This is going to be interesting. I went in to the Colorado DMV to renew my driver's license ahead of a trip to Costa Rica this weekend and now I'm doomed. I blocked out a hour figuring that's about how long a five minute process would take when government bureaucracy was involved and was … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
Costa Rica Classic + Surf
Costa Rica's highlights start in the capital where most international flights land. In the city find museums, parks and markets or choose excursions to local coffee farms, botanical gardens, and some of the best rafting in the country. A couple of hours north the continuous activity of Arenal … [Read more...]
Lots of Lefts
Take a left turn out of Juan Santamaría International Airport and just keep going around to the left as you build to the legendary kilometer long point at Pavones. Amazing waves along the Central Pacific coast at Playas Jacó, Hermosa, Esterillos, and Dominical are interspersed with waterfalls, … [Read more...]
Ecozone Extravaganza
Costa Rica has one of the highest concentrations of ecological variety in one of the smallest areas anywhere in the world. This route is designed specifically to give you a chance to experience that variety. Tropical dry forest, cloud forest, rainforest and much more. Arriving at Liberia Airport … [Read more...]
Costa Rica Classic Itinerary
You name the guidebook and this is the oldest loop in the book. There are several good reasons for it. A mix of ecotourism and relaxation with visits to both Caribbean and Pacific slope tropical rainforests as well as the cloud forests of Monteverde combined with the spectacle of Arenal from a … [Read more...]
Books for Costa Rica
Current guidebook reviews are available on this link All Books Alphabetical by Title A Adventures in Nature: Costa Rica by Ree Strange Sheck, Paperback, 320 pages, Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 2nd edition (February 2001), ISBN: 1566912423 A guidebook to Costa Rica built from … [Read more...]
Bird & Wildlife Books
General Interest Wildlife Field Guide to the Wildlife of Costa Rica Color photos, species accounts, and distribution maps, for almost three hundred species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, and other invertebrates are complimented by general introductions to … [Read more...]
Leisure Reading
Some good books while hanging out in a hammock on the beach The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir The true story of a mysterious disappearance of a trekker on the Osa Peninsula. If you've been here you'll get chills. We've crisscrossed this region many times and all the theories - drug runners, … [Read more...]
How to Search a Webpage
If you don't know how to search the contents of a webpage it's high time to learn On a desktop or laptop - press ctrl+f and type what you're looking for. Modern browsers will automatically scroll to the first instance and then skip to the next every time you hit enter. On an i-phone or i-pad - … [Read more...]
Find Locations
In the olden days (the 1990's) when we first started this website about Costa Rica there were no modern GPS enabled online maps for anywhere. We wanted to be able to show locations on Costa Rica Guide.com. We also wanted to automatically access information and photos for nearby hotels, … [Read more...]
HTML and ASCII Codes for Special Characters
Name Code Number Code Glyph Description ‘ ‘ left single quote ’ ’ right single quote ‚ ‚ single low-9 quote “ “ left double quote ” ” right double quote „ „ double … [Read more...]
English Costa Rican Spanish Dictionary
PHRASES The ATM ate my card! ¡El cajero automático se comió mi tarjeta! When does it open? ¿A qué hora abre? When does it close? ¿A qué hora cierra? What is the exchange rate? ¿Cómo es el tipo de cambio? What is the commission? ¿Cuál es la … [Read more...]