10 Reasons Why Costa Rica makes a Great Holiday Destination
Costa Rica has a great deal to offer.
It can be much cheaper than you might think, if you are prepared to search for the best deals and it really is worth the effort of getting there.
Walking into Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica via La Leona Station is a perfectly do-able return journey in a day. To make it enjoyable into the bargain, a little forward planning goes an awfully long way.
Getting to Carate, – just arriving at the starting point for this walk, early enough to make the whole thing viable, needs some thought……. Continue reading →
What this little Costa Rican beach town lacks in size is amply made up for by its character. Montezuma on the Nicoya Peninsula is a gem. Continue reading →
Costa Rica’s Scarlet Macaws
Now that our own brood has flown the nest, one of the main reasons, in fact THE main reason we decided to do some more serious travelling (and the photography, that, for us goes hand in hand with it), is that we still have an awful lot of ‘ wanna’s’ left to do.
For this particular Wanna, quite honestly, Macaws of any kind would have more than fitted the bill……. mmm…… excuse the pun! . But the Scarlet variety lives on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and we were hoping to see them when we were there. Continue reading →
Costa Rica’s Arenal National Park tends to be an ‘on the way to’ kind of a place. Talk to visitors there and they will tell you that they are on the way to Tortuguero or the Caribbean beaches, or spending a couple of days on the way back to San Jose.
It’s a fact that, in a two or three week holiday, ‘attractions’ have to be allocated a slot in the schedule (if only we could all wander the world at will, with no restrictions on time!). But Arenal really does deserve a 3 night minimum and here’s why:- Continue reading →