Las Tinajas

Nicoya, Province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica | Hotel

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Crabs in the morning/ Death march in the afternoon

A travel blog entry by 3beansabroad

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... with a 3-mile hike, we were about halfway into an 8-mile hike that was starting to get steeply hilly, it became the Great Costa Rican Death March. I would like to report that my children accepted the situation with stoicism and good humor. They did not. They did, however, keep marching on. Around mile 5 we found a nearly deserted cantina (locally known as a soda) and were able to recharge with fruit drinks, a few minutes of shade and a distracting dog. When ...

Ostional turtle conservation

A travel blog entry by smithadventures

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... out on the beach, followed by a steady stream of animals for the next three to seven days.

So many turtles come onto the beach in a short time span that most of the first nests are destroyed by later turtles. Therefore, in 1987, a project was initiated to allow local people the right to collect and sell a percentage of the eggs from the first three days of each arribada. This is the only place in the world where it is legal to harvest turtle eggs. This practice ...

Arrived in Tama"gringo"

A travel blog entry by purdie

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... supermarket was fairly inexpensive but if you want American brands like Budweiser, Doritos, etc you will pay a premium price for it (comparable to the price back home). After we stocked up on groceries, we drove the last few minutes through the surfer town of Tamarindo to our home for the next 6 days (Harry's Escondite). Harry greeted us at the driveway, wearing his surfing shorts and nothing else. He gave us the grand tour of his property and ...

Blogging about Logging Beach Time

A travel blog entry by ckarlsgodt

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... a surf lesson. (Be sure to friend Brian on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= 1427315098) It was a really nice weekend spent with an adventurous family who has given up the pace of life in the U.S. for some serious living in Costa Rica.

From there, Christi brought us to revisit Manuel Antonio with her. We synched up with our Seattle friends, Bridget, Fred, Maya and Max who are now doing a home exchange at the Finca in Ciudad Colón. ...

A few comments from Samara

A travel blog entry by julieetbill

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... and finally rounding the bend he pointed up into the trees at 2 black blobs --- Ricardo informed us that they were howler monkeys and just to make the point gave a series of grunts. Well the two black blobs woke up and started to ´Howl¨ ----- I had found my new breed of guard dog --- Howler monkeys. Even here in Costa Rica you hear them almost every night. I am beginning to love the sound even though at 4am it still sends a chill up my ...

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