayCode":18},"kerala","Kerala","India","asia",[11,12],"ayurveda","yoga",8,4,{"amount":16,"currency":17},1890,"EUR","COK",{"slug":20,"name":21,"country":8,"cluster":9,"modalities":22,"resortCount":13,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":24,"gatewayCode":27},"rishikesh","Rishikesh",[12,11],3,{"amount":25,"currency":26},287000,"INR","DED",{"slug":29,"name":30,"country":31,"cluster":9,"modalities":32,"resortCount":33,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":34,"gatewayCode":36},"sri-lanka-coast","The Ayurveda coast","Sri Lanka",[11,12],2,{"amount":35,"currency":17},3727.5,"CMB",{"slug":38,"name":39,"country":39,"cluster":9,"modalities":40,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":44},"bhutan","Bhutan",[41],"sowa-rigpa",1,0,"PBH",{"slug":46,"name":47,"country":48,"cluster":9,"modalities":49,"resortCount":33,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":50,"gatewayCode":53},"ubud","Ubud","Indonesia",[12],{"amount":51,"currency":52},19752768,"IDR","DPS",{"slug":55,"name":56,"country":57,"cluster":9,"modalities":58,"resortCount":33,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":60,"gatewayCode":63},"koh-samui","Koh Samui","Thailand",[59],"thai-lanna",{"amount":61,"currency":62},100810,"THB","USM",{"slug":65,"name":66,"country":67,"cluster":9,"modalities":68,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":70},"beppu","Beppu","Japan",[69],"onsen","OIT",{"slug":72,"name":73,"country":67,"cluster":9,"modalities":74,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":76},"okinawa","Okinawa",[75,69],"longevity","OKA",{"slug":78,"name":79,"country":80,"cluster":81,"modalities":82,"resortCount":33,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":84},"baden-baden","Baden-Baden","Germany","europe",[83],"balneotherapy","FKB",{"slug":86,"name":87,"country":88,"cluster":81,"modalities":89,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":90},"karlovy-vary","Karlovy Vary","Czechia",[83],"PRG",{"slug":92,"name":93,"country":94,"cluster":81,"modalities":95,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":96},"bad-gastein","Bad Gastein","Austria",[83],"SZG",{"slug":98,"name":99,"country":100,"cluster":81,"modalities":101,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":103},"quiberon","Quiberon","France",[102],"thalassotherapy","LRT",{"slug":105,"name":106,"country":107,"cluster":81,"modalities":108,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":109},"montreux","Montreux","Switzerland",[75],"GVA",{"slug":111,"name":112,"country":94,"cluster":81,"modalities":113,"resortCount":33,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":115,"gatewayCode":117},"tyrol","Tyrol",[114,83],"mayr",{"amount":116,"currency":17},4909,"INN",{"slug":119,"name":120,"country":121,"cluster":122,"modalities":123,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43,"gatewayCode":124},"nicoya","The Nicoya peninsula","Costa Rica","americas",[75,12],"LIR",[126,130,133,137,140,143,146,149,152,155,158,161,164,167,170,173,177,180,184,187,191,194,197,200,203,206,209,212,215,218,221,225,228,231],{"slug":127,"name":128,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":129},"somatheeram","Somatheeram Ayurveda Village","ayurveda-hospital",{"slug":131,"name":132,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":129},"kalari-kovilakom","Kalari Kovilakom",{"slug":134,"name":135,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":136},"carnoustie","Carnoustie Ayurveda & Wellness Resort","retreat",{"slug":138,"name":139,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":136},"ananda-himalayas","Ananda in the Himalayas",{"slug":141,"name":142,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":136},"six-senses-vana","Six Senses Vana",{"slug":144,"name":145,"destinationSlug":29,"destinationName":30,"country":31,"character":129},"barberyn-reef","Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort",{"slug":147,"name":148,"destinationSlug":29,"destinationName":30,"country":31,"character":136},"santani","Santani Wellness Kandy",{"slug":150,"name":151,"destinationSlug":38,"destinationName":39,"country":39,"character":136},"amankora","Amankora",{"slug":153,"name":154,"destinationSlug":46,"destinationName":47,"country":48,"character":136},"como-shambhala-estate","COMO Shambhala