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Popular General Tips | Miscellaneous General Tips Tips | All Tips (332) Almost perfect. 280 days of rain a year. Stifling heat and humidity. Cool and damp with delicate tendrils of fog drifting through the trees. It all depends on where you happen to be. The country is small (it almost doesn't show up on my VT travel map) but it encompasses many different climate zones.
San Jose was always partly cloudy and about 70 degrees (fahrenheit) as we passed through town or stayed overnight. The cloud forests at Monte Verde and Santa Elena were cool reaching highs only in the lower 60s. The Caribbean coast was hot but extremely wet--almost constant rain. The far reaches of the douthwest Pacific penninsula of Osa was too hot with temps soaring into the mid 90s. Yet we never were more than about 100 miles from the capital city of San Jose. A very odd country for weather. Leave a Comment
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I was recommended a few web sites before my trip and thought you might benefit from them. I used them all, for different aspect of our trip, from finding a hotel to learning about the country or the weather...!
General, Latin America: www.americas-fr.com
They send you free magazines for 6 months if you tell them your trip plan or make an itinerary for you according to your plan: www.costaricaexpeditions.comr />
Tourism: www.tourism.co.cr
Tourism: www.infocostarica.com
Tourism: www.visitcostarica.com
Tourism: http://centralamerica.com/crr /> Tourism: www.costaricanet.net
Hotels: www.hotels.co.cr
Fishing: www.costaricaoutdoors.com
Maps: www.itmb.com
Birds: www.ots.ac.cr
Birds: www.cloudforestalive.org
National park: www.inbio.ac.cr/en/default.html
National park: www.minae.go.cr
National park: www.sinac.go.cr/inicio/index.html
Tico Time, newspaper: www.ticotimes.net
Sights and sounds of Costa Rica (really nice!!): www.naturesongs.com/CRsounds.html
Jaco: www.jaco-online.com
Quepos: www.quepos-info.com/
Quepos: www.passplanet.com/Costa_rica/quepos.htm Leave a Comment
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A troop of Howler Monkeys lived in the woods very close to our condo. Every morning at 4 am I would hear them strart howling. Again about dusk we would hear them again.
I love that sound and really missed it when we left.
One day we had gone for a walk. We heard something stir so we stopped. A short distance in front of us we spotted this Howler Monkey sitting on a branch in a tree. Leave a Comment
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Since so many people always ask about Costa rica weather here is a description taken from a costa rica weather page...
Rain is a fact of life in Costa Rica. Annual precipitation averages 250 cm (100 inches) nationwide. Depending on the region, the majority of this may fall in relatively few days--sometimes fewer than 15 per year.
. The mountains, by contrast, often exceed 385 cm (150 inches) per year, sometimes as much as 7.6 meters (25 feet) on the more exposed easterly facing slopes. And don't expect to stay dry in the montane rainforests; even on the sunniest days, the humid forests produce their own internal rain as water vapor condenses on the cool leaves and falls.
Generally, rains occur in the early afternoons in the highlands, midafternoons in the Pacific lowlands, and late afternoons (and commonly during the night) in the Atlantic lowlands. Sometimes it falls in sudden torrents called aguaceros, sometimes it falls hard and steady, and sometimes it sheets down without letup for several days and nights.
Dry season on the Meseta Central and throughout the western regions is December through April. In Guanacaste, the dry season usually lingers slightly longer; the northwest coast (the driest part of the country) often has few rainy days even during wet season. On the Atlantic coast, the so-called dry season occurs January-April.
Even in the rainy season, days often start out warm and sunny, although temporales (morning rainfall) are not uncommon, it may not even rain at all some days..
In the highlands, rainy season usually brings an hour or two of rain midafternoon. Still, be prepared: 23 hours of a given day may be dry and pleasant; during the 24th, the rain can come down with the force of a waterfall. The sudden onset of a relatively dry period, called veranillo (little summer), sometimes occurs July-August or August-September, particularly along the Pacific coast.
Every thing, anyone traveling to costa rica or planning a trip there, enjoy ............. Leave a Comment
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Costa Rica is home to some of the oldest coffee plantations in the world and it is said that the country produces some of the smoothest coffee available. I have to confess ignorance since I do not drink coffee. I'm also led to understand that if you wish to taste the mellow Costa Rican coffee blends that you are better off traveling to Montana in the United States than to Costa Rica itself. Apparently, the best coffee is exported, while the lower grade stuff is available domestically. Leave a Comment
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Costa Ricans have an immense pride in their country. Rightly so. They don't do things just because very other country does it a certain way. The abolishment of the military is a great example. But Costa Rica is also a country of equality. A country that has a history of free elections and a country that does not tolerate scandalous governments or rigged elections. While there are certainly great disparities in income in Costa Rica, it is the country in Latin America that has the most equal of income distributions. And in general, education and health care services are available to all. So, yes, there are shantytowns in San Jose and poor villages dot the countryside, but homelessness and outright hunger are not on display as in other countries in the region. Leave a Comment
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