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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Santa Cruz – Cartago
The small town of Santa Cruz in the Province of Cartago is a destination not often visited, but for every one who wants to step outside the well traveled paths it is certainly a wise choice. Santa Cruz offers easy access to two wonderful Costa Rican attractions. First of all there is the National Monument [...]
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
National Monument of Guayabo
In the Central Valley in the Province of Cartago, no more than 20 kilometres from the town of Turrialba you find one of Costa Rica’s most impressive pre-Colombian archaeological sites: the National Monument of Guayabo. The 218 hectares of the site of Guayabo became a national protected area in 1973 and is one of the [...]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Santa Cruz – Guanacaste
Santa Cruz is located in the centre of the Nicoya Peninsula in the Province of Guanacaste. After Liberia, with its Daniel Oduber International Airport, Santa Cruz is the second important city in the province. Coming from San Jose in the Central Valley through Puntarenas or from Liberia’s airport on the way to the beaches of [...]
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Green Sea Turtle
The green sea turtle is the largest sea turtle with a hard shell. It is named the green turtle, because of its colour. The body fat turns green caused by the sea turtle’s diet based on algae, which results in the discoloration. The green sea turtle can grow to humongous proportions. The biggest green sea [...]
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Orotina
The small town of Orotina is the capital of the canton with the same name in the south-western part of the Province of Alajuela. Its location in the lowlands on the Pacific side of Costa Rica allows the region of Orotina to profit from the fertile soils and warmer climate to produce an abundance of [...]
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Leatherback sea turtle
The Leatherback is the biggest of the sea turtles and his name derives from the fact that he has a leathery, soft scale in contrast to the other sea turtles, who have hard scales. With a length up to 185 centimetres and a weight up to 700 kilograms it is an impressive creature. It is [...]
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Sloth sanctuary Aviarios del Caribe
When you are travelling from San Jose in the Central Valley, towards the Caribbean coast, you pass one of Costa Rica’s gems: the sloth sanctuary Aviarios del Caribe. Located on the road from the city of Limon to Puerto Viejo, just before reaching the town of Cahuita. Sloths belong to the most intriguing animals that [...]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Costa Rica drinks
Coming to a tropical country like Costa Rica it is very important that you keep drinking enough fluids not to dehydrate. But thanks God, there are also other good drinks than just the famous Costa Rican coffee and bottled water. Favourite non-alcoholic drinks are fresh fruit juices, some of not so well known fruits such [...]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Costa Rica Sea Turtles
Both the Pacific and Atlantic coast in Costa Rica are the stage of one of the most impressive natural occurrences in the world; the landing of sea turtles. Sea turtles are one of the oldest habitants of the planet earth. Their history goes back over 110 million years, meaning that the sea turtles were already [...]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Costa Rica Sloth
The sloth belongs to the same family as the anteater and armadillo. Contrary to its family members the sloth does not live on the ground, but has his habitat in the top of the trees of the forests all over Central and South America. Although most of their diet consists of leaves and fresh shoots, [...]