Costa Rica area: peoples safety, staying safe in public places

Costa Rica area: peoples safety, hospitals, change money, stay safe in public places! Staying Healthy in Costa Rica __ The public system has much longer waits, while the private system has shorter waits. __ There have been outbreaks of dengue fever in some areas of the country and an outbreak of malaria was reported in [...]

August Update

As some of you may know, I’ve delayed my attempt to break the speed record for circumnavigating Vancouver Island until next summer, but currently there’s someone else vying to circle the Island in record time.
On August 19th, Joe O’Blenis of Thunder Bay, Ontario departed from Nanaimo in a sea kayak hoping to reclaim his [...]

Featured Expedition: Frank Wolf voyages the Enbridge pipeline

Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan are hiking, biking, rafting and kayaking the 1,172 km route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline through Alberta and British Columbia in order to get a first hand account of the impact the project will have.
On July 10th they cycled out of Fort McMurray, the source of the oil that will [...]

Costa Rica Spanish schools, learn Spanish language, Student offers and locations

Costa Rica Spanish schools, learn Spanish language,  Student offers and locations  You can learn Spanish in Costa Rica! –  Langauge schools typically offer only Spanish to foreign students from the United States and Europe but some, including the Instituto Norte Americano in Heredia, offer Spanish to foreign students, and English and Mandarin to local ones. –  There [...]

Costa Rica Phone and Calling Cards using chips/sim

Costa Rica Phone and Calling Cards using chipsand sim cards. About available  internet international services, country codes, pay/coin phones, sim cell phones numbers, swipe, accept, allow, email, price, domestic, roaming, handsets, prepaid coverage, country monopoly The international calling code/country code for Costa Rica is 506. A postage stamp to Europe is 125 Colones (around 21 [...]

Bus travel thefts, best travel tips

Bus travel  best tips for preventing thefts while travelling on Costa Rica buses —  Trust your gut feeling with new friends – most are great, but some may be con artists! Traveling with a friend makes the journey more entertaining and more fun. —  Even if all your other belongings are stolen, you would still [...]