Ann on February 4th, 2010

Monteverde Costa Rica is filled with tourist from all over the world from January through March which is the time it rains less.  It is located high in the cloudy rain forest, atop the continental divide and about 110 miles from San Jose, the capital city.  The only access is by road and the road [...]

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“The Phases of the Moon, Rainfall, and Black Volcanic Sand of the Beaches at Ostional”  “Arribada”
Traveling to Costa Rica and want to see the nesting rituals of the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle?  Then come in the months of August through December when there is more rainfall on the central Pacific Nicoya Peninsula at a place [...]

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If you are thinking of traveling to Costa Rica to the Southern Caribbean Coast then you need to read all the valuable information about  this web site that I am going to tell you about.
It’s called greencoast.com and was designed and managed by a network of small hotels and locally owned tour companies of this [...]

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SPEAK FOR THESE CREATURES WHICH CAN NOT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES

The leatherback sea turtle is the world’s largest sea turtle and is in danger of becoming extinct. In Costa Rica, it nests on the beaches of Tortuguero National Park during  the months of March through May.  One can go with a park ranger at night [...]

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Ann on September 27th, 2009

On your travels to Costa Rica are you planning to go to Monteverde?  If so you may be lucky and see the most beautiful bird in the rain forest, the resplendent Quetzal. Yes, Quetzals can be found deep in the Monteverde Cloud Forest reserve.  They make their nests in holes in the trees.  The female [...]

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Rancho Margot located near the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica is home to one of the most exciting development projects in the country.  It is the brainchild of Juan Sostheim who came to Costa Rica from Chile to retire, but instead created Rancho Margot,  a self sustainable, self sufficient working ranch.  Juan has opened [...]

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leatherback turtle Grande Beach Costa Rica

Tamarindo Wildlife Refuge covers about 400 hectaries (a very large area)  was created to protect the vast Mangrove swamps in the area, at the request of the locals who saw the large high rise developments going up near Tamarindo and were afraid that this would continue on up to the [...]

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The  Refuge National de Vida Silvestre Gandoca Manzanillo is a remote and exotic destination in Costa Rica, very much off the beaten path.  If you want a unique experience in a very diverse ecosystem, then this is the place for you!  Located on Costa Rica’s southern most Caribbean coastline, it covers 12,000 acres  consisting of  [...]

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Let’s travel to Costa Rica to Cano Negro National Wildlife Refuge.  It’s the middle  of December and the weather is gorgeous with lots of sunshine. We leave early in the morning from San Jose  and travel north on the Inter American Highway (Highway 1)  We will drive first to the Arenal Volcano Areas where we [...]

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Ann on May 30th, 2009

The Community named Monteverde was settled by eleven Quakers  families from Alabama in the early 1950s.  They left the United States and came to Costa Rica looking for a new home,  because they had a strong belief against the military system of the US .  Costa Rica,  in 1948 permanently abolished it’s army, and known [...]

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