Click to see a little larger and thus easier to read. It may be that only people who live here or travel in Costa Rica a lot can appreciate the broad variety of places I have visited in 3 years and this is only the big name places like National Parks. There are so many little towns and places I have visited like Zarcero, Sarchi, Pura Vida Gardens, La Paz Gardens, Zoo Ave, waterfalls, fiestas, farm tours, etc. that simply won’t fit on this little map! Continuous adventure!
I am so fortunate to live in such a beautiful natural place with so much to see and photograph! I love it here! And I enjoy every moment of every day whether traveling, sitting in my garden, or waiting in some long, slow government line. ¡Pura Vida!
AND ADDING TO THE MAP THIS YEAR:
I earlier listed some of the places scheduled for my visits the next few months and now I have extended the list for one trip every month through next February 2019. So if any of you guys in the states want to visit, you will have to work around my trips or join me on one of them! 🙂 I have a trip-a-month for May through February with reservations for places that will help fill in the white spaces on the above map with 4 repeats:
I earlier listed some of the places scheduled for my visits the next few months and now I have extended the list for one trip every month through next February 2019. So if any of you guys in the states want to visit, you will have to work around my trips or join me on one of them! 🙂 I have a trip-a-month for May through February with reservations for places that will help fill in the white spaces on the above map with 4 repeats:
- Arenal Observatory, Arenal NP, a “best birding place” – May
- Tranquilo Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama – June
- Xandari Resort in the cloud forest north of Atenas – July
- Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiqui (repeat fav lodge) – August
- Banana Azul in South Caribe (the other repeat lodge) – September
- Esquinas Rainforest Lodge, Piedras Blancas NP – October
- Estancia Rancho Humo, Palo Verde NP – November
- Si Como No Resort, Manuel Antonio NP (repeat park, new lodge) – December
- Manquenque Ecolodge, Boca del Tapada near Pital on Rio San Carlos (a new wild rainforest & wetlands) Sleeping in a treehouse for the first time! A top birding place seldom seen by most tourists. – January
- Turtle Beach Lodge, Tortuguero NP (repeat park, new lodge) – February
It promises to be my best “bucket list” year yet here in Costa Rica and I’m doing exactly what I planned to do when I made the decision to move here in retirement for these final “golden years” of life! (The “decision process” was documented earlier on this blog, starting with my first post, June 26, 2014.) Wonderful decision! (Not fully made until September that year.) As my friend Bill Peters at LifeWay used to say: “Every day’s a holiday and every week’s a vacation!” (In jest about working at LifeWay) But when you retire in Costa Rica that is almost true! ☺
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| Copied from a blog of an expat living in Jaco, Costa Rica. 🙂 |
¡Pura Vida!