When one thinks of a pejibaye, or peach palm fruit, most often their mind goes to the curious orange ball that has a dollop of mayo it. The Pejibaye Festival, now in its 21st year, reveals that this giving tree can be so much more. The Festival Every year around the end of September a
How to take great photos during your trip to Poas Volcano Poas Volcano is at a stunning 2600 meters or 8700 feet above sea level (our farm is 100 meters or 300 feet) The rim is almost a mile wide. As you can see from our images the weather and scene can vary greatly hour
The Cahuita National Park is the Caribbean Coast’s Best National Park The white sand beaches, palm tree canopies and well maintained jungle trail are a must for every traveler looking for the best that Costa Rica has to offer. Cahuita National Park is 45 minutes South from the Port City of Limon and a quick
Three of our articles about the Carnival (Carnaval as it is known here) in the port city of Limon Costa Rica were published by A.M. Costa Rica, an English language daily news source. They are all here, the most recent first, with some photos of the days festivities. If you plan on attending in future
Arenal Volcano, the youngest volcano in Costa Rica and easily the most active is surrounded by Arenal Lake at its West flank and Cerro Chato, an inactive volcano, at its East. The nearest town, La Fortuna, has everything a tourist needs and is heaven for back country folks like us. We stayed at Arenal Observatory
Our Rain Forest Aerial Tram Day. What we thought of the place. Every once in a while we are lucky enough to get away from the work of the farm and enjoy ourselves at one of Costa Rica’s many tourist attractions. Our friends had family visiting and invited us to go along to a place
Port of Moin now and how it might change in the future. We live about 30 min West of the Port of Moin. It’s our closest access to the Caribbean Sea. We go to Playa Bonita for birthday’s or anniversary’s because we can get a decent meal right next to the water. The waves roll over
2012 | Photography Exposition at the Antigua Aduana building in San Jose Costa Rica As a photography company in Costa Rica we were compelled to go to the Photography Exposition or Expo Foto near downtown San Jose. The Antigua Aduana (Old Customs) building was just right for such an event. There was attended parking for only $2, beautiful
Tortuguero is an amazing, relaxing and confusing little town on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. Tortuguero is a small town smack dab in the middle of the Caribbean Sea and a man made canal system. It exists on just a sliver of sandy soil and business is conducted mostly by water taxi and the
Biodiversity Park INBio in Heredia. We went for a mushroom festival and came out with so much more. A mushroom festival was mentioned in a local paper one day. It was going to be held at a place we had never heard of before, INBio Park. It peaked our interest because we had already started some shiitake plugs in a piece of a local tree (guachipelin) and
Matapalo Guanacaste, getting there during a violent strike in Limon. Arriving to find a seemingly friendly resort which is draining the local town of its water. “So let me get this straight. You want family photo’s taken of your vacation in Costa Rica at a big resort and you want to pay for us to
Barbilla National Park Limon Costa Rica – Parque Nacional Barbilla We have passed by the Barbilla National Park sign for years. It’s along the main route (32) that leads to our farm. The sign is brown with yellow letters very much like state park signs in the U.S. It reads Parque Nacional Barbilla 12 kms, 4×4 recommended
The International Arts Festival San Jose, Costa Rica. A long day but totally worth it. I had a hell of a time convincing friends we should go to the International Arts Festival in San Jose, Costa Rica this March. It takes us a long time to get there, gas is expensive, we have to stay all
Graffiti in Costa Rica – A Walk through San Jose One thing that I don’t see often out in the country where I live is graffiti. It’s not that it’s not there it’s just so few and far between that I may hardly notice. We took a walk through San Jose, the capital city and
Nuts and bolts on an abandoned train car in Nevada.
St. James Church Ruins Cartago, Costa Rica, a historic relic. The Headless Priest Legend According to a popular legend, there were two brothers who lived in colonial Cartago city. One of them was a single, nice and loved person and the other a priest. A rivalry arose between them as both fell in love with