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Photo Friday: Visiting Costa Rica with Kids
Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 11 December 2009
Costa Rica has a lot going for it as a family vacation destination. This tiny Central American country between Nicaragua and Panama is different enough to feel exotic, but safe enough that you won’t worry about bringing your kids there. Since it’s due south of Florida, you won’t have to worry too much about jetlag either. My husband and I took our kids to Costa Rica for a whirlwind week last March. It was a great trip, but we didn’t relax much.
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Cahuita’s Lunatic Fringe
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 11 December 2009
Is lunatic an un-PC word these days? Nobody has said so yet, not to me anyway, and I really feel like I have to use it regarding some of the inhabitants of Cahuita. Just to clarify, Cahuita, on the Caribbean coastline of Costa Rica and pretty close to the Panama border, is really beautiful. The beach, [...]
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Cahuita - Fright Night!
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 11 December 2009
We arrived in Cahuita on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica after another long day of travelling, but at least it was a straightforward day. The bus from Santa Elena to San Jose took only four hours, and the bus to Cahuita three and a half. Nothing really!
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Monteverde And The Million Hummingbirds
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 December 2009
Arriving into Santa Elena town, in Monteverde, was a relief, and not just because we’d been travelling all day. It was a relief because it could be called rather chilly! We had been sitting on one bus or boat or another for about ten hours, and several times I had woken up from [...]
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Where the rainy season meets the springtime, the river meets the ocean, the good wrestles with the ugly…
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 7 December 2009
Alana Solimeo, KF9, Costa Rica I am a seasoned gringa-tica. I have made it through the rainy season and now enjoy the warmth of the sun…much deserved. It’s a hard thing to reason with your expectations of a big life event, such as a 3 month placement in America’s favorite destination, the happiest place on Earth, [...]
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Monteverde and Santa Elena
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 6 December 2009
Costa Rica is a place of contrast. Leaving the hot and humid Pacific side, we travelled to the Northwest highlands and a region called Monteverde. The altitude here makes for a pleasant climate. Warm in the sun, but a little chilly at night, I enjoyed the chance to wear jeans, shoes and socks!
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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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The Slow Life: Transport in Costa Rica
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 4 December 2009
So this is what it means to be utterly at the mercy of the public transport system. It doesn’t mean dashing onto the platform to find that you’ve just missed a tube, and there isn’t another one for (gasp) four minutes. It doesn’t mean sitting on the platform at Birmingham New Street and sighing with [...]
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Coffee: A Love Affair
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 18 November 2009
By Karl Baumgarten, KF9, Costa Rica 4,000,0000 cups per year. 10,958,904 cups per day. 42 beans per cup. 460,273,968 beans per day. And they all have to be picked one by one by one. My fingers hurt just thinking about it. Every cup we make is the culmination of an incredibly involved process that we all [...]
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Enchanting spots: Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 15 November 2009
The Monteverde area is an ecological paradise in Costa Rica, located not too far away from the Volcan Arenal. This mountainous area encompasses a large swathe of tropical rainforest. As it is at an altitude of more than a thousand meters, the forest captures the moisture in clouds that blow in from both the Atlantic [...]
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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.
