I will begin this post with a question: What are two things that over the last 10 years appear to have grown steadily in popularity across North America… Ok perhaps you can name more than two. But for the purposes of this blog article I will tell you about two in particular that have [...]
Many people may not be aware but prostitution is actually legal Costa Rica. We have discussed sex tourism a few of times on our blog but do not like to write about it too often as we are not proponents of this mentality or approach and more importantly would prefer traffic looking for this [...]
My best friend Pat (a big French Canadian lad) lives in Costa Rica. He told me when I went for my first visit to see him that because Costa Rican men are generally much smaller than Canadian men that he doesn’t get intimidated very easily. I guess size does matter after all. [...]
One thing you will notice on your travels in Costa Rica is the fact that Costa Rican people offer assistance very willingly. Perhaps the following is a generalization but when I have traveled to poorer areas of the world (i.e. Panama, Morocco and some poorer areas in the south of Spain and Portugal) the [...]
Over the next few weeks I will be writing a series of posts related to my feelings on what makes Costa Rica a truly unique destination to travel too. Now the first thing you may notice is the ‘nature’ of the subjects I have chosen. Although no pun is intended, there is distinctly [...]
My fiance is Costa Rican, and one of the things that bothers her most is having to hear all of my foreign friends visit the country and pick it apart, which is what we tend to do when we travel. Everyone says they love Costa Rica, but they also can’t wait to share [...]
Rincon de la Vieja is one of Costa Rica’s richest and most distinct parks. It was created in 1973 to protect the extensive flora, fauna and watersheds around the area. There are 32 rivers that flow down the flanks of this volcano, making its ecological importance impossible to overestimate. Altitudes and climates vary significantly within [...]
A neat little activity to do if you are near Heredia in the Central Valley. Costa Rica is famous for its coffee and Cafe Britt is the premiere coffee company in Costa Rica. The coffee tour includes a quick visit to a small coffee plantation. This plantation is practically there just [...]
One of the less travelled destinations in Costa Rica among main stream tourism, but quite popular with Eco-tourists, the Osa Peninsula is truly the beauty of nature unabashed. Although it can be quite cumbersome to get to, the reward, once arrived, is immediately recognized. Here the nature seeker experiences sights and sounds of the [...]
One thing that Costa Rica may not be very well known for is its sea coral. It was thus to my amazement that I discovered how great this can be when I travelled to the Osa peninsula for the first time and organized a boat trip through a local sea excursion/ tour operator in [...]