Estate",{"slug":156,"name":157,"destinationSlug":46,"destinationName":47,"country":48,"character":136},"fivelements-bali","Fivelements Retreat Bali",{"slug":159,"name":160,"destinationSlug":55,"destinationName":56,"country":57,"character":136},"kamalaya","Kamalaya",{"slug":162,"name":163,"destinationSlug":55,"destinationName":56,"country":57,"character":136},"absolute-sanctuary","Absolute Sanctuary",{"slug":165,"name":166,"destinationSlug":65,"destinationName":66,"country":67,"character":136},"suginoi","Suginoi Hotel",{"slug":168,"name":169,"destinationSlug":72,"destinationName":73,"country":67,"character":136},"hoshinoya-okinawa","HOSHINOYA Okinawa",{"slug":171,"name":172,"destinationSlug":78,"destinationName":79,"country":80,"character":136},"villa-stephanie","Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa",{"slug":174,"name":175,"destinationSlug":78,"destinationName":79,"country":80,"character":176},"friedrichsbad","Friedrichsbad","thermal-cure",{"slug":178,"name":179,"destinationSlug":86,"destinationName":87,"country":88,"character":136},"grandhotel-pupp","Grandhotel Pupp",{"slug":181,"name":182,"destinationSlug":92,"destinationName":93,"country":94,"character":183},"gasteiner-heilstollen","Gasteiner Heilstollen","medical-clinic",{"slug":185,"name":186,"destinationSlug":98,"destinationName":99,"country":100,"character":136},"thalassa-quiberon","Sofitel Quiberon Thalassa Sea & Spa",{"slug":188,"name":189,"destinationSlug":105,"destinationName":106,"country":107,"character":190},"clinique-la-prairie","Clinique La Prairie","longevity-clinic",{"slug":192,"name":193,"destinationSlug":111,"destinationName":112,"country":94,"character":183},"lanserhof-lans","Lanserhof Lans",{"slug":195,"name":196,"destinationSlug":111,"destinationName":112,"country":94,"character":183},"park-igls","Park Igls",{"slug":198,"name":199,"destinationSlug":119,"destinationName":120,"country":121,"character":136},"harmony-nosara","Harmony Hotel",{"slug":201,"name":202,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":136},"akanta","Akanta Ayurveda & Yoga Cherai",{"slug":204,"name":205,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":129},"kairali-healing-village","Kairali – The Ayurvedic Healing Village",{"slug":207,"name":208,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":129},"back-to-roots-ayurveda","Back to Roots Ayurveda",{"slug":210,"name":211,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":136},"chamundi-hill-palace","Chamundi Hill Palace Ayurveda Treatment Centre",{"slug":213,"name":214,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":136},"modi-yoga-retreat","Modi Yoga Retreat",{"slug":216,"name":217,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":136},"nirvana-yoga-school","Nirvana Yoga School",{"slug":219,"name":220,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8,"character":136},"mekosha","Mekosha Ayurveda Spasuites Retreat",{"slug":222,"name":223,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":224},"rishikesh-yogpeeth","Rishikesh Yogpeeth","ashram",{"slug":226,"name":227,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":136},"naturoville","Naturoville Wellness",{"slug":229,"name":230,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":136},"rudraksh-retreat","The Rudraksh Retreat",{"slug":232,"name":233,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8,"character":136},"veda5-rishikesh","Veda5 Ayurveda & Yoga Retreat",[235,241,246,253,259,264,269,274,279,284,289,293,298,302,306],{"slug":236,"name":237,"group":238,"said":239,"programmeCount":14,"fromPrice":240},"sleep","Sleep","mind","I fall asleep fine and then I am awake at three.",{"amount":35,"currency":17},{"slug":242,"name":243,"group":238,"said":244,"programmeCount":42,"fromPrice":245},"burnout","Burnout & exhaustion","I am not depressed. I am just completely empty.",{"amount":35,"currency":17},{"slug":247,"name":248,"group":238,"said":249,"programmeCount":250,"fromPrice":251},"stress-and-anxiety","Stress & anxiety","My shoulders are somewhere near my ears and they have been for a year.",5,{"amount":252,"currency":17},2415,{"slug":254,"name":255,"group":256,"said":257,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":258},"digestion","Digestion & the gut","body","Something has been wrong with my stomach for years and nobody can tell me what.",{"amount":35,"currency":17},{"slug":260,"name":261,"group":256,"said":262,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":263},"weight","Weight & metabolic health","I have lost the same eight kilos four times.",{"amount":61,"currency":62},{"slug":265,"name":266,"group":256,"said":267,"programmeCount":42,"fromPrice":268},"back-and-joints","Back, neck & joints","My lower back has been a background noise for a decade.",{"amount":35,"currency":17},{"slug":270,"name":271,"group":272,"said":273,"programmeCount":43},"chronic-pain","Chronic & rheumatic pain","medical","I have a diagnosis. I am looking for something that is not another drug.",{"slug":275,"name":276,"group":256,"said":277,"programmeCount":14,"fromPrice":278},"detox","Detox & the annual reset","I want to properly clean myself out once a year.",{"amount":16,"currency":17},{"slug":280,"name":281,"group":282,"said":283,"programmeCount":43},"menopause","Menopause & perimenopause","life-stage","I am not sleeping, I am not myself, and I am tired of being told it is normal.",{"slug":285,"name":286,"group":282,"said":287,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":288},"fertility","Fertility & preconception","We are trying, and I want to give my body the best possible chance.",{"amount":35,"currency":17},{"slug":290,"name":291,"group":272,"said":292,"programmeCount":43},"post-viral-fatigue","After illness","I was ill six months ago and I still am not right.",{"slug":75,"name":294,"group":272,"said":295,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":296},"Longevity & prevention","I am well. I would like to stay that way, and I would like some data.",{"amount":297,"currency":17},6193,{"slug":299,"name":300,"group":282,"said":301,"programmeCount":43},"first-retreat","A first retreat","I have never done anything like this and I do not want to get it wrong.",{"slug":303,"name":304,"group":282,"said":305,"programmeCount":43},"travelling-alone","Travelling alone","I am going by myself and I do not want to eat dinner alone for two weeks.",{"slug":307,"name":308,"group":282,"said":309,"programmeCount":43},"together","Going together","I want to do the programme. My partner wants a holiday.",[311,314,317,320],{"key":238,"title":312,"note":313},"Rest & balance","Journeys shaped around sleep, stress, burnout and time to reset.",{"key":256,"title":315,"note":316},"Body & vitality","Programmes focused on digestion, movement, weight and physical renewal.",{"key":272,"title":318,"note":319},"Additional care considerations","Travel information to discuss with your own doctor and the qualified team at the property.",{"key":282,"title":321,"note":322},"Life stages & travel style","Menopause, preconception, a first retreat, travelling alone or together.",[324,327,330,333,336,339,342,345],{"slug":325,"h1":326},"ayurveda-retreats-in-indonesia","Ayurveda retreats in Indonesia",{"slug":328,"h1":329},"ayurveda-retreats-in-thailand","Ayurveda retreats in Thailand",{"slug":331,"h1":332},"balneotherapy-retreats-in-austria","The thermal kur retreats in Austria",{"slug":334,"h1":335},"balneotherapy-retreats-in-czechia","The thermal kur retreats in Czechia",{"slug":337,"h1":338},"balneotherapy-retreats-in-germany","The thermal kur retreats in Germany",{"slug":340,"h1":341},"longevity-retreats-in-austria","Longevity retreats in Austria",{"slug":343,"h1":344},"longevity-retreats-in-germany","Longevity retreats in Germany",{"slug":346,"h1":347},"longevity-retreats-in-japan","Longevity retreats in Japan",[349,352,355,357,359,362,364,367,370,373,376,379,382,385],{"slug":350,"shortName":351},"united-kingdom","United Kingdom",{"slug":353,"shortName":354},"ireland","Ireland",{"slug":356,"shortName":80},"germany",{"slug":358,"shortName":100},"france",{"slug":360,"shortName":361},"spain","Spain",{"slug":363,"shortName":107},"switzerland",{"slug":365,"shortName":366},"netherlands","Netherlands",{"slug":368,"shortName":369},"united-states","United States",{"slug":371,"shortName":372},"canada","Canada",{"slug":374,"shortName":375},"mexico","Mexico",{"slug":377,"shortName":378},"brazil","Brazil",{"slug":380,"shortName":381},"argentina","Argentina",{"slug":383,"shortName":384},"chile","Chile",{"slug":386,"shortName":387},"colombia","Colombia",[389,393,397,400,403,406,409,412,415],{"slug":11,"name":390,"tagline":391,"regulated":392,"count":23},"Ayurveda","India’s licensed system of medicine, practised as