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Travel Blogs from Manuel Antonio, Quepos, Costa Rica
Heaven on earth
This is a top pick! ... entire family living outside of Costa Verde. Mom and I spend our time hiking, swimming and relaxing. Its hard to pick favourites in Costa Rica, but this ranks high up on our list. You can hike the forest trails all day, and cool off in the ocean at ...
Paradise
This is a top pick! Costa Verde and Manual Antonio is PARADISE!!! We fell in love at first sight. We spend our last 6 days relaxing on the beaches and enjoying life. Costa Verde's theme is "More Monkey's than People", and they are right. Each morning, we were greeted by an ...
Crack Whores and a Crazy old man
This is a top pick! ... happy hour...which is where we met Adrian(artist from CA) and Frederick(from St. Martin)whose parents own the oldest hotel in Manuel Antonio, La Mariposa...they talked (Kiley) into doing somersalts down the hill with them...and, minus the fire ants, was ...
Redneck Riviera
This is a top pick! ... developed in a way that is unlikely to make me a repeat visitor to the Pacific Coast. We stayed a couple nights in Manuel Antonio and a couple nights in Bahia Salinas, near the Nicaraguan border. Kia had been to the beach area Manuel Antonio in 1989 ...
Sick of bloody monkeys
This is a top pick! ... our back on susan (the sloth) but we had to go. Feeling like we should at least see some other place in Costa Rica, we pushed on to Manuel Antonio National Park just 100ks up the coast (and a five hour bus journey of course). As with nearly everywhere in ...
Canopy tour/Zip lining in Manuel Antonio
... back on monday and see the white faced monkeys.... except the national park is closed on mondays. :-( Evidently all national parks in costa rica are closed on mondays. Yikes. OK, my days are numbered, I leave friday, I'll try one more day, ...
our last voyage through Costa Rica
... cell phones, but everyone all made it here safely. On the night of the 17th all six of us hopped on to our first bus to Manuel Antonio, the girls occupying the back of the very back of the bus to chat and catch up most of the entire ride. The majority ...
Crazy work week and then off to the beach
... it was the crack of dawn, 5:00 in the morning, I was up before my neighbour, the loudest parrot known to man. The beach at Manuel Antonio was beautiful, and it was really nice to get out of town for a day. We swam in the ocean, but eventually got scared ...
Manuel Antonio
... our strange night out, but once we were finally ready, Davo, Glenn and the two of us headed to the bus terminal to go to Manuel Antonio for a few days. The bus terminal was notorious for thieves, so we had plans to keep all our gear in sight and safe. ...
Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
... return. I really kick myself for not really knowing more than 1 language. I arrived at my house in Quepos, which is the local town near Manuel Antonio national park. It actually is an old plantation housing. I'm still not sure if it was banna ...
Last day in Manuel Antonio, last chance for Monkey
... runs afternoon buses for $21 from here to La Fortuna. So I've got the morning to hope to go see monkeys at the Park Manuel Antonio. Morning I've heard is the best time anyway, and I missed the mornings last week because I had Spanish class. So I got ...
Sloths, monkeys and reggae
Wednesday, August 8th From Puerto Jimenez, we took a short flight up the coast to Manuel Antonio, a small touristy village in the rainforest, near a beautiful beach. Costa Rica´s most popular national park is located here. We came with a mission - to ...
Back to the beach!
... much going on in Quepos but we joined a karaoke bar and started into the vodka...Anyway, the smallest national park in Costa Rica is here in Manuel Antonia and we were lucky to have a great guide who had the most amazing pair of eyes and let us take ...
hoping about again
so the circle is joined, nige and his green bag borrowed from gooders and i reunite and continue making decisions after breakfast. so far we have managed to stand on surf boards, ride quod bikes and rafts in rapids and swim in the pacific.....all for ...
