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When world traveler Susan Money chooses where to stay on vacation, she prefers smaller family-run hotels. Not as small as a B&B, but preferably not a corporate establishment.

“I feel taken care of at a well-run corporate hotel or resort, but I like the friendships you create at smaller family-run hotels,” said Money. “This is especially important to me because I travel alone a lot.”

Money is a hotel owner herself, in Costa Rica. She runs her fabulous beachfront hotel on Santa Teresa Beach – Pran

Article by Shannon Farley

Continuing to be a favorite with world travelers, beaches and hotels in Costa Rica were named among the best in the world according to the latest TripAdvisor Traveler’s Choice Awards.

The popular global travel site announced on Feb. 18 its 2015 Travelers' Choice Awards for the best beaches and hotels in the world. The annual awards are based on traveler reviews gathered by TripAdvisor over the past 12 months. In addition to an over-all top 25 world winners list, top winne

Need to get from San Jose to the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica? Or from Guanacaste to the Monteverde cloud forest? How about from Arenal to the beach at Manuel Antonio?

Transportation in Costa Rica, unless you’ve booked a Costa Rica vacation package that includes transfers, can sometimes be complicated and expensive. Now there is a Costa Rica transportation solution that also makes your travel days fun.

Desafio Adventure Company offers Adventure Connections that take care of your transportation bet

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Halkidiki lies roughly one hour from Thessaloniki and is a beloved summer destination for many people from all over the world. The beaches of the region are picturesque, accessible and well set up for tourism - and the nightlife is just as appealing, with plenty of restaurants, Greek tavernas, bars, and clubs.

Ouranoupoli

The last station in Halkidiki before the visitor takes a ride with the boats that sail around Mount Athos. Coastal place, beautiful, with azure waters, Ouranoupoli cons

Kerala Holidays in Indian is the most popular vacationer getaway in Indian, this amazing getaway is in the the southeast part of Indian. More popularly called as The lord’s Own Country, this picturesque condition is located along the pink Arabian Sea which is located by the European Ghats from the other side. This condition is endowed by the bounteous points of interest and locations which truly are very value to check out and discover. This getaway in Indian encourages several vacationers from

For families, Costa Rica is a fun, safe and easy family vacation destination. Costa Rica was even voted this year’s most recommended travel hotspot!

Located in Central America, Costa Rica is easily accessible from North America and Europe with numerous daily flights to two international airports. It is one of the safest countries in the region, is affordable, focused on tourism, and English is widely spoken.

Costa Rica offers you sunny beaches, stunning rainforest, breathtaking volcanoes and mou

One of the amazing things about Costa Rica is that there are still remote, wild, little-known places to discover and enjoy … places to experience new adventures, beautiful scenery, fascinating nature and wildlife.

Maquenque Eco-Lodge in northern Costa Rica is one of those hidden places. The five-year-old Costa Rica eco-lodge is located in Boca Tapada in the hinterlands of northern Costa Rica, only 15 kilometers from the Nicaraguan border and that country’s vast Indio Maiz Biological Reserve. To

The southern Pacific Ocean off the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica is an amazing natural wonder of marine biodiversity, home to more than 25 species of dolphins and whales, four of the world’s eight different sea turtles, along with manta rays, sailfish, marlin, tuna and sharks. The southern Pacific, and especially Golfo Dulce (Sweet Gulf) on the eastern side of the Osa Peninsula, are vital breeding and reproducing areas for endangered hammerhead sharks and migrating endangered Humpback Whales.

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Chabil Mar Resort in Placencia, Belize announces the 2014 Jungle and Sea Belize Vacation Package Series. Choose from three premier jungle destination resorts, The Lodge at Chaa Creek, Ka'ana Boutique Resort or Amber Sunset Jungle Resort.

Each of these premier destinations offers a unique accommodation experience while nestled in the jungle of Cayo District of Belize. Enjoy, canoeing, horseback riding, zip lining, Maya excavation tours, cave swimming and tubing, jungle treks and the world's second

Meet sloths, kinkajous, tayras, ocelots, peccaries and anteaters. Stand next to Scarlet Macaws feeding on almond trees. Watch white-faced monkeys swing and play next to you, and have your heart melt when a spider monkey comes to hold your hand.

