Month: February 2023
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Buenos Aires
The plane landed at about 5am local time, and I groggily made my way through immigration and customs. On the plane I had met an architecture student from El Salvador; he was on the way back from christmas break as he studies at the University of La Plata (45 minute drive from the Buenos Aires…
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Nicoya Peninsula (Pacific Coast)
After exploring some areas around the Turrialba area, I headed down to Montezuma on the Pacific Coast. The Nicoya Peninsula is the large body of land in the westernmost part of the coast, and it’s faster to take a ferry across than to drive all the way around the gulf. I was headed there to…
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Turrialba
Here are some photos from the area around the Turrialba Volcano. Photo-heavy, text-light. More to come about my time on the Nicoya Peninsula in the next post! There are some pictures. I’m headed out of Costa Rica now, so I’ll be trying to put together a post about the beach sometime in the next couple…
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Finca Ecológica San Luis
How do we secure the future of natural places? This question has many answers, most of which require some form of economic incentive. One such answer is ecotourism. Ecotourism at its core is visiting a place to observe its ecology, whether that be elephants in Africa, penguins on Antarctic icebergs or Quetzals in the Central…
Backcountry Birding 