106
... ." 10'000 Colones (25 Stutz) wechseln den Besitzer, und der Fehlbare verspricht hoch und heilig, auf Costa Rica´s Strassen nie wieder ein Gefaehrt zu steuern. Merke: Manchmal lohnt es sich, zwecks Vertrauensbildung dieselbe Frisur wie ein lokaler ...
Tourist Central
... 2 hrs for the 12:30. We had to wait forever for our bus once we got into our layover town, to get to Quepos bigger town just outside Manuel Antonio, to catch a cab to MA to our hostel. We didnt actually travel that far, but our day consisted of so much ...
Paradise found
... inviting this morning, with bright sunshine greeting us, instead of the drizzly rain of last time. Our bus to Quepos, the nearest town to the Manuel Antonio national park, was packed to the gills - we were lucky to get seats, as although we ...
Visiting the animals in Manuel Antonio
... is dreadful.....30 mins to get this far, so update when we get a high speed (or relatively) connection. Spent 2 days at Manuel Antonio...its famous for its National Park, which is fringed by 5 beaches. 1st day it rained just after we finished lunch, ...
Manuel António - Armadilha de Turista?
Armadilha de Turista? É talvez o Parque Nacional mais visitado na Costa Rica cheio de resorts, hóteis e chalets de luxo nas envolvências. Sorte! Não era dia de enchente... as praias, a natureza e os animais... Sim, macacos, iguanas, caranguejos, ...
Marvellous Manuel Antonio
... look like now if it was allowed to develop unhindered. Stayed the night in a little town called Quepos which is about 5km away from Manuel Antonio and basically seems to be a service town for the National Park . After dark Quepos becomes more than ...
Manuel Antonio(Saskatchewan Style!!)
... teek plantations and local points of interest along the way! We saw crocodiles, turtles and beautiful mountain views!! We went into Manuel Antonio National Park one morning! We hiked around the park! We saw monkeys in the tree canopy! It was nice ...
Manuel Antonio, un petit coin de paradis...
Nous pensions rester 2 jours, nous y sommes restes ...
Costa Rica, Pacific Coast
... our money, to which we replied `No Gracias´and walked on fast) I wanted to move on the next day and bought a bus ticket to Manuel Antonio, a nice surf town on the Pacific Coast. Besides, I was to start school over there in a couple of days! Loved Manual ...
Sun, Sea, Sand and Snakes
Well I arrived in Manuel Antonio last Thursday after a very scenic 3 1/2 hour bus ride. My original plan was to read or mess about on my iPod to pass the time but not long after getting out of the city we were high up in the mountains. With every turn ...
Back up to Manuel Antonio
... or no water and partly due to the fact that I love salt water and it pretty much cleans better than anything. Tomorrow we are gonna spend the whole day in Manuel Antonio. The plan is to chill out, check out some trails and do some ...
Still more monkeys than people...just
... in a very friendly but overpriced roach infested room but it was just the jumping off point to visit our first national park in Costa Rica : Manuel Antonio. The park is on the coast and is really pretty and we saw plenty : sloths, monkeys, big lizards, ...
Visiting the bar I was supposed to work at
... for 10 bucks a head. Tom Kelly's dad ( Tom is one of my best friends from high school) retired to Costa Rica and bought a bar in Manuel Antonio. Its call Coconuts and its right on the beach. Tom and his brother Chris went down to help ...
Day # 4
... ; From the bits she has read me I'm not surprised. Hopefully tonight we're off to a bar to catch the Costa Rica - Salvador world cup qualifier. My mate Danno back home is a soccer nut and has travelled to South America several times ...
DAY # 2
Don't ever believe a sun block manufacturer that tells you their "Once" factor 30 sun block only needs to go on at the start of the day. Bollox, the Mrs and I have what can only be termed, "Comedy" sunburn. For example, I have a red belly, ...
Day # 3. "Did the Earth move for you?"
... the time I normally get up at the moment. Apart from the excitement of Bamboo Jam last night, the hub of local life in Manuel Antonio. Provider of great local food / music & beer, the earth actually moved, no really it did. Katy and I ...