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Costa Rica Spirits Magazine Travel Reports
Costa Rica Spirits 3/2011 published
Dear Readers,
With this issue, we would like to introduce you to locals and new immigrants in Costa Rica and Nicaragua who live the rich stories beyond the headlines. Among them, one of the most interesting Costa Rican artists, a coffee farmer, a baker who has transformed her zeal into a business and a musician who uncovered a love for leather design. All have realized dreams that had simply been ideas in their mind’s eye for many years. These articles demonstrate that mere hopes can take root, plans can come to fruition and that opportunities in Costa Rica and Nicaragua exist despite their small economies.
In travel books, many national parks are marketed and described in very detailed ways and therefore attract large crowds of tourists every year. On the contrary, there are also smaller, often practically undiscovered ones like the Curu National Park on the southeast part of the Nicoya Peninsula. We will acquaint you with this park located only a few hours from San José and makes an ideal destination for a weekend trip.
It is certainly no secret that Ticos like soccer however, the fact that there is an official supporter club of German championship record-holder FC Bayern Munich composed only of Ticos, was a surprise for us. We visited him on a Saturday as an exciting game was going on.
In this issue’s segment of our series "Living in Costa Rica", we will shine light on the "Other Costa Rica", the Caribbean coast. Many fall in love with the area on their very first visit to the Atlantic zone. The year-round lush greenery and the relaxed pace of life are, for many, the desired contrast to the everyday hustle and bustle at home. If you are thinking of settling there permanently, you will find useful information in our story. Just a holiday? I highly recommend this region!
In this spirit,
PURA VIDA!
Costa Rica Spirits 2/2011 published
Monday, August 22 2011 00:00
Costa Rica Spirits, issue 2/2011, has been published. You get the hard copy for free in Costa Rica at the places of our advertisers, tourist offices, at the airports, at different car rental companies, hotels and restaurants.
The magazine is published for free as emagazine at issuu.com (also readable by Android) and calameo.com (also readable by IPhone und Android).
Olive Ridley Turtles in Costa Rica
Ostional is one of four places in the world that hosts the amazing massive arrival of tens of thousands nesting Olive Ridley Turtles.
This phenomenon is called "arribada". The event normally endures three days, but between September and December it could last up to nine days. It is estimated that the next arribadas will take place in the last week of July, on 20 August, on 20 September, in the first and the last wekk of November and on 20 December. In October, no arribada is expected. But solitary turtles can always been observed between the arribadas, too.
Information: From Nicoya along the paved and unpaved roads to Nosara. During rainy season four-wheel-drive vehicles are required. To get from Nosara to Ostional Beach you need an organized transport as long as the bridge over the Montaña river is not completed (completion is scheduled for the dry season 2011/2012). The association of local tour guides in Ostional (AGLO) organizes the transport from affiliated hotels like Lagarta Lodge in Nosara to Ostional Beach. Cost for transport varies and depends on the circumstance of nature and the correspondingly required means of transport. A tour guide of AGLO costs 10 $.
Contact AGLO: T. 2682-0428 (Elmith) or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hotel: Lagarta Lodge (www.lagarta.com, T. 2682-0035)
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
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 Spirits 1/2011 published
Monday, March 07 2011 00:00
Just published the first issue of Costa Rica Spirits in 2011.
This issue of the magazine is also available for free in Germany during the International Tourism Fair in Berlin on the stand ot the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT),Stand 212 A, Sat/Sun March 12/13 2011
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, ...
In The Garden of Fantasy
Sunday 16th January 2011
Vernissage of the Artist Helga Denoth in the Casa de Arte (near Nicoya)
The Artist Helga Denoth takes away the Thoughts
The head is still full with the day’s impressions when the visitor enters Helga Denoth’s “Casa de Arte” on the edge of Nicoya. At the start, a path takes him quasi by the hand and leads him into the world of art and first thought-provoking objects on the wayside. A door with more than 150 colored motives forms the crossover into the realm of fancy.
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. ...
Cinema in the Jungle
You must first cross a small river, then follow a steep path up into the lush tropical rainforest that carpets Costa Rica’s Costa Ballena, near the surf town of Dominical.
Here, you will find Cinema Escaleras, a truly unique movie theater surrounded with natural beauty, offering gorgeous views over the Pacific Coast. ...
Wale und tropischer Regenwald
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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. ...
