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Manuel Antonio National Park Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica
No paradise found.
This is a top pick! ... few years ago. But when you are perfect, it's difficult to stay that way. There's too many tourists here now, and tiny Manuel Antonio National Park, just next to the small village with the same name, seems to struggle a bit with the constant flow of them. ...
Seaside Jungle Adventure
... was so tired that we all went to bed even though it was fairly early. Day 10 – Monday, July 6, 2009 – MANUAEL ANTONIO NATIONAL PARK IS CLOSED ON MONDAYS We knew this before we came, but it is good to know when you are planning ...
Sloths, Monkeys & Bulls, Oh My!
After living here for almost a month, we FINALLY made it to the Manuel Antonio National Park. There is a $10 entrance fee to go to the park, so we wanted to go on a day where we would be there almost the whole day. The park is known for amazing wildlife ...
Manuel Antonio
becca....Awesomeness. This park was seriously cool - its one of the smallest in CR, but also one of the most popular, I think because of the combo of scenic park and beautiful beaches - kinda heavenly almost. As soon as we ...
Back to Manuel, day 1 and part of 2
... was nice to have some other people that spoke english on the bus, and it helped from getting to bored, and we actually arrived in Manuel Antonio on time. I got to the hostel a little before 1, and when I got there they had made a mistake on my room ...
Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica
... důvodů velmi hodilo. Poslední lednový víkend jsme se vydali omrknout pláže Pacifiku a blízký národní park Manuel Antonio. Jeden z Victorových bratrů, Fredy, měl v pátek cestu do Jaco, přímořského letoviska, ...
Pacific rains
... sampling of CR. So we set off in our rental 4WD Kia SUV and headed along the beach road to Manual Antonio National Park. I read, aside from being the most visited park, it was beautiful with several beaches and a rain forest. Unfortunately, they ...
some people's idea of heaven
... day Friday Weather a lot better today, no rain and quite a lot of sunshine. We were up and out early to go to Manuel Antonio National park. We had read a couple of reviews about the park and were not really expecting a lot, and when the Iguana Tours bus ...
Quiero ver los monos!!
... with her flights and we were together again in yet another country! Victor was driving us from San Jose to Quepos/Manuel Antonio National Park. This is a beautiful beach area with the Pacific Ocean on one side and a National Park full of wildlife on the ...
Manuel Antonio
A doua zi după o scurtă leneveală pe plajă am ajuns în Manuel Antonio. Aici am descoperit un restaurant cu totul special, cu o priveliște extraordinară către ocean și către o insulă apropiată. ...
In the Jungle
We found our way back to what we love, wildlife at Manuel Antonio National Park, in Spanish the Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio. The park was Established in 1972 with an area enumerating 4,014 acres ...
Dia 8. Monteverde - Manuel Antonio
*** PLANING *** Desayuno en el hotel, check-out y salimos camino a Manuel Antonio (4h. aproximadamente). De camino parada en el Rio Tarcoles para ver los cocodrilos desde el puente. Llegada al hotel, devolución del coche de alquiler, y descanso en ...
Paradise and Naughty Raccoons
We got a speed boat ride from Montezuma over to Jaco, where we then grabbed a bus to Quepos and transferred into Manuel Antonio. Slightly more touristy but oh so beautiful. The beach was a paradise of soft sand and clear blue seas, fringed with ...
Costa Rica - Manuel Antonio
ˇBuenas! Charlotte Here: Our last proper stop before leaving Costa Rica was in Manuel Antonio National Park on the Pacific Coast; the country's smallest reserve. What the park lacks in size it makes up for in beauty, with small beaches and bays ...
A few days thrown together
... (Rather than a direct) bus. We stood for about the first 2 hours of the 5 hour ride. 2. We made it to Manuel Antonio National Park. We saw two types of monkeys, iguanas, and a sloth. 3. We hiked to Playa Escondido (Hidden Beach), that is only ...
Manuel Antonio
... Livingston's character in the movie Office Space, it was everything I dreamed it could be. Well, almost nothing. We arrived in Manuel Antonio last night (we hired Gustavo again, since there were nine of us) and went out to dinner and then to a ...
Living on Tico time
... . Yeasterday I got up supper early and my dorm mates, one guy from Sweeden and another from the States plus myself when into the National Park to do some hiking and spot some animals. We could have hired a guide for $20 but decided against it and ...
Quisiera ser una lagarta muy grande
... we hunted for the only hostel that we knew of in town and settled ourselves in. The next day we went to the Manuel Antonio National Park and discovered there is actually a cheaper hostel very nearby to the park and the beach – just a word of ...
Dia 9. Manuel Antonio
... *** Por la mańana ir a hacer rafting sobre las 8:00 de la mańana. Justo despues de comer, visita al Parque Nacional de Manuel Antonio. Durante toda la ruta se va bordeando la playa, con lo que uno se puede bańar a su gusto e incluso se puede ...
Bargain Shopper
... . I had a great time and once again was awestruck by the beauty in which I was surrounded. Although the school planned a trip to Manuel Antonio for the weekend I made my own arrangements and did the trip at a third of the cost. My bus dropped myself and ...
Days24-29: Posessed children and a day in paradise
... mom would say, how beautiful! Sing it again! Gaaa. But we survived our encounter without resorting to exorcism and arrived in Manuel Antonio. It´s amazing how beach towns the world over are kind of similar. This one had lots of cute restaurants and bars ...
Manuel Antonio and good bye Amanda
to cap off amanda's time here in costa rica, we jumped on a bus to quepos and stayed right near manuel antonio national park. we rolled into the beachfront town that is a few hundred meters' worth of restaurants and surf shops away from the entrance to ...
birds, sloths and more
Manual Antonio has fantastic white sandy beaches and we saw lots of different animals on our walk through the forest. The sunset and the happy hour, just ...
...Pero no vi ningun mono
My great aspiration for this trip to Manuel Antonio was to see a monkey, so while the girls wanted to go to the beach again today, I decided to head to the Parque Nacional to stalk some critters. Park admission was ten bucks, and it was posted in ...
Monkeys and minor disasters
This weekend (my last one as a volunteer!) we went to Manuel Antonio National Park. It didn't start well, we planned to get the 7am bus from San Jose, and got taxis so we could have a teensy bit more time in bed. Only we accidentally went to the wrong bus ...
Running in Costa Rica - NOT so good for the heart.
... I just stepped out of a shower. Then there's this, what they call here a main road that runs from Quepos to the beach at Manuel Antonio National Park. The distance from Villa Titti (where we are staying) to Quepos is about 4 km. This is what I ...
Happy New Year in Costa Rica
I hope this entry finds you all happy healthy and ready to take on another new year. It was a little unusual to say the least for us last night. This is the first New Year's Eve in a long time that we haven't spent our evening with the ...
Monkeyballs
Kande att jag var pa vag att bli sjuk under den 8h langa bussturen fran Monteverde, sa huvudelen av vistelsen har varit ganska lugn. Syftet med att aka hit ar att besoka nationalparken for att se en, massa djur, vilket jag ocksa gjorde, feberyrande och ...
Monkeying around
... bar, but there was no chance I was singing in Spanish...or any language actually! My last weekend was spent in Manuel Antonio, a national park on the Pacific coast. I travelled with five other volunteers, who were all similarly exhausted when we met at ...