This isn’t some exotic zoo, but rather the Osa Wildlife Sanctuary on Golfo Dulce in the South Pacific of Costa Rica. The Costa Rica wildlife refuge helps orphaned and injured animals that are indigenous to this southern Pacific rainforest. Sadly, many of t

New Zealand is about as far from Costa Rica as you can get. That’s where 21 Costa Rican men and women are headed at the beginning of November to compete in the World Rafting Championships.

Set for November 13-24 in Rotorua, New Zealand, the biennial World Rafting Championships (WRC) will draw 69 teams from 27 countries to compete in four divisions with men’s and women’s categories – Open, Masters, Junior (under 23) and Youth (under 19).

The WRC is the pinnacle event in the highly-competitive white

All-inclusive resorts make vacation planning easy. Everything you need – place to stay, meals, activities, entertainment – is included in one price. You don’t have to worry about the details, hidden extras or going over budget. Going to an all-inclusive resort is truly a no-worry vacation.

All-inclusive resorts in Costa Rica have been around for years, but the concept is booming. Major international hotel chains are now in the country, and almost all of Costa Rica’s all-inclusive resorts are loca

Costa Rica has become a popular, easy and fun destination for Friends’ Trips for travelers from North America.

This hot travel destination usually appeals to the adventurous, and certainly Costa Rica is foremost for adventure travel. Whether a bachelor or bachelorette party group, guys’ trip, girlfriend getaway, or simply a group of friends looking for an entertaining, easy yet exotic vacation, Costa Rica delivers all you want.

So, why not grab your best friend, and escape to Costa Rica?

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National Parks of Costa Rica

Some of the most important national parks in Costa Rica include Corcovado National Park in the Osa Peninsula, Piedras Blancas National Park on the Golfo Dulce, Marino Ballena National Marine Park in Uvita, Manuel Antonio of course, Carara, La Amistad, which goes deep into Panama also, Chirripo, Hitoy Cerere, Tortuguero, Barra del Colorado, Maquenque, Cahuita, Gandoca Manzanillo, Los Quetzales, Monteverde, Arenal, Ostional, Cano Negro, Palo Verde, La Cangreja, Barra de

You definitely have to be up for an adventure to go kayaking in the ocean at night. At first, the experience can be a little unnerving. The slightest splash makes you jump. What was that? Shark? Fish? Whale? It was probably your own kayak paddle hitting the water, but the fact that you can’t see well puts you on edge.

We humans are better adapted visually for daylight than nighttime. But when you let your eyes adjust to the dusk – and relax – an entirely new spellbinding world opens up. As if by

I do not know what it is with us people living on the plains – many among us have this insane urge to go visit the mountains in winter, as if the cold in the plains was not enough. And so it was with me…. Wifey wanted to see the Taj Mahal, I wanted to build a snow-man and so we went from Agra to Auli in the last week of December. A poorly designed trip it was – we ended up sitting in a car and rushing through the country-side much more than we had bargained for, only doing a spot of sight-seeing

Costa Rica’s amazing natural attractions make it an incomparable vacation destination. You’re in paradise here in the tropics with lush rainforest, active volcanoes, spectacular mountain ranges and valleys, and endless beaches on both Pacific and Caribbean coasts.

Domestic flights are the perfect option for travelers who want to visit as many places in Costa Rica as possible in a short amount of time. Plus, you get a beautiful aerial view of the landscape. Costa Rica is a rugged country of peaks

Del Mar Surfing Academy is one of the top surf schools in Costa Rica for teens (ages 13-19). Its sister company Del Mar Surf Camp runs surf vacations, yoga-surf retreats, and day surf lessons for adults. Del Mar Surfing Academy’s instructors lead safe surf and cultural/language immersion camps for teens in Costa Rica. They guarantee the highest quality surf lessons with a 2:1 student to teacher ratio for undivided attention and maximum safety. Native Costa Rican instructors all hold Internationa

Tantric Yoga is kind of touchy.

The ancient Hindu practice gets a lot of press for its sexual image. However, if you delve deeper than the popular hype, you find that the 1,600-year-old ritual is not concerned with sexuality, but rather the goal of Tantric Yoga is to awaken and harmonize the male and female aspects within each person on a spiritual level, according to Yoga World.

There are so many different elements and schools of thought on Tantric Yoga that I started researching and was quickly