medicine",true,{"slug":12,"name":394,"tagline":395,"regulated":396,"count":250},"Yoga","A lineage, a teacher, and enough consecutive days to matter",false,{"slug":83,"name":398,"tagline":399,"regulated":392,"count":14},"The thermal kur","Europe’s prescribed cure, still paid for by health insurers",{"slug":69,"name":401,"tagline":402,"regulated":392,"count":33},"Onsen","Japanese hot-spring bathing, defined by law",{"slug":102,"name":404,"tagline":405,"regulated":392,"count":42},"Thalassotherapy","Heated seawater, under medical supervision, since 1899",{"slug":59,"name":407,"tagline":408,"regulated":392,"count":42},"Traditional Thai medicine","A licensed profession, not the massage on the high street",{"slug":41,"name":410,"tagline":411,"regulated":392,"count":42},"Sowa Rigpa","Himalayan medicine, delivered by the state in Bhutan",{"slug":75,"name":413,"tagline":414,"regulated":392,"count":23},"Longevity","Two very different answers to the same question",{"slug":114,"name":416,"tagline":417,"regulated":392,"count":42},"The Mayr cure","A medically supervised digestive rest, invented in Austria",{"destinations":419,"countries":420,"resorts":421,"programmes":419,"concerns":419,"modalities":422,"excursions":423,"extensions":424},15,12,34,9,76,45,{"landing":426,"resorts":434,"programmes":508,"destinations":509,"concern":641,"modality":669,"destination":669,"related":670},{"slug":427,"kind":428,"h1":429,"title":430,"description":431,"placeName":121,"countrySlug":432,"country":121,"concernSlug":75,"resortSlugs":433},"longevity-retreats-in-costa-rica","concern-country","Longevity retreats in Costa Rica","Longevity Retreats in Costa Rica — Travel Guide","Wellness properties in Costa Rica with programmes related to longevity, including stay length, travel season and key considerations.","costa-rica",[198],[435],{"slug":198,"name":199,"destinationSlug":119,"area":436,"country":121,"modalities":437,"character":136,"knownFor":438,"why":439,"signature":445,"typicalNights":446,"accolades":447,"honest":450,"relationship":451,"confidence":452,"image":453,"imageAlt":454,"website":455,"greatFor":456,"whoShouldGo":461,"team":462,"roomTypes":463,"facilities":479,"dining":490,"activities":497,"arrival":505,"destinationName":120,"programmeCount":43},"Playa Guiones, Nosara, Costa Rica",[12],"A beach hotel at Playa Guiones that says it opened in 2005. Its Healing Centre offers yoga, bodywork, acupuncture, breathwork and a sauna with cold plunge pools, and the hotel says each guest gets one free yoga class a day.",[440,441,442,443,444],"The hotel says its owners bought a bungalow-style surf hotel built in the mid-1990s and relaunched it as Harmony in 2005. Its FAQ says a sandy path from the back gate runs through coastal forest to Playa Guiones in about two minutes.","The yoga studio publishes a weekly schedule, with two to four sessions a day on the September timetable. Regular classes cost $20 ($15 for nationals and residents), and Staying With Us gives each hotel guest one free class a day.","The Healing Centre publishes a priced menu of massage, facials, acupuncture, Zen Shiatsu, craniosacral therapy, Reiki with massage, and one-to-one breathwork and integrative guidance. It says it does not think of itself as a spa.","The hotel says its food is grown by Costa Rican farmers, that the menu follows the season and the daily catch, and that it has zero-waste goals. The FAQ lists vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.","Harmony Projects, which runs the hotel, says it became B Corp certified in May 2023 across its hospitality, food and retail businesses. The hotel says it replaced the old hotel’s gardens and lawns with native plant species.","The Healing Centre: a weekly yoga and breathwork schedule with one free class a day for guests, a priced bodywork and acupuncture menu, and a sauna with two cold plunges.","No minimum or typical stay published",[448,449],"Harmony Projects, which runs the hotel, says it became B Corp certified in May 2023 (on a page signed June 2023)","The hotel’s recording studio page says its on-site studio was named on Mix Magazine’s Class of 2025 list","Ask us whether sauna and cold-pool access is included; the sauna page charges $40 per person for 60 minutes. In high season, a cancellation or change within 60 days of arrival is charged in full. The hotel welcomes families and says it \"can get a little boisterous