Costa Rica Genie

I wound up having time to go to the Irazu Volcano after I was done with Guayabo National Park.

People voted the most for Guayabo National Park so that is where I went. Guayabo contains a village that is over two thousand years old. It was settled by people from South America. It has an aqueduct, cobbled roads and carvings. It is a very impressive and beautiful place situated between two rivers. [...]

A few snippets from the Folkloric Dance Festival. I will upload something longer later.

Hacienda Baru is a couple of miles north of Dominical. It is a wildlife preserve. I love places like this. I enjoy being out in nature and in a place like this there is so much to see. This is the first of two videos.

Here is the second video of the park. I have a lot more video than I have time to upload. Internet service here is intermittent and not as fast as the US. I am grateful though that they do have broadband internet here. It has only been in service for a year and it is [...]

Here is the first of the videos of the Manuel Antonio National Park. I hope you don’t mind me splitting the park into a few videos. I won’t bore you with technical details but it’s better to make short videos down here than long ones. You can ask me any questions you want as [...]

Here is a good place to get some good tipico food and watch the waves as you eat.

Here is some video of the beach house where I stayed in Manuel Antonio. We went for a drink to the hotel next door that is high on a hill with an incredible view.
This is a great time to go this area. Tourism is down because of the fear back in the United States. [...]

The video above is of the Coca Cola bus station in downtown San Jose.I came back from Puerto Viejo and arrived at the Caribbean bus station first. I did not take video because it is a newer, safer, better marked station and I was in a real hurry to get to the Coca Cola and [...]

It’s been a few days but I moved from the Atlantic to the Pacific side and I visited some family over the weekend. Here is the video for Cahuita. When I was on the Atlantic side I offered Cahuita and Manzanillo as sidetrips. The majority of the votes were for Cahuita so there I went.
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