Costa Rica Kids

Upon completing my first year of teaching, I am setting out to explore Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama. Two weeks with a Mexican Family and Language Instruction, two weeks with one of the best young teachers I know, two weeks on my own and then back to ...

... increase to insure the future energy needs (imports of oil, gas, natural resources etc.) are meet with a growing population. Costa Rica can develop into a high tech, educated population. This sounds good, however, the traditional Latin Family structure ...

... us so we dont get bombarded with feces that the howler monkeys like to throw on tourists as a way of welcoming them to Costa Rica. After breakfast, we take a two-hour boat tour of the Toruguero River and its many tributaries. We see several ...

... , Kelly and Meg invited me to join them for the Independence Day parade in Santa Elena which was a really special experience. Costa Rica is celebrating 180 years of independence today.  All of the schools in the area participate in the ...

... that it´s very common leading up to Christmas. Very strange tradition! Some things that I never leave home without here in Costa Rica: 1. my English - Spanish dictionary, which is getting quite tattered. 2. my calculator - cuz I can't divide by 414 ...

... there too, and Chloe and I met two girls from U of Georgia at the hostel, Brittany and Tiffany. They are studying in northern Costa Rica until December. Brittany came out with Chloe, Ian, and I that night to 'El Pueblo', which is a huge complex of around ...

I made it to Costa Rica. In San Jose it is like any other major city. It reminds me most of Tiajuana or Santa Ana. It is dirty and populated. My step dad kept talking about third world country but at the moment it is not that much different from some ...

... on a 3km hike, following a trail about 10m from the sea along the sand but under the rainforest canopy. What a stunning location. Costa Rica is possibly the world’s most bio-diverse place, with more plant species here than in the whole of Europe ...

... with us and others this holiday season, know we'd love to have you join us! Happy Holidays in advanced to all of you! Tropical Adventures Family. Volunteer in Costa Rica this Christmas - ...

After a stopover in El Salvador, Honduras, and Leon en San Juan del Sur in Nicararagua we where heading for Costa Rica...In Leon however a strange thing happened... Both being in a very good mood we decided to take a ride in Leon's Party bus. A topless ...

Apartment Hunting in San Jose, Costa Rica Monday morning . . . December 1st We awoke to a beautiful sunny day which we assumed was what every day will look like for the next six months.  The typical Costa Rican breakfast (rice, beans, eggs, and ...

... !   The roads in Costa Rica are, so far for us, the worst in the world! We thought Jamaica was bad....but Costa Rica could give them lessons!! The Guide said it was a deliberate strategy by the government to discourage tourists from going back into ...

Our family trip (3 kids, aged 14, 11 and 9 years) to Costa Rica began last Sunday, July 19th. We flew San Jose, CA to San Jose, CR with an unfortunate 4 hour flight delay in Dallas. It was fine really and we managed to distress in a book store, giving the ...

... , 14 of us, basically walked around town all day. It was pretty sweet, it was cool to meet everybody and just absorb Costa Rica. My spanish was a little bit better than I expected, but it still has tons of room for improvement. Anyways, we visited a ...

... of a lifetime! 8 days on the sea...please pray for our health and safety on the boat! Should be amazing... Now about Costa Rica... We arrived in Liberia, Costa Rica (in the northern part of the country) after traveling overland from Nicaragua. We were ...

... passes me over on the handout of the forms thinking that I'm either part of the junior high kids entourage or that I'm not yet an adult! ************* Finally........Costa Rica! My best bud and I go, Go, GO... Heading towards baggage claim, you first ...

... . After another long, bumpy bus trip, we realized that galloping on a horse was more comfortable than vehicular transport via Costa Rica’s mostly unpaved roads. We were carsick and grumpy when we walked in to the Tabacon Resort, but immediately ...

... my RTW list. Right after having the last cheap lunch in the Nicaraguan boarder town Bena Blanca, I entered a dusty Nicaragua-Costa Rica boarder line area. The boarder procedures and paper workp went well and promptly. As it was getting late (I ...