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Real cute little guy - Costa Rica
Costa Rica 3 185, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
A mother and baby howler monkey in what we came to refer to as “the monkey tree”.
One really hot day when Maggie only wanted to relax on the beach I ventured further inland up a dusty road. I reached this tree that [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Tamarindo, Travel, animals, backpacking, bizzare, books, central America, crazy things, eco tourism in Costa Rica, environment, exploration, geography, holiday in Costa Rica, my life, nature, people, people in Costa Rica, photos, picture of, science, strange places, tours in Costa Rica, visiting Costa Rica, wierd on January 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Costa Rica 3 068, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Maggie fans herself with a pamphlet in the heat. We are in the Tamarindo estuary with Meeener as our guide. From the main channel we weave in deeper through the mangrove roots. There are plenty of alligators, sting rays and birds of every variety. We eventually reached a [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Costa Rica, Costa Rican bull fight, Education, Guanacaste, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Tamarindo, Travel, animals, backpacking, bizzare, bull fighter, bull fighting, central America, crazy things, environment, extreme sports, geography, hiking, holiday in Costa Rica, my life, nature, photos, picture of, sports, strange places, vicious bulls, visiting Costa Rica, wierd on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Bad attitude earns the big bucks.
Costa Rica 3 413, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
These are the bulls - the most ferocious in Central America. Guanacaste is famous for its bulls and these are the cream of the crop - killers every one of them. Guanacaste is especially well suited to raising cattle as its interior consists [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Costa Rica, Education, Interesting, Personal, Photography, Travel, articles, backpacking, bizzare, central America, commerce, crazy things, crime, crime in Costa Rica, culture, environment, exploration, geography, hiking, holiday in Costa Rica, my life, mystery, people, people in Costa Rica, photos, pickpockets, picture of, shopping, strange places, trade, urban exploration, wierd on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Witness my wife being pickpocketed - it makes an interesting picture.
P0000181, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This post had appeared on my other site - thetravelnet - but as it was too much to keep up I will repost it here for its informative value - would be visitors to the Mercado Central in San Jose - [...]
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Clothes ripped off by the bull - a greatly anticipated event - good humor!
Costa Rica 3 415, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
We were returning from a scorching afternoon on the Tempisque river, (I was gathering information for a travel article that is appearing at some time in the New Zealand Herald”. Our driver had a great [...]
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A Spanish lesson.
Costa Rica 3 255, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Up until this day, it had only threatened rain - brief sprinklings from a leaden blanket above - lilac flashes in the dry and dusty hills around Tamarindo but today it was different - the sky leaked water as though its belly had been slit - [...]
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Cloudburst in Tamarindo
Costa Rica 3 252, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
When it rains in Costa Rica - it really rains. At the beginning of the rainy season in Tamarindo the town quicky transforms from dry and dusty to wet and sloppy. After the first three rains the parched forest thereabouts begins oozing life from beneath the [...]
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