Costa Rica
Tour and Panama Cruise with CruiseWest
Text and Photos
by Jack
Yeazel
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WEATHER:
In February, Costa Rica Atlantic side, cool
and sometimes showery. Costa Rica Pacific side, warm and humid.
Seas fairly calm. Panama Pacific side, cool and pleasant (due to
the Humboldt Current). Atlantic side, warmer, but still rather pleasant.
Seas more windy and choppy. We would suggest you select a cruise
in the Costa Rica-to-Panama direction in order to get your sea legs for
the Atlantic side. Winter is considered the dry season in Central
America.
Overall GPS StreetAtlas map of the trip. Blue is Land Tour of Costa
Rica, Green is the Ship Cruise in the Pacific Ocean.
Black is the Panama Canal, and Red is the return Cruise in the Caribbean
Ocean from the San Bas Islands to Colon.
All tracks were edited and displayed by G7ToWin.
Part-I Costa Rica Tour
(5 Feb. to 10 Feb. 2005)
The "yellow brick road" is a GPS track
of the CRT bus tour superimposed on Garmin's WorldMap
Click on these Thumbnails to Access Web Pages
of Interest
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Antique Auto Display near the Marriott
Courtyard Hotel. -First night stay.
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Inbioparque -Display of aquatic animals
and fish of Costa Rica, some being endangered species.
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Rain Forest Aerial Tram and Restaurant,
Braulio Carrillo National Park.
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Centro Neotropico SarapiquiS Hotel -Botanical
Gardens and Archaeological Site. -Two nights stay.
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Poás Volcano National Park.
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La Paz Waterfall and Restaurant -northeast
of the Volcano.
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"Green" Iguana "à la mode" (see
page).
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Arenal Volcano view from the Arenal Paraiso
Hotel Cabins. -Two nights stay.
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Sky Tram and Zip Line launch point
-The destination is invisible!
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Hot Springs and Pools.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go
in the water! (On the way to the dock).
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Cruise West Pacific Explorer.
Part-2 -Cruise on
the Pacific Explorer (11 Feb. to 19 Feb. 2005)
The Yellow Line is the ship track of
the Pacific Explorer superimposed on Garmin's WorldMap
Click on these Thumbnails to Access Web Pages
of Interest
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Wild Capuchin (observing beach person)
in the Manuel Antonio National Park.
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Macaw in the Wildlife Hospital of the Cana
Blanca Preserve.
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Granito de Oro (Little Grain of Gold) Island
-Model for all deserted-island cartoons?
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The indigenous people of Emberá
-Preparing music for a festive dance.
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Pacheca Bird Island of Panama.
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The Panama Canal -Hotels can navigate this
thing?
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Portobelo -Discovered by Columbus in 1502
(escaping from a storm), later fortified by the Spanish.
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Kuna indigenous people of the San Blas
Islands -Natives sell their reverse appliqués.
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Kuna native dance. The men are playing
flutes while the women shake maracas.
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Photos taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 and adjusted with Adobe Photoshop
Elements 2.0.