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Costa Rica Spirits Magazine Travel Reports
Nationalpark Gandoca-Manzanillo
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Der Geheimtipp für
Karibik-Freunde
Alleine am Strand entlang wandern, in noch unberührtem Urwald die Tierwelt beobachten und ihre vielfältigen Geräuschen lauschen, das erwartet die Besucher des Nationalparks Gandoca. 1985 wurde das 5000 Hektar große Areal zum Schutzgebiet erklärt, über 4000 Hektar davon sind Meeresfläche. Hier soll vor allem die einzigartige Mangroven-Muschelbank geschützt werden. Der Park beginnt beim Rio Cocoles und reicht dann über den Ort Manzanillo bis zur Grenze zu Panama.
Krokodile und Kaimane, Tapire, Schlangen, Nagetiere, und über 360 verschiedene Vogelarten gibt es zu bestaunen. Bei genauem Hinsehen kann man beim Wandern durch den tropischen Regenwald auch Faultiere in ihrer typischen „Bewegung“ sehen, wenn sie unter einem Baumast hängen. Mehrere Lagunen mit Süßwasserfischen liegen in dem Park, am Strand sind außer Mangroven auch Meeresschildkröten zu beobachten. Besonders im April ist die Zeit, in der man die riesigen Lederschildkröten bei der Eiablage sehen kann.
Und während es in vielen anderen Nationalparks Costa Ricas doch eher selten ist, dass der Besucher nur mit sich und der Tierwelt alleine ist, ist dies in Gandoca durchaus häufig. Und nach der Wanderung lockt ein erfrischendes Bad in der Karibik an einer der herrlichen Strände der Region um Cahuita und Puerto Vieja.
Der Nationalpark Gandoca liegt 240 km von San José entfernt. Mit dem Auto fährt man bis Limon und danach weiter über Puerto Viejo in Richtung Grenze nach Panama. Vom Ort Sixaola sind es noch ca.12 Km bis Gandoca.
Wer mit einem Bus von San José reisen möchte, kann dies mit der Busline „Caribenos“ tun. Sie fährt von der Ostseite des Museo de los Ninos ab. Die Fahrtzeit beträgt ca. 7 Stunden, ab Sixaola muss man ein Taxi nehmen.
Nosara Provides Natural Adventure and Sports
Slowly, the sun rises from behind the rolling hills. A light breeze rustles through the trees. Activities start early in the morning in Nosara, this seaside town situated in Guanacaste, about an hour's drive from Nicoya.
Walkers enjoy the atmosphere of the morning at Playa Guiones, with its sparkling whitecaps, glittering in the sunlight while surfers paddle out on their boards to catch the best waves. In the nature reserve of Lagarta Lodge, the first bird lovers are already on the way to take advantage of this time of the day for animal watching.
Esquinas Rainforest
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. ...
