Birds in Paradise – Costa Rica
Migrating birds from two hemispheres meet the endemic residents in the middle – in incomparable Costa Rica. Perhaps nowhere else on earth offers you a better opportunity to see birds from both hemispheres in one place. Depending on the time of year that you travel you’ll be immersed in a kaleidoscope of plumage – not only from the colourful endemic species but also by the visitors from each continent – either...
Costa Kaleidoscope
Costa Rica offers one of the most diverse, stable, peaceful and colourful destinations that you’ll find anywhere on the planet – thanks in part to having abolished its standing army many years ago. From occupation by the Spanish Conquistadors who named it the ‘Rich Coast’ to the bloodshed and turmoil of civil war throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, its little wonder that by 1947 this little...
Nuestra Casa – Costa Rica
Admire – and perhaps envy – our guest writer Patrick Goodness’ life at home in Costa Rica If I close my eyes tight enough and strain the limits of my memory, I can almost remember the tiny details of my life before I moved our little family to a new future in Costa Rica. It’s been ten years since we left our cozy neighborhood in Antioch, Illinois, a small-town Chicago suburb. With two small children in tow, we decided that...
The High-life or Wildlife – book it with TLC World
Bring back the ‘tingle’ to worldwide travel – especially in India, Sri Lanka and throughout Africa, South & Central America and Southeast Asia including Japan – create your next luxury holiday with TLC World A range of example itineraries to get you started Looking for new ideas, or have something special in mind? There are literally hundreds of wonderful ways that we...
Contemplating Costa Rica
The more we think back to what we did in Costa Rica, the more I think we enjoyed it. I say, think, because whilst there we learned of the tragic accidental death of a very close relative which put our trip very much under a cloud. That said, I think the whole of our travels in Costa Rica were under a cloud as the weather, (being a tropical climate) and the terrain (that goes from coastal rainforest to highland volcanoes) seemed to...
