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Hotel Viña Romántica – Alajuela, Costa Rica
March 31st, 2010 | 
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Hotel Viña Romántica – We’ve been expecting you, Boutique Hotel & Restaurant in Alajuela, Costa Rica with beautiful views of Poas Volcano and surrounding coffee plantations, perfect for Honeymoon couples, romantic getaway.
For more information log on to: http://www.vinaromantica.com
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El Pueblo in San Jose Costa Rica PARTY TIME!
El Pueblo is a GREAT place to experience Costa Rican nightlife. This old Spanish village is a complex of souvenir shops, bars, clubs, and restaurants. El Pueblo is located just across the river to the north of town and the BEST way to get there is by taxi (and as always- if you’re PARTYING, we always recommend using taxi’s, regardless of your rental car situation.
In El Pueblo, there’s a bar or club for just about anyone’s tastes. Dancing, conversation, drinking- you name it- it’s in El Pueblo. This place gets PACKED at night, so if you’re looking for something to do, you can’t go wrong here and there’s plenty of restaurants to choose from as well.
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San Jose Costa Rica Sabana Park
La Sabana Park or Parque La Sabana is easily located on any map of San Jose. It is located at the western end of Paseo Colon. Back in the day this used to be San Jose’s international airport. This is the perfect place to spend the afternoon and immerse yourself in Tico culture as this is the city’s center for active sports and recreation. Here you’ll find everything from jogging trails, soccer fields, basketball courts and even a few public tennis courts. All the facilities in La Sabana are open to the public.
Parque La Sabana is where Tico families gather for picnics, kite flying, fishing and overall socializing with friends and family, and there’s even an outdoor sculpture garden. This is just a GREAT place to experience local culture and maybe even a good reminder on how the simple pleasures in LIFE are often the BEST… there’s not a PlayStation in site.
Check out our video of La Sabana and if you got an hour or two we would recommend a stroll through the park. We would also recommend you leave this park before dusk and AVOID it all together during the night time hours when the sketchier characters of San Jose come out to play… and they don’t seem interested in a pick-up game of soccer.
For more helpful travel information on Costa Rica make sure you check out our website and our blog.
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Lots more travel tips on video by us – http://travelcostaricanow.com/index.php/Costa_Rica_Travel_Videos
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GAY Protest- Gran Hotel Costa Rica Discriminates!
GAY Protest held outside the entrance of the Gran Hotel Costa Rica and next to the National Theater. It appears GRAND Hotel Costa Rica may want to consider providing its Security Staff with Sensitivity Training, or perhaps a Review of the current Costa Rican LAWS on the Books regarding the discrimination of Gays. Basically, two lesbians accuse the Security Staff of the Gran Hotel Costa Rica for harassing and discriminating against them for kissing outside the hotel in the square. The kicker, apparently it wasn’t even a ‘making-out’ type of kissing. How boring is that? Well these lesbians weren’t going to take it, so they got their gay ‘family’ and friends to stage a protest outside the Gran Hotel. It was very nice to see a good turn-out and BEST of all, many ‘younger’ gay Tico’s were present of show their SUPPORT. Now that’s what I call a step in the right direction.
For more helpful travel information on Costa Rica make sure you check out our website and our blog.
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michael alan’s blog – http://www.DoingCostaRica.blogspot.com/
Our pictures from around Costa Rica – http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelcostaricanow_com/
Our Gay Travel Tip Webpage – http://travelcostaricanow.com/index.php/Gay
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Lots more travel tips on video by us – http://travelcostaricanow.com/index.php/Costa_Rica_Travel_Videos
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Villa Pacande
Located in Itiquis of Alajuela, Costa Rica, near the Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO Airport), on the road to Poas Volcano national Park
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Poas Volcano, Grecia & Sarchi. Costa Rica.
We take the Pan-American Highway towards the city of Alajuela. In this route we pass by the Agriculture Monument, the Monument to Juan Santamaria and the famous Mango Park. As we ascend towards the volcano we stop for a brief explanation on our golden bean, coffee, and then continue our trip through fern, flower and strawberry farms.
There is a noticeable change in temperature and vegetation, preparing us for the pleasure in the exuberant cloud forest of Poas Volcano.
In the Volcano we will have time to enjoy the impressive main crater with its sulfur fumaroles, and hike on a trail to the beautiful Botos Lagoon. We will learn about the different ecosystems in the park. After visiting the volcano, we will have time to enjoy a delicious lunch in one of the typical restaurants of the area.
Our third stop will be in the beautiful Grecia. Considered one of the cleanest towns of Latin America, it is home of the only Metal Church in Central America and a of national monument that fills its inhabitants with pride. In order to catch a glimpse of the local lifestyle we will also visit the central market area.
Our last stop is on Sarchi, known as the Cradle of Costa Rican Artisans because of its fine workshops. Here we will have time to enjoy the artistic work of the local artisans as they create the famous typical oxcart. You will be able to shop for that special souvenir to take home.