at times, especially around school holidays\".","bookable","medium","photo-1545205597-3d9d02c29597","A group practising together on a Pacific beach at sunset","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.harmonynosara.com",[457,458,459,460],"A beach stay with daily yoga","Bodywork and acupuncture","Sauna and cold-plunge practice","Families","Someone who wants a beach hotel with a yoga studio, a treatment menu and a sauna with cold plunge pools, and who is not looking for medical care. The hotel says its rooms have no TVs and that it welcomes families.","Teachers of yoga, meditation, aerial yoga and breathwork, plus massage and facial therapists and practitioners of acupuncture, Zen Shiatsu, craniosacral therapy, Reiki and yoga therapy. An integrative-wellbeing practitioner offers paid nutrition and lifestyle sessions.",[464,467,470,473,476],{"name":465,"note":466},"Cocos","For two adults (a crib can be added), with a private deck and outdoor shower; closest to the front desk, pool and other amenities.",{"name":468,"note":469},"Bungalows","Up to two adults and two small children, with a private deck or patio and outdoor shower; further from the common areas.",{"name":471,"note":472},"Palma Bungalows","Up to four guests (one bedroom plus a study), with a private plunge pool, outdoor patio, equipped kitchenette and large work desk.",{"name":474,"note":475},"Suite","Two bedrooms, with a large terrace and outdoor shower.",{"name":477,"note":478},"Villas","Two stand-alone villas, each with three bedrooms, three en-suite bathrooms, a large kitchen and dining room, private outdoor space and a private entrance; Villa 1 has its own pool.",[480,481,482,483,484,485,486,487,488,489],"Yoga studio and meditation shala with no walls or mirrors, next to a freshwater pond","Healing Centre, open daily 7am–6pm, with treatment rooms next to the gardens","Dry sauna and two cold plunge pools","Saltwater swimming pool and lounge area","Surfboards and bikes for guests","La Tiendita, a small shop selling books, crafts, art and artefacts","On-site recording studio in a renovated bungalow, rented by the day","Rooms with no TVs, a lockbox and high-speed internet","Basic wash-and-fold laundry service","Water treated on the property by UV purification, according to the FAQ",[491,494],{"name":492,"note":493},"Restaurant","The menu follows the season and the daily catch, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options, the hotel says. Breakfast 6:30am–10am, lunch 12pm–3pm, dinner 6pm–9pm; the bar is open 11am–10pm.",{"name":495,"note":496},"Juice Bar","Salads, sandwiches on the hotel’s own multigrain bread, and juices from local fruit and vegetables; open 7am–5pm.",[498,499,500,501,502,503,504],"Yoga, meditation, aerial and breathwork classes, two to four a day on the published schedule","Private yoga lessons and one-to-one yoga therapy","Self-guided or guided sauna and cold-plunge sessions, booked in advance","Use of the hotel’s surfboards and bikes","Olive Ridley turtle nesting at Playa Ostional, June to December, the hotel says","Tours arranged by the hotel, some depending on weather and tides","Children’s programmes at Nosara Day Camp, a separate operator named in the FAQ",{"airport":506,"code":124,"transfer":507},"Liberia (LIR) or Nosara airstrip (NOB)","About 2.5 hours by road from Liberia, the hotel says. Sansa flies to the Nosara airstrip in about 20 minutes; staff meet guests.",[],[510],{"slug":119,"name":120,"place":511,"country":121,"countryCode":512,"cluster":122,"fame":42,"modalities":513,"hook":514,"caseFor":515,"hardFacts":520,"caveat":526,"season":527,"seasonNote":528,"practical":529,"figures":542,"faqs":555,"image":562,"imageAlt":563,"gallery":564,"coords":575,"gateway":578,"tempC":596,"climateNote":601,"leisure":602,"extensions":628,"resortCount":42,"programmeCount":43},"Guanacaste — the inland cantons and the Nosara coast","CR",[75,12],"The Blue Zone with real published demography behind it — and the one whose discoverer published its disappearance in 2023.",[516,517,518,519],"Unlike most of this category, the claim rests on peer-reviewed work. The Costa Rican demographer Luis Rosero-Bixby followed roughly 16,300 older Costa Ricans and found a death-rate ratio of about 0.80 for Nicoyan men, independent of socioeconomic status.","The zone is defined administratively rather than