Myths and misunderstandings about travel in Costa Rica can cause confusion or sometimes hilarity… environmentally friendly | tip included | the island | bad roads | heap travel | dry season | 8...
There are two reasons we won’t just send you the gpx files to load into your Garmin so you can solo this trek In order to enter or cross the indigenous reserves you need the blessing of the peo...
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update – I recently headed up to Poco Sol again and saw that the hydro project on Quebrada Gata was complete. I don’t know how far up the canyon they tubed the water but I do know that beca...
…and Ni Sa Bula Vinaka… or Aloha… If there were just one phrase to evoke Costa Rica it would be ¡Pura Vida! “What does it mean?” you ask. Well, it’s roughly the equivalent of bula bu...
Sometime things don’t turn out the way you planned, but fortunately in Costa Rica that often means that they turn out better. We particularly anticipated the last couple of days of one trip to ...
There is a gravel shortage in Costa Rica. At least what you might usually think of as gravel. To make gravel, large rocks are normally crushed into fairly uniform pieces somewhere between the siz...
Adventure is the most common word we hear when we ask travelers to describe navigating around Costa Rica and it’s no surprise. Street names have only been introduced in the past couple of years...
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Modern canopy tours were invented in the 1970’s when the rain and cloud forest canopies were the last remaining frontiers of botany, zoology, entomology and ecology. Ph.D. students Donald Perry...
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Sue and I are both biochemists, so we felt right at home talking with the scientists, and getting a perspective on some of their studies while visiting the biological research station in Santa Ro...
Our longest bicycle tour was three months from June through August and had a lot to do with our decision to try to make a good map of Costa Rica. We were lost more often than not and the detour...
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