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Costa Rica – Home of the Tica
Blog: Backpacker Bucks - 24 February 2011
Moving along the "Gringo Trail" I take in much of this fantastic country.
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So Much for Mass Tourism
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 26 August 2010
With a nearly 2 billon dollar tourism industry and an estimated 1.9 million foreign tourists a year (2007 figures excluding domestic tourism) there is almost 1 visitor for every 2 locals in Costa Rica.
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The Nicoya Peninsula
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 3 March 2010
Mike and I have heard nothing but great things about the Nicoya Peninsula and eagerly head in that direction for our first night in Costa Rica. We’re stopped at a routine Police checkpoint and both agree the female officer is Eva Mendes‘ twin sister, complete with a pistol shoved down the front of her pants. [...]
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The Nicoya Peninsula
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 3 March 2010
Mike and I have heard nothing but great things about the Nicoya Peninsula and eagerly head in that direction for our first night in Costa Rica. We’re stopped at a routine Police checkpoint and both agree the female officer is Eva Mendes‘ twin sister, complete with a pistol shoved down the front of her pants. [...]
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Montezuma and the Dragon Lady
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 6 December 2009
The journey to Costa Rica was probably one of the toughest yet. In fact it turned out to be sixteen hours of solid travelling which involved four different buses, a taxi and a ferry. The distance between San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua and Montezuma in Costa Rica isn’t vast and a whole day is plenty, even allowing some slack for border crossings.
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Montezuma – Worth The Trek?
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 6 December 2009
Montezuma is an odd little place. It’s a tiny coastal village, with dusty streets, dirt roads and ramshackle buildings… but it’s astonishingly expensive for what it is. It’s a slow and bone-breakingly bumpy hour or two journey here from the ferry port of Paquera, and yet the place seems to filled with young travellers who [...]
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Video of the Week – Costa Rican Waterfall Jump
Blog: GoBackpacking - 4 July 2009
__________________ Back in 2005, I backpacked around Costa Rica for 18 days. In Montezuma, I hiked up to a series of 3 waterfalls. The middle one is a good 30-feet high, but I didn’t have my camera, nor was I ever able to find a decent photo of it thereafter. And then Christian from Around the World [...] Related posts:Video of the Week – Trekking in Nepal
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