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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Costa Rica Cacao
Resides the excellent coffee that is cultivated in the hills of the Central Valley around Heredia, Grecia, Atenas, Alajuela, Cartago, Sarchi and San Jose, there is another product considered to be black gold: cacao. Cacao is made from the seeds of the cacao tree with the scientific name of Theobroma cacao. This tree has a [...]
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Upala
The small town of Upala is located in the north of Costa Rica’s Province of Alajuela, no more than 10 kilometers away from the border with Nicaragua. The district of Upala covers close to 250,000 square kilometers and has a population of around 14,000 people. The main activity in Upala is agriculture and most people [...]
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Bribri – Talamanca
The small town of Bribri in the Province of Limon carries the name of one of the largest remaining Indigenous tribes in Costa Rica; the Bribri Indians. Bribri is a very small town, located just 15 kilometres inland from Puerto Viejo de Limon on the Caribbean coast in the Talamanca region and is surrounded by [...]
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Siquirres
The town of Siquirres in the Province of Limon is of little tourist importance, but is a junction of the two roads leading to the city of Limon on the Caribbean Coast. Most people drive from San Jose out of the Central Valley following Route 32 through the mountains of the Braulio Carillo National Park [...]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Cano Negro National Wildlife Refuge
In the north of Costa Rica’s Province of Alajuela, all the way up to the border with Nicaragua, one of the most impressive tropical wetlands can be found. Cano Negro National Wildlife Refuge is an almost 10,000 hectares big, protected, uninhabited natural treasure. The best way to reach Cano Negro is by boat, departing form [...]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Nicoya
The city of Nicoya is not known as a tourist destination and mostly is only visited on the way to other places on the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica’s Province of Guanacaste. The town of Nicoya is one of the oldest cities, founded by the Spanish colonists. The name oif the town and the peninsula [...]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Mal Pais
The small town of Mal Pais is located on the west coast of the tip of the Nicoya Peninsula and is part of Costa Rica’s Province of Puntarenas. The way to drive to Mal Pais is to take the highway from the Central Valley to the port of Puntarenas, where a ferry leaves for [...]
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Marino Ballena National Park
On the Pacific Coast in Costa Rica’s Province of Puntarenas, close to the town of Uvita the Ballena Marine Park is situated. The park covers the beaches between the southern part of Playa Hermosa and the northern edge of Playa Pinuela and almost 10 miles of open sea westward. Inside the park are the sandy [...]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Buenos Aires
In the Province of Puntarenas, just a couple of kilometers off the Interamericana Highway, between the cities of San Isidro de El General and Palmar Sur, the town of Buenos Aires is located. In pre-Colombian times the area around Buenos Aires was inhabited by the indigenous tribes of the Borucas. That they occupied a vast [...]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
San Isidro de El General
Leaving San Jose and Cartago in the Central Valley behind and by following the Interamericana Highway you cross one of Costa Rica’s most impressive mountain ranges, the Cerro de La Muerte. Coming down in the Valley of the General River, which runs down westward from the slopes of the Talamanca mountains to the Pacific Ocean, [...]