vaguely: five cantons in Guanacaste — Nicoya, Santa Cruz, Hojancha, Nandayure and Carrillo.","There is even a biological marker in the literature: Rehkopf and Rosero-Bixby reported roughly 81 additional telomere base pairs in the immune cells of Nicoyans compared with other Costa Ricans.","The coast supports the other half of a trip. Nosara has a twenty-year Ashtanga teaching community, so a week inland and a fortnight practising is a coherent itinerary rather than two holidays stapled together.",[521,522,523,524,525],"The Blue Zone is five cantons in Guanacaste: Nicoya, Santa Cruz, Hojancha, Nandayure and Carrillo.","Rosero-Bixby’s follow-up of ~16,300 elderly Costa Ricans found a death-rate ratio of ~0.80 for Nicoyan men.","Rehkopf and Rosero-Bixby (2013) reported ~81 additional telomere base pairs in Nicoyans’ immune cells.","Rosero-Bixby’s 2023 paper in Demographic Research (vol. 49, art. 27) reports the advantage vanishing across cohorts — men born in 1905 showed roughly a third lower mortality; later cohorts do not.","Guanacaste runs a hard dry season from December to April with near-zero rainfall.","This is where the gap between the science and the sales pitch is widest. The longevity advantage is cohort-bound and historical — the demographer who discovered it published its disappearance in 2023 — and an Ig Nobel-winning line of criticism argues that a large share of Blue Zone data reflects poor record-keeping. Almost everything sold as \"Blue Zone Costa Rica\" is also a beach resort forty kilometres from the actual communities. The inland villages have very little tourism infrastructure, by design.",[33,33,33,33,42,42,42,42,43,43,42,33],"December to April is the reliable window: Guanacaste is the driest province in Costa Rica and the dry season is close to absolute, which matters for the inland roads more than for the beaches. September and October are the wettest months nationally and access to the villages becomes a genuine problem.",[530,533,536,539],{"label":531,"value":532},"Getting there","Liberia (LIR) is much closer than San José — two to three hours by road rather than five. Domestic flights to Nosara run daily in season.",{"label":534,"value":535},"Vehicle","Four-wheel drive for the inland cantons, non-negotiable in the green season. Transfers are included in our programmes.",{"label":537,"value":538},"Language","Spanish inland, with very little English. Our village hosts are bilingual; almost nobody else is.",{"label":540,"value":541},"Health","Dengue is present. Take repellent seriously, particularly in the green season.",[543,546,549,552],{"value":544,"label":545},"5","Cantons in the zone",{"value":547,"label":548},"16,300","In the cohort study",{"value":550,"label":551},"2023","The advantage vanishes",{"value":553,"label":554},"Dec–Apr","Dry season",[556,559],{"q":557,"a":558},"If the advantage has vanished, why go?","Because the habits that produced it are still visible and still practised by the generation that has them — physical work outdoors into old age, a maize-beans-squash diet, family within walking distance, an early night. Going will not extend your life. Watching people live that way for a week sometimes changes what you do at home, which is a smaller and more defensible claim.",{"q":560,"a":561},"Is the water really the reason?","It is one hypothesis among several and it is not settled. The calcium and magnesium content is genuinely unusual and has been measured; whether it explains the longevity is a much bigger claim than the data supports. Anyone selling you Nicoyan water has gone well past the evidence.","photo-1476231682828-37e571bc172f","Tropical forest canopy on the Nicoya peninsula",[565,568,570,572],{"src":566,"alt":567},"photo-1441974231531-c6227db76b6e","Sunlight through the forest",{"src":453,"alt":569},"A group practising outdoors",{"src":562,"alt":571},"The forest canopy from above",{"src":573,"alt":574},"photo-1470071459604-3b5ec3a7fe05","Green hills above the coast",{"lat":576,"lng":577},10.15,-85.45,{"airport":579,"code":124,"city":580,"routings":581,"transfer":594,"flightNote":595},"Daniel Oduber Quirós, Liberia","Liberia — two to three hours from the Nosara and Santa Teresa coast, and far closer than San José",[582,586,590],{"from":583,"how":584,"time":585},"North America","Direct to Liberia from a dozen US cities and Toronto — this