Picture yourself on a white sand beach in the glaring tropical sun listening to the waves crash on a crystal blue sea while you recline on your beach chair sipping a tropical rum punch. Sound nice? Well it’s a perfect setting to enjoy in a place like Cancun or Cozumel, where the resorts are large, […]
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It seems that the more Costa Rica grows in world-wide tourism popularity, the more plastic the general vacation experience of it becomes. Did you know that the country got its touristic start as a hard-core eco-tourism location, more suited for mochileros (backpackers) than millionaires? But boy has that changed. However, that organic eco-intensive vacation experience […]
Sometimes I run across things I’ve written years ago that still seem quite relevant today… Like this “matter full in Costa Rica” post from way back when…actually the reference to my age gives it away, since I’m now 53 (well, almost 54)… Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that there’s something different about the […]
I’ve written so much in the past about why Costa Rica is different. Why it is not a good candidate for the Hotel + Flight deal that is so prevalent in the tourist offerings out there these days. In fact, Google has pretty much allowed the search results for Costa Rica vacations and similar terms […]
There is something fascinating about a river. A river is perhaps given birth by a small pool of fresh water high in the mountains. In Costa Rica we have two coastlines, the Pacific and the Caribbean. The unwavering law of gravity pulls the water in one direction or the other, towards one of our coasts, […]
Here’s a novel vacation idea for you… I once had the notion of offering a traditional Costa Rica vacation package with a twist. And the twist would be allocating some portion of your vacation time to volunteering. The volunteer part would not just be about sloshing out ladles of soup in some downtown San Jose soup kitchen. […]
Okay, so we’ve been talking about the problems with the mega all-inclusive resorts in Costa Rica. But there is another type of all-inclusive resort that we believe presents the best of all Costa Rica experiences. I don’t want to go into the technicalities of the distinction between eco-lodges and eco-resorts, but the ones we really […]
I’ve been ranting a bit lately about this new and alarming trend that I’ve seen develop over the last few years in Costa Rica tourism. I called it the other day a form of commoditization. In other words, Costa Rica begins to look and feel like any other vacation destination among the panoply of choices. […]
Sorry if I seem to have become enamored with the list post, but all the experts tell me they work. Usually I would think to write about the 5 things, or 10, or 20 that you should bring with you to Costa Rica (yea, a packing list, so to speak). But this morning I thought […]
I have written quite a bit in this blog over the years on the topic of sustainability. Most of the posts have concerned environmental sustainability and managing our impacts in order not to do ecological harm. This morning I want to twist that topic around a bit and point it back at ourselves so as […]
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