Hotel Amon Plaza San Jose

Okay, so now I don't think I was staying in the slums of Santa Cruz my first night here. I think that is what most of the country is like. I have now driven through this country for several hours and every house has either a fence, bars over their doors and windows or both. They even have this in little country towns which is so unusual. We don’t see that in the states unless it is the slums of a city. One other unique thing ...

... like Keno and I was nervous that I would miss my turn. Luckily it was sort of easy. The teller was nice. He spoke no English. I am here trying to get better…really I am. I was a little nervous not having a person that spoke English, though, when I was dealing with my money. I don't know what I thought that he would do. Grab my money, spout off some stuff in Spanish and run. I’m an idiot. Anyway, I gave him my measly $60.00 he gave me 37,000.40 ...

... will escort them personally to their hotel. Ivantours Costa Rica has made valuable arrangements for our clients with only the best qualified hotels in the city, at the beach and in the mountains. We also have important agreements with the major auto-rental agencies, tour operators and tourist transportation companies throughout the country ready to attend your needs quickly ...

... things, first we ran into a couple rats, one on the ground and one up in a tree. Then walking over the swamp we say a fairly large fish for living in a swamp, right next to a couple frogs and a spider that walks on the water catching insects on the water. The spider was pretty cool to watch hunt. Then in the distance we saw some eyes light up across the swamp, it was two pacas, the largest rodent in Costa Rica. They were pretty interesting since I have ...

... many families have young children. Good job, good economy usually leads to family planning and kids. And when these kids reaches the age of maturity in 15 to 20 years, Costa Rica will require more agricultural land to feed itself and to live. To also maintain the per capital GDP with a growing population, Costa Rica also need more exports of Coffee, Bananas and Beef, which requires more forest land to be developed into agricultural land. These exports also must increase ...

... over, all of us had tears in our eyes when we were leaving. The tours we did together here are something I will never forget. The 2-day trip over to Panama, just mind-blowing... I thought I'm kind of fit to walk for a couple of hours. We have some pretty strenuous mountains back at home. Here the first part was ...

... especially my 8-year-old cousin Carlo, who outnumbers my own parents 3:1 in my photo gallery), my friends dancing at parties (several kids have asked about the American equivalent of Costa Rican folkloric dancing-the problem is, while we have traditional folkloric dances in the U.S., neither I nor any other young person I know has any idea how to do them. And these kids are a little young to learn how to bump and grind) and, of course, the topic of seemingly greatest interest, my ...