is the point of the airport.","3–5 hours",{"from":587,"how":588,"time":589},"London & western Europe","One stop through a US hub, Panama City or Madrid into San José, then a domestic hop or a five-hour drive.","15–18 hours door to door",{"from":591,"how":592,"time":593},"The Gulf & India","Two stops, almost always through Europe or the US east coast.","24–28 hours","Two to three hours by road from Liberia — the last thirty minutes is unpaved and slow, and a 4×4 is not a luxury in the green season. Domestic flights to Nosara run daily in season and turn three hours into thirty minutes.","Fly into Liberia, not San José. It is the single most useful piece of advice about this destination: San José adds five hours of driving each way for no gain. If the fare difference is large we will price the domestic connection from San José against it and show you both.",[597,421,598,598,597,599,599,599,600,600,599,599],33,35,32,31,"Hot and dry from December to April, hot and green from May to November with afternoon rain rather than all-day rain. September and October are the wettest and the emptiest.",[603,609,614,619,623],{"name":604,"kind":605,"duration":606,"note":607,"when":608},"Ostional and the arribada","nature","Half day, at night","Olive ridley turtles nest in mass arrivals here, usually on a dark moon between July and December. Numbers are unpredictable and no guide can promise them — go on the chance rather than the booking.","any",{"name":610,"kind":611,"duration":612,"note":613,"when":608},"Surfing at Playa Guiones","active","2 hours","A long forgiving beach break that works almost every day and is the reason Nosara exists. Genuinely good for a first lesson at any age.",{"name":615,"kind":605,"duration":616,"note":617,"when":618},"The Nosara Biological Reserve","Half day","Mangrove and estuary walk at dawn — howler monkeys, crocodiles and roughly two hundred bird species inside a small area.","rest-day",{"name":620,"kind":621,"duration":616,"note":622,"when":608},"A finca lunch in the hills","food","Inland from the coast, where the Blue Zone diet is actually eaten: beans, maize, squash and the traditional nixtamal corn. Far more convincing than any longevity brochure.",{"name":624,"kind":611,"duration":625,"note":626,"when":627},"Rincón de la Vieja","Full day","An active volcano with fumaroles, mud pots and waterfalls, on the way back to Liberia. Best combined with the return leg rather than done as a day trip.","after",[629,633,637],{"name":630,"nights":631,"note":632,"side":627},"Monteverde cloud forest","2 nights","Three hours inland and 1,400 m up into permanent mist. Quetzals, hanging bridges and a twelve-degree temperature drop.",{"name":634,"nights":635,"note":636,"side":627},"Arenal & the hot springs","3 nights","The volcano, the lake and the thermal rivers — the natural bridge between a Pacific coast stay and San José.",{"name":638,"nights":639,"note":640,"side":627},"Manuel Antonio & the Osa","4 nights","South along the Pacific to the biologically densest place in the country.",{"slug":75,"name":294,"group":272,"said":295,"lede":642,"body":643,"whatHelps":647,"expect":654,"nights":660,"caution":661,"programmeSlugs":662,"resortSlugs":665,"image":666,"imageAlt":667,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":668},"The fastest-growing category in this market, and the one with the widest gap between the good and the ridiculous.",[644,645,646],"At the serious end this is preventive medicine with a hotel attached: several days of genuine diagnostics — bloods, imaging, body composition, cardiovascular and metabolic assessment — read by physicians, followed by a programme built on the results and a protocol for the years afterwards. That is a real product and it is priced accordingly.","At the other end it is a supplement drip and a cryotherapy chamber, sold on the word itself. The test is simple and worth applying: does the programme measure you before it prescribes, and does it measure you again at the end? If not, it is a spa.","The other honest route into this is not a clinic at all. The places where people demonstrably live longest — Okinawa, Nicoya — are not selling anything, and going to look at how they actually eat and move is a cheaper and more durable education than most protocols.",[648,650,652],{"modalitySlug":75,"why":649},"Full diagnostic work-up read by