Dear Mr Cutts: I am a guy who makes a meager living in Costa Rica designing and managing Costa Rica vacations. I own and operate the online vacation planning company with the web site www.packagecostarica.com. I have been doing that since 2003. I am a permanent resident of Costa Rica. Around mid-2012 I noticed a […]
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My last post was on Costa Rica’s rivers. Well, as you might expect, where there are rivers and mountains, there are also lots of, can you guess?… WATERFALLS! Everybody loves those, right? Costa Rica has some spectacular ones. Here’s a list of ten that I really like… 1. The La Fortuna […]
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, […]
I remember the very first time I visited Monteverde. An old friend (Yuri) and I drove up there in his compact Hyundai Sedan, which had very little undercarriage clearance. Certainly it was not meant for off-road activity. Yuri warned me sternly that it was not the right vehicle for such an adventure. I told him […]
Most blogs about Costa Rica are promotional in nature (certainly this one is no exception). There are a precious few really good ones out there, but if you pay too much attention to what is being said, you could get the wrong impression. Often, since most people live in or around San Jose, you get […]
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 […]
There’s a difference in the way people greet one another in Costa Rica as opposed to the U.S. For sure you have the cultural tradition whereby females are greeted with a light kiss on the cheek. And that is certainly a distinguishable custom. But I am talking about things below surface level observations. Compared to […]
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. […]
I can remember on one of my first trips to Costa Rica, back in 2001, when the owner of the university I was working for paid for me and my assistant to take a trip over to the Caribbean side. I wanted to do a little surfing and they chose for me the tiny village […]
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