Suggested Equipment: light jacket, comfortable shoes, binoculars and camera.
Green Stone Adventures is a company dedicated to organize and sell globally tourist services in Costa Rica.
We are specialized in customized packages. Also we reserve hotels, journeys, tours, domestic flight, rent a car, private and semi-private ground transportation.
More information: http://www.GreenStone.co.cr
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Colours Oasis Resort San Jose Costa Rica REVIEW
Colours Oasis is a GAY but very ‘Straight-friendly’ resort in San Jose Costa Rica. Located in the Barrio Rohrmoser, which is just a short cab ride to the middle of downtown San Jose where all the major attractions are located: museums, markets, the National Theatre, shopping, as well as the gay bars like La Avispa, Club Oh, Pucho’s, and Bochinche. Gay friendly restaurants such as Cafe Mundo are within walking distance, and gay saunas are also in close proximity. You’ll want to stay at least 2-3 nights at Colours Oasis to take in all the hotel has to offer, such as the solar heated pool, secluded jacuzzi, a spacious sun bathing terrace, exercise room that doubles as a computer room, a beautiful patio garden complete with exotic birds, and a Great bar where everyone seems to meet for Happy Hour. Check out this GAY Hotel review from D’Angelo and michael alan from Travel Costa Rica NOW and see the many reasons the gay traveler as well as the ‘cooler’ straight travelers would be making a BIG mistake if they didn’t spend a few nights at the Colours Oasis Resort.
For more helpful travel information on Costa Rica make sure you check out our website and our blog.
Our Travel Tip Website- http://www.TravelCostaRicaNow.com
michael alan’s blog – http://www.DoingCostaRica.blogspot.com/
Our pictures from around Costa Rica – http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelcostaricanow_com/
Our Gay Travel Tip Webpage – http://travelcostaricanow.com/index.php/Gay
michael alan’s gay blog – http://www.DoinGayCostaRica.blogspot.com
Lots more travel tips on video by us – http://travelcostaricanow.com/index.php/Costa_Rica_Travel_Videos
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Costa Rica National Parks Iphone App
Costa Rica National Parks App is the perfect offline reference guide for a traveller to discover the many fascinating and charming national parks of Costa Rica. It provides useful information on 27 National Parks in this beautiful country: scenic pictures, location, nearest city, area, creation date, flora, fauna and history.
Our App also integrates Google Maps (requires 3G or WiFi) allowing you to: see the location of each National Park on the map; search for cities, towns and points of interest (with automatic filtering for Costa Rican results), determine your current location and switch between standard, satellite and hybrid map views. If no search results are found, the App provides you a one click option to perform the same search through iPhones Maps App, which will automatically focus the search near the current point of interest. The map also display the distance of the national park from your current location.
A picture speaks a thousand words. Thats why Costa Rica National Parks App has the biggest photo collection of Costa Rica among the Apps available in the App Store. The photo album showcase pictures of Arts and Craft, Buildings, Festivals and Celebrations, Local Food, Golf and Country Clubs, National Parks and People. Each photo is also tag with a description to give you more information about what you are seeing.
Through our App, you will also find information on just about everything you need to know about Costa Rica. You will learn about Costa Ricas history, geography, flora and fauna, politics, provinces, economy, national parks, demographics and culture. When you travel to Costa Rica, it is always a good idea to have some good Costa Rica information at your fingertips.
This App is truly indispensable to anyone who wish to visit Costa Rica National Parks and experience the best that Costa Rica has to offer. If you are planning to travel to Costa Rica for your next adventure vacation, be sure to download our app.
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Gaia Hotel Reserve Manuel Antonio Costa Rica
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Hey Everyone, we got a chance to stay a couple nights at the Gaia Hotel and Reserve in Manuel Antonio Costa Rica. http://GaiaHR.com Folks, this is a 5-Star, ADULT ONLY hotel and resort. Quite funny actually, the night before we were at Tranquilo Backpackers in San Jose- reviewing that and some of the other hostels in the San Jose area. The next night, Gaia in Manuel Antonio. So, does this 5-star hotel live up to its status? I gotta say we were thinking Gaia may be a little pretentious, after all, studio’s and villa’s start at about $220 and go up to about $900. Don’t get me wrong, we appreciate 500,000+ thread count and flat screen tv’s as much as anyone, and they DO have a 12 acre Reserve with rare wildlife and lush vegetation on the property. But what about the pretentiousness? Would they be snooty? Well, Check this video out and see if the Gaia Hotel and Reserve meet OUR standards of 5-Star… without the ATTITUDE.
For more helpful travel information on Costa Rica make sure you check out our website and our blog.
Our Travel Tip Website- http://TravelCostaRicaNow.com/
michael alan’s blog – http://www.DoingCostaRica.blogspot.com/
Our pictures from around Costa Rica – http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelcostaricanow_com/
Our Gay Travel Tip Webpage – http://travelcostaricanow.com/index.php/Gay
michael alan’s gay blog – http://www.DoinGayCostaRica.blogspot.com
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