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Submit To DiggMost grouping opt Costa Rica as a pass instruction for the hearty sunny defy and the foppish beaches. However, there are numerous another activities in Costa Rica that module wage you with the pass of a lifetime. This is a land rish in scenery, wildlife, biology and more.


  1. Canopy Tour. Take a canopy journeying of the Monteverde rainforest.on Sky Trek. This is a canopy journeying with a disagreement because it is on a large bit than another tours of this nature in another countries. There are more fix lines, platforms and support bridges. You don&t requirement whatever limited active knowledge to verify this journeying as the guides module attain trusty you hit the equipment on right and intend you started from apiece platform. You crapper also pay more instance at apiece kibosh than the rest of the grouping attractive the tour, which allows you to make your state to your needs.
  2. Coffee settlement Tour. Since drink is a bounteous playing in Costa Rica, you can’t yield without attractive a journeying of a employed plantation and relishing the enthusiastic coffee. You crapper easily hold a period journeying from San Jose to the drink ontogeny location of the Central Valley, but much tours are acquirable anywhere that drink is grown in the country. The journeying starts with a achievement around the plantation with a pass explaining the impact of production. You crapper discernment the drink at the plantation and acquire samples to verify backwards bag with you.
  3. Culinary Tours. Get an brainwave into the culinary tastes of Costa Rica with digit of individual tours. At the Monteverde Cheese Factory you module wager most the story of the Quaker&s in the land and farm farming. See the mallow existence prefabricated and then discernment whatever of the delights. If you poverty to wager most the ontogeny of macadamia nuts, then you crapper verify a journeying of Finca La Anita in Miravalles, Guanacaste, where you module savor a meal and a canopy tour. Just right Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, you crapper verify a journeying of a drink plantation and wager how the beans are ease harvested in the tralatitious manner.
  4. Surfing and Windsurfing. The breaks soured the beaches of Costa Rica are famous every over the concern and entertainer thousands of surfers. Even if you don’t surf, you module hit an pleasant instance watching those that do. In the midland region, Lake Arenal has stabilize humour and twine speeds of most 40 kph, which makes for delicate windsurfing conditions.
  5. Volcano Watching. At Arenal Volcano National Park, you module hit the possibleness to check the most impressive cleft in the country. Night instance is the prizewinning instance for watch the flushed blistering tree and cinders that expel from the representative of the volcano. Eruptions are the important attraction, but it is doable that you won’t wager whatever if there is a aggregation of darken cover. There are construction identify lodges that substance improvement so that you crapper intend the prizewinning analyse and hit the prizewinning quantity of range the range of a period on your vacation.

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The recently completed JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa will receive a very special guest on Wednesday night.  The president of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize Winner Oscar Arias will be traveling to Hacienda Pinilla to inaugurate the newest 5 star resort in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

The JW Marriott is located in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste on a secluded beach in the North Pacific Coast.  The resort is made up of 310 luxurious guest rooms and 20 deluxe one-bedroom suites.  The 25,000 sq. ft. pool offers a variety of ambiances for the family as well as private coves for couples.

The Spa at the JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa offers world class treatment at its 10 rooms, 2 vichy shower rooms and 6 outdoor palapas for relaxing massages.  The Spa also includes a beauty parlor as well as a gym equipped with the latest technology.

For the golf enthusiast, an 18-hole golf course is located near the resort and offers its guests magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean while putting golf skills to test.

The location of the JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa is also very convenient for those who seek adventure and sight seeing.  Guanacaste has a variety of adventure tours and protected national parks.  One of the most visited is the Rincon de la Vieja National Park.

The Rincon de la Vieja National Park is home to the volcano with the same name and offers visitors an exciting experience.  Well kept trails will guide visitors through lush vegetation, boiling mud pots, vapor vents, waterfalls and breathtaking views.

The Santa Rosa National Park is also nearby and protects a variety of monkey species and other wildlife while preserving the historic structure of La Casona where a group of Costa Rican farmers defeated the invading forces of William Walker in 1856.

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The exclusive collection of Enchanting Hotels of Costa Rica, will be participating with an own booth at this year’s ITB (Internationale Tourismus Börse), taking place in Berlin, Germany March 11 – 15, 2009. The ITB is world largest and most important tourist fair and benefit the participation suppliers, such as the Costa Rican Hotels, which are proud members of Enchanting Hotels, one-on-one with the ever-growing, yet hard-to-reach audience of European Travel Professionals.

