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Tarcoles Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tarcoles, Costa Rica
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Getting acquainted
Hello, everyone! Well, we've been traipsing around the country a bit -- we went to Orotina on Saturday to visit Marco's daughter and husband, and then went to the beach. We had dinner in an outdoor cafe en route and the torrential rain hit just at ...
Carara Biological Reserve
... . Up early as usual to make sure we spot as many animals as possible. Today we visited our last national park in Costa Rica - Carara Biological Reserve - which is on the way back towards Costa Rica. We were actually very lucky to have crossed the ...
So god damn beautiful
... ;On our way back down we came across a troop of around 50 Squirrel Monkeys that are extremely rare throughout the rest of Costa Rica, but somehow the smallest of Central American Monkeys thrive in Manuel Antonio. We were both nearly moved to tears ...
The Crocodile Bridge and the Scarlet Macaws
This is our first chance to see the coast of Costa Rica. We drove down out of the mountains towards San Jose and then on towards the long coastal road that follows most of the Pacific side. There are still mountains along the coast; but now we saw coconut ...
Costa Rica - Part 1.
... tour of the Tarcoles River. He arrived with his two daughters (it was the start of the long summer/Christmas school holidays in Costa Rica). A French couple joined us and then we were off. We must have seen at least 20 different species of bird on that ...
Crocodile Feeding
... this would involve a guy chucking bits of meat out of the boat for the crocs to gobble up. Well not quite. This is Costa Rica, and Ticos are all either crazy or were born without a sense of danger. So instead, when we come across a croc ...
Cocodrilo
Yo fui a el rio tarcoles. Yo mire los cocodrilos mas grande! Yo pase en bote con un guío. El guio tienio cicatrices para los cocodrilos. Despues, come almuerzo. Yo come gallo pinto. Yo monte en coche y mire los hombres vendio mangos y flores de yuca ...
Carara National Park
... de Pacific Ocean gezien met allerlei bijbehorende zeevogels zoals bv de bruine pelikaan. Voor het eerst in een hotel (Hotel Carara in Tarcoles) in een klein dorpje wat het volgens mij vooral moet hebben van de 'crocodile safari's' waarbij ene man staat ...
naked scream therapy waterfall tours for WOMEN onl
i think i just put a blog up describing this, but it went into never never land...this is a new site for me! bear with me and have ...
weer op excursie
... stond naast de quetzal hoog op zijn verlanglijstje. Aan het eind van de middag samen met Victor naar de rivier de Rio Tarcoles getrokken. Deze geeft 3 biotopen bij elkaar, de zee waarin hij uitmondt, de mangrovebossen en de rivier zelf. Ook hier werden ...
Carara National Park
... does not appear on the resort’s bird list and was out of range as per Stiles and Skutch. A quick visit to the Tarcoles bridge (closest parking to the Mangrove Lagoon Trail) produced Orchard Oriole and an Osprey, then we walked along the road to the ...
Frogs, Butterflies, and Crocodiles
... - excellent English - did you know that poison frogs have to eat fire ants to retain their poison? After lunch we went to the Rio Tarcoles to see the cocodillos. The River is one of, if not the, most polluted in Central and South America. All ...
Up close and personal with Person eating crocs
... to 40 American Crocodiles inhabit the waters below the bridge. The bridge is such a popular area for crocodiles that the Costa Rican police station several officers there to protect the tourist from various dishonest persons, as in previous times cars ...
HOTEL VILLA SUNNI DAZE NEW IN THE HEART OF TARCOLE
... world, mostly as an advid Scuba Diver, Surfer! I opened the little Villa Sunni Daze Hotel in the Heart of Tarcoles, Costa Rica. Since opening in February 2011, it has been simply amazing! I have had guests from a different country almost every time! ...
Tarcoles River tour
Today we went on a riverboat tour of the Tarcoles River which is the second largest in Costa Rica. It comes in through San Jose and feeds into the ocean. We saw Scarlet Macaws, Blue Herons, a falcon and so many I've forgotten the names of-too bad Jan ...
Semana Santa
... and met a dad and daughter duo, Big Mike and Alison. They invited me to have a beer and we chatted about the states and Costa Rica. Alsion is a teacher in North Carolina and therefore we had a lot to talk about. After dinner, I tried the apt number again ...
Parque Nacional Carara
... 's main attraction is the regular presence of scarlet macaws. These exotically colorful and majestic birds used to be common all over Costa Rica but have been reduced to a small number because of ever greater human presence and activity. Luckily they have ...
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