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The Ultimate Spa: Relaxing at Tabacon Hot Springs in Costa Rica
Blog: Travelogged - 6 November 2009
As the weather gets colder in New York, I try to warm myself up by thinking of the hottest places that I've been to this year.
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More Monkey Business: Howler Monkeys in Costa Rica
Blog: Travelogged - 3 November 2009
Last week when I was blogging about seeing the Mona Monkey in Grenada, I realized that while I have written and posted photos about the white-faced capuchin monkeys and the spider monkeys I saw in Costa Rica, I have left...
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Costa Rica, a carbon-neutral destination and Loco Natural
Blog: the reX-Files.ca - 1 November 2009
Costa Rica, a carbon-neutral destination – The Globe and Mail. The nation throws down a green gauntlet Seeing this article reminded me of our time in Costa Rica and I thought, why not send an email to our friends Pamela and Carter at Loco Natural see what they have been up to…. …and they have been busy. When we [...]
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A Tico Welcome
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 5 October 2009
By Karl Baumgarten, KF9 Costa Rica After a rainy welcome to San Isidro del General yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised by sunshine and smiles for my first day at FUDECOSUR, an MFI working in the impoverished districts of Southern Costa Rica. With my Spanish struggling but my effort appreciated, the staff welcomed the new face around the [...]
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Vacation calories do count, but you can survive!
Blog: another pin on the map - 26 September 2009
You can survive your vacation without gaining weight, and still have fun doing it.
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Villas Tranquilas: A Vacation Property Gives Back
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 22 September 2009
While the global economic downturn may be affecting private aid in terms of total dollars, some travel/tourism businesses continue to offer partnerships with their clients and the indigenous peoples to the benefit of all. Villas Tranquilas, a Costa Rica Vacation Rental Property is one such company that offers adventure travelers several opportunities to practice these new brands of tourism.
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Interview – An American Expat In Costa Rica
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 September 2009
Astrid, Casey (middle) and me in Medellin I met Casey during my last week in Colombia. More than a decade earlier, he had left the United States to start his own business in Central America, which surprised me considering how he seemed about my age! In the interview below, he talks about his move to Costa [...]Your Free Subscriber Download
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Finally, on the move
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 26 August 2009
We’ve left. It’s true. We spent two beautiful days in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua before saying goodbye to the country until the next time. It was a great country that treated us amazingly well. Really, I don’t think we could have asked for more from it. Two visitors, a small job, becoming more familiar [...]
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Costa Rica, Part 4
Blog: Curves and Levels - 7 August 2009
All worth it, of course, to experience the famous cloud forests - hiking the mist-shrouded tropical hillside was a highlight of our trip.
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The rumbles of Volcan Arenal
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 4 August 2009
The Volcan Arenal is a relatively young volcano and the most active in Costa Rica. This conically-shaped volcano rises steeply to a height of 1,657 meters and is one of the most lethal-looking volcanos I’ve ever seen. Smoke continously billows from the crater and you can often hear (and feel) the mountain rumble and see rocks [...]
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Heartbreak in Costa Rica
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 17 July 2009
The roads all over Costa Rica are painted with these yellow haloed hearts. Sadly they represent pedestrian road fatalities, and are depressingly common in villages.
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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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The Power of Education and Collaboration
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 20 June 2009
As I described in a previous blog post, EDESA (Kiva’s field partner in Costa Rica) works with a network of Community Credit Enterprises (ECCs by their Spanish acronym). To reiterate a bit, the ECCs are small, grassroots microfinance organizations formed by rural community members. FINCA Costa Rica provides extensive training in these communities to teach [...]
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Costa Rica, Part Three
Blog: Curves and Levels - 11 April 2009
Volcán Arenal is Costa Rica's youngest and most active volcano, erupting continuously since it "woke up" with a major explosion in 1968.
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Costa Rica
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 2 September 2008
We enjoyed our visit to Nicaragua last month so much that we were very eager for our trip to Costa Rica. August is the middle of rainy season in Costa Rica but it also means the low season for tourism which lends to less crowds and cheaper prices.
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