Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Costa Rica on List of Top 20 Countries for Drug Trafficking

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Image by Defence Images via Flickr When you first read this headline you get alarmed. Dont let it scare you from taking a Costa Rica Vacati...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Costa Rica: Two Independence Days?

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Every since Ive moved to Central America my first years being in Belize and Guatemala and the rest of my years being in Costa Rica I hav...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Costa Rica Bailouts: Arenal Hotels in La Fortuna...

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Don't even get me started on bailouts . I did not think my Costa Rican Travel blog would take me here but apparently it has. Just last ...

OIL IN COSTA RICA

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Hold up cowboys. Before every direct flight from the state of Texas to Costa Rica is filled (well atleast the first class seats I dont kno...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Costa Rica: Literacy Day Could Become More

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Image by Raymond Yee via Flickr I have been working in developing countries for years now and always making education a major part of wha...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

No to Condos at Lake Arenal Costa Rica

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Image via Wikipedia North American investors were planning to put some condos up at Lake Arenal , the home of the planets most active volc...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Adventure Tours in Costa Rica

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I happen to be a lover of outdoors and adventure. When it comes to picking the top 5 in Costa Rica I'm dealing with my personal favori...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Costa Rican Chess Champion

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Image via Wikipedia Here’s one for you: Who won the US Open Chess Championship this year? Answer: Alejandro Ramirez , from Costa Rica . ...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Rainforest Radio

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Image via Wikipedia Down on the Osa Peninsula , where it is hot and humid, a new AM radio station has come on the air. It sits high above ...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

One of the Nicest Species on the Planet

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Image by Costa Rican Resource via Flickr US companies are finding out that one of Costa Rica 's prime assets are its people. They are w...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The President's Plan

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Image via Wikipedia Costa Rica 's first woman President, Laura Chinchilla , unveiled her four-year plan . She wants to reduce poverty ,...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

University March

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Image via Wikipedia Once again Costa Rica showed the world it was a democracy . 10,000 students, faculty and administrators from Costa Ric...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

The New Ambassador

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Image via Wikipedia Who knows the name of the Costa Rican ambassador to the USA? She is Muni Figueres , daughter of former Costa Rican P...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Interesting Costa Rica Information

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Image via Wikipedia Here are some facts about Costa Rica that you might have missed: 1. Costa Rica abolished its army permanently in 194...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Costa Rican Astronaut

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Image via Wikipedia Did you know that Costa Rica had an astronaut ? His name is Franklin Chang, and he is a real hero here. Chang has made...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Costa Rica-China Relations

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Image via Wikipedia Michael Shifter , president of Inter-American Dialogue , does not think that there is anything unusual about Costa Ric...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

No, Not my Address!

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Image via Wikipedia The one thing you do not want to hear in Costa Rica is the question: “What’s your address?” Addresses in Costa Rica ...

The Dying Art of the Marimba

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Image via Wikipedia The marimba , a deep-toned xylophone , is the national instrument of Costa Rica . It came to this country by way of Afr...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Plazas, Plazas Everywhere

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Image by Wha'ppen via Flickr In Costa Rica every town has at least one church and across the street from the church is a plaza, or s...