physicians, with the programme written from the results rather than chosen from a brochure. The distinction between this and a spa is the laboratory.",{"modalitySlug":114,"why":651},"The metabolic and digestive half of the same argument, at a fraction of the price, with laboratory work at both ends.",{"modalitySlug":11,"why":653},"Rasayana is a preventive tradition rather than a curative one and has been for two thousand years. Taken annually, which is how its own culture uses it.",[655,656,657,658,659],"Several days of diagnostics before anything is prescribed.","Numbers at the start and numbers at the end, with a physician who explains both.","A protocol for the year, and the assumption you will come back.","A great deal of unglamorous advice about sleep, muscle mass and alcohol, which is where the evidence actually is.","No promises about lifespan, from anybody serious.","Seven to fourteen nights at a clinic — the diagnostics alone take several days. For the Blue Zone route, ten nights and a hire car.","Extensive screening in well people is not an unqualified good: it produces incidental findings, false positives and downstream investigations that carry their own risks, and reasonable doctors disagree about how much of it is worthwhile. Ask what happens to an abnormal result and who follows it up. Be sceptical of anything infused, injected or sold in a bottle at the end — the evidence for most of it is thin, and the evidence for sleep, strength training and not drinking is not.",[663,664],"park-igls-detox-medical-check","ananda-himalayas-ayurvedic-rejuvenation",[188,192,168,198],"photo-1501785888041-af3ef285b470","An alpine lake with a small boat",{"amount":297,"currency":17},null,[671,679,686,693,701,709],{"slug":672,"kind":673,"h1":674,"title":675,"description":676,"placeName":677,"countrySlug":432,"country":121,"destinationSlug":119,"concernSlug":75,"resortSlugs":678},"longevity-retreats-in-nicoya","concern-destination","Longevity retreats in The Nicoya peninsula","Longevity Retreats in The Nicoya peninsula — The Shortlist","Compare properties in The Nicoya peninsula with programmes related to longevity, including the travel season and suggested stay length.","The Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica",[198],{"slug":680,"kind":428,"h1":681,"title":682,"description":683,"placeName":8,"countrySlug":684,"country":8,"concernSlug":75,"resortSlugs":685},"longevity-retreats-in-india","Longevity retreats in India","Longevity Retreats in India — Travel Guide","Wellness properties in India with programmes related to longevity, including stay length, travel season and key considerations.","india",[138],{"slug":687,"kind":673,"h1":688,"title":689,"description":690,"placeName":691,"countrySlug":363,"country":107,"destinationSlug":105,"concernSlug":75,"resortSlugs":692},"longevity-retreats-in-montreux","Longevity retreats in Montreux","Longevity Retreats in Montreux — The Shortlist","Compare properties in Montreux with programmes related to longevity, including the travel season and suggested stay length.","Montreux, Switzerland",[188],{"slug":694,"kind":673,"h1":695,"title":696,"description":697,"placeName":698,"countrySlug":699,"country":67,"destinationSlug":72,"concernSlug":75,"resortSlugs":700},"longevity-retreats-in-okinawa","Longevity retreats in Okinawa","Longevity Retreats in Okinawa — The Shortlist","Compare properties in Okinawa with programmes related to longevity, including the travel season and suggested stay length.","Okinawa, Japan","japan",[168],{"slug":702,"kind":673,"h1":703,"title":704,"description":705,"placeName":706,"countrySlug":707,"country":94,"destinationSlug":111,"concernSlug":75,"resortSlugs":708},"longevity-retreats-in-tyrol","Longevity retreats in Tyrol","Longevity Retreats in Tyrol — The Shortlist","Compare properties in Tyrol with programmes related to longevity, including the travel season and suggested stay length.","Tyrol, Austria","austria",[192,195],{"slug":710,"kind":711,"h1":712,"title":713,"description":714,"placeName":121,"countrySlug":432,"country":121,"modalitySlug":12,"resortSlugs":715},"yoga-retreats-in-costa-rica","modality-country","Yoga retreats in Costa Rica","Yoga Retreats in Costa Rica — Travel Guide","Explore yoga in Costa Rica, the properties offering it and the practical details to consider when planning a stay.",[198],1789312815666]