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Costa Rica Spirits Magazine Travel Reports
Costa Rica Spirits 1/2012 published
Dear Readers,
Aside from the most popular tourist attractions, there are many places to discover in Costa Rica which are absolutely worth a visit. This time, we stayed on the Isla del Caño - a magnificent diving and snorkeling spot on the southern Pacific coast. Rainforest and the largest mangrove area in Latin America form a landscape that ensures a fascinating nature experience.
San José is waking up. The culture minister, an active musician himself, and the mayor of the city are very involved in making the capital more livable and attractive. In addition to the Festival Internacional de las Artes, which will take place in the next few weeks presenting more than 2,000 artists, I would like to particularly highlight the event "Fall in love with your city": Every Saturday in various places in the city, artists, musicians, acrobats and others perform for free. Oversized board games are available and you can participate in various workshops. I can highly recommend that you take this opportunity to spend time together with local people over a relaxing day – you’ll like it.
Many places in Costa Rica make an effort to provide a wide range of attractions for tourists. In this issue, we introduce you to Nosara, a holiday destination in Guanacaste. Anyone who spends his vacation here can choose between all different kinds of leisure activities; surfing, stand up paddling, yoga, bird watching and much more. However, even for those who want to relax in peace, this is the right place. Anyone who has experienced the magnificent sunset over the sea will remember this place for a long time.
Success Story in Guanacaste
In Costa Rica one can find 5% of all species of the world.
The German nature protection association “Tropica Verde”, joined by local authorities and the government has started a reforestation project to save the natural habit of these animals and to combat deforestation. This project is already showing some achievement.
The German TV-program Deutsche Wellt TV has broadcasted an interesting report presenting this project at
www.dw-world.
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The Rainforest of the Austrians
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It was love on the first sight as Michael Schnitzler, the Viennese music professor and well-known violinist bought a cabin on Golfo Dulce 20 years ago in order to spend his vacations there.
He was fascinated by the Esquinas rain forest and the variety and tropical virgin nature in Costa Rica’s southern part. He noticed
Zippy Enjoyment
Lost Canyon Adventures Canyoneering
A tour through a canyon with waterfalls promises swift adventure and we won’t be disappointed. Water is our permanent companion on this tour: rappelling over the waterfall, jumping into and running through water up to our bellybuttons. This style of engaging the wet element is called “Canyoneering”.
Costa Rica's Underworld
Adventure in Dripstone Caves
How could it be different in Costa Rica – when we speak about the underworld, we don’t talk about guys and dolls, but about an adventure in the nature, the caves of Venado. Whoever now imagines a cold, damp cave like in Europe, will be surprised: these caves near Arenal are wet, but also pleasantly warm.
There are no Varmints in the Jungle
How one can learn about the Forestry from the Bribri - Indians
A graveled road leads along the Sixaola river to the Bambu village. We enjoy the view to the densely forested Talamanca mountains that go far beyond the near border to Panama. The small village offers visitors a simple but spacious accommodation, built from wood and palm leaves, to stay overnight and taste the native cooking. There are tours by foot or boot to waterfalls, traditional sites and, above all, into the forests. Almost the entire Bribri area consists of jungle and they call it their green gold. But plantation cultivation is partly operated also. More than hundred years ago, ...
Working as a Foreigner in Costa Rica
Occasionally, you see the travelers thoughts when they’re waiting at the Juan Santamaria Airport for their flight home after their vacations are over. They wistfully glance at the evening sunlit Santa Ana mountains as their thoughts slowly wander back home: to the cool weather that will soon displace the fall and to the work that one could imagine to be nicer in an ambience like here. And so they rush to a newsstand before boarding. On the plane, the just-now-learned Spanish is strained in order to curiously study the job offers in the “Empleos” column.
Sustainable Tourism in Costa Rica
Worldwide, many companies gladly provide their products and services nowadays with a supplementary eco endorsement, even though the customers don’t often exactly know if the environment is really protected by this.
In order to provide the tourists in Costa Rica with a guide of which hotels and tour organizers actually protect the environment, the National Tourist Institute (ICT) has introduced a certification with the name CST (Certificación para la Sostenibilidad Turistica).
Volcano Hiking in Costa Rica
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Astonished, we stand on the crater’s brink and, more than a hundred meters down, look deeply into the bubbling lagoon. It’s a rare spectacle that we can enjoy here because just a handful of Costa Rica volcanoes are still active. Besides this, also because of the Volcano Poas which, due to its good accessibility among the other active volcanoes, is the only one with an accessible crater brink, the ....
The Best Museums of Costa Rica
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Golden History
Costa Rica’s natural resources are known to many, but the country also possesses numerous historical and cultural treasures which impress the visitors in the many museums. Gold from the pre-Columbian era or religious art from the colonial period, historical agricultural tools or contemporary art are various exhibitions that can be seen mostly in San José and the environs. ...
Wales and Tropical Rainforest
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The southern Pacific coast probably affords more diverse nature than any other Costa Rican region. ...
Chirripo - Costa Rica's Roof
To discover nature on individual tours is that which has always fascinated Christoffer Steffen. After many years in Africa, he’s now on a discovery tour in Costa Rica. In this edition he takes the Costa Rica Spirits readers along up to the highest peak in Costa Rica, the 3820 meters high Chirrip. ...
