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Turn the pages of the guide.
 
What is a Personal Planner?
Other Resources
Costa Rica Tourism, by
Inter@merica: Plenty of well-presented information.
Ana's Welcome to Costa
Rica: Poems, history, recipes and more from a Costa Rican living in the
States. What else would you want?
The
Butterfly Farm: Take a two-hour tour of this large enclosed
walk-through garden of flying flowers.
Photo Tips:
Don't come back empty-handed because your glasses fogged up.
Surfing
Costa Rica: For those who go in for that other kind of surfing.
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The Berkeley Guides:
Berkeley Guide to Central America:
Costa Rica
By Michele Back and Olivia Barry
Costa Rica grabs the attention of travelers from around the world for good reason. Very few places on earth offer everything that this tiny country about the size of West Virginia does; you'll find blue morpho butterflies the size of your hand, enchanting beaches, sulfur springs, and vistas verging on orgasmic. Costa Rica is the easiest Central American country to travel in: It has an amazingly stable social and political environment, and its economy has been transformed by North American capitalist culture. Not surprisingly, those accustomed to the rich indigenous culture of Guatemala or the provoking political climate of Nicaragua or El Salvador may be turned off, even bored. "It's not really a Latin American country, it's more like the midwestern United States," an exchange student from California commented. Actually, Costa Rica is very Latin American. It just takes time and effort to see through all the commercialism to the heritage of a Guanacastan cowboy, the Meseta Central farmers, and the rich Caribbean culture.
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