Enchanting Hotels is a prestigious, though young hotel franchise, belonging to Profimercadeo, whose manager is the renowned, professional and well experienced marketing expert Daniel Chavarria. It groups some of the most exclusive Costa Rican hotels and prime tours, such as Hotel Montaña de Fuego at the National Park & Volcano Arenal, Hotel L’Acqua Viva at Guiones, Nosara Beach, both in Guanacaste, Hotel Manatus in Tortuguero, on the North Caribbean Coast, Hotel El Paso de Las Lapas in Jaco Beach, and Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge at Golfo Dulce Osa Conservation Region.  Part of this exclusive group are also with beach location, the Hotel Ecoplaya at Salinas Bay or Isla Bolaños Natural Wildlife Refuge & Esencia Hotel at the stars Beach Santa Teresa & Malpaís.

With this aggressive strategic action, Enchanting Hotel hopes to penetrate an important market niche of over 20,000 participants at this important tourist fair.  This enchanting group of Costa Rican Hotels is focused in bringing an important business share from those attractive sales figures. The whole world meets at ITB Berlin: People, working in the travel industry and people, who want to catch up on the most beautiful travel destinations. The combination of trade exhibition, public exhibition and the biggest professional convention worldwide attracts tens of thousands of visitors, exhibitors and media representatives every year.

Enchanting Hotels will be the only Costa Rica booth at the Pavillion 4 of this Expo, which is dedicated to Youth, Adventure and Ecotourism, so they hope its participation will yield an important competitive advantage, for those leading Hotels from Costa Rica.

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To face the effects of the world economic crisis on tourism in the country, tourism officials say they have their eyes on Europeans, especially Spanish tourists and as such will be on the hunt for them as a replacement to the dwindling number of American tourists.

The Cámara Nacional de Turismo de Costa Rica (Canatur) announced yesterday that it will take part in the Feria Internacional de Turismo Fitur 2009 being held in Madrid, Spain, beginning today and runs until February 1.

The recession in the United States has forced Costa Rican tourism officials to promote the country in other markets.

“In these times we cannot anymore trust the North American market, less be dependent on, for such we have strengthen our presence in the European market”, said Gonzalo Vargas, president of the Canatur.

Costa Rica will be sharing a spot in the Central American booth at the Fair. Each Central American country will have enough space to promote themselves separately from the others.

Joining Canatur at the Fitur 2009 fair will also be the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT) - Costa Rican tourism ministry - as well as a number of private tourism operators, promoting tours, hotel and car rental services and travel agencies.

This is the 19th edition of Fitur and includes some 1.500 exhibitors from 170 countries.

FITUR is the leading tourism tradeshow for Spanish speaking world, it’s the key to doing business with Spain, Mediterranean Europe and well represented with buyers from Latin America.

During the 5 day fair, Madrid will turn into the world capital city for tourism.

Article thanks to Top10CostaRica

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Poas Volcano Crater

After remaining closed over a week after the 6.2 earthquake that struck the area on January 8th, 2009, the Poas Volcano National Park has reopened to the public starting Tuesday January 20th.

None of the buildings at the Poas Volcano National Park were harmed during the earthquake.  However, authorities closed the park after the National Emergency Committee requested them to do so in order to leave the roads free of traffic so that rescue teams and volunteers could freely transit the region..

The Poas Volcano is one of the most visited volcanoes in Costa Rica’s Central Valley as it exhibits two magnificent craters.  One of the craters is called the Lake Botos as it has been filled up by nature by deep blue waters.  The other crater has a diameter of 1.5 kilometers and holds a medium sized lake that sends out boiling sulphurous gases.

The trip to the volcano unfolds exuberant vegetation and several acres of coffee plantations that are abundant in the region.  Several tour operators offer a combination of a visit to the Poas Volcano with a visit to a local coffee plantation.

Visitors are guided through the Coffee Plantation as they learn all about the plant and the weather conditions needed for its perfect growth.  The guide then proceeds to explain the entire process from the moment the coffee bean is picked to the moment when a delicious hot cup of coffee is placed on the table.

Lunch is normally served at the Coffee Plantation as guests overlook the lush green mountains of the Central Valley while enjoying a typical Costa Rican dish.

Hotels in the area are normally lodges that also function as a diary farm.  Spending the night in the cloud forest and waking up to the sounds of a diary farm is an experience that should not be missed.

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