Justine Weaver
Mr. Borland
CP World Cultures and Geography
19 March 2015
Costa Rica Vacation I’ve always wanted to go to Costa Rica or Puerto Rico, but for this trip I decided to go to Costa Rica. After graduating high school, I made it a goal to save a lot of money just to go to Costa Rica. Also, I’ve always thought that Costa Rica was a beautiful country, and I love the Spanish cultures. I knew that my cousin Josh Mooney wanted to go on a vacation to a new country, so I brought him along. Saving enough money up and planning this trip was a lot of hard work, but eventually it all paid off. Before going on the trip, I looked up the average temperatures for July, where we could visit, and booked our nights in the hotels we wanted to
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In 1987, president Oscar Arias Sánchez got the Nobel Peace Prize for the work he did for the on the Esquipulas Peace Agreement, which brought peace to the region (Costa Rica Culturegrams). I also learned that in April 2014, Luis Guillermo Solís won the presidential election (Costa Rica Culturegrams).
Josh and I decided to leave for Costa Rica July 7th. I booked our flight and hotels a couple months in advance to make sure that we would get what we wanted. We packed our belongings and headed for the airport in Philadelphia. We finally get to San Jose around 1:30 p.m. and head for the hotel which is about 20 minutes from the airport. When we got to the Doubletree hotel, we check in, get our luggage to our room, then we headed to the pool to relax after a long flight. (DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose - Costa Rica). After relaxing for a couple hours, we got ready to go out for dinner. We found a lot of different restaurants, and we picked a Costa Rican one called Restaurante Nuestra Tierra (Restaurants). A good thing is that I could understand and speak Spanish, or I wouldn’t have understood some of the people there. The food was pretty good for never having Costa Rican food.
The next day we went to the Multiplaza Mall in Escazú, only 15 minutes away (Centro Comercial Multiplaza - Costa Rica). We walked around the mall and took in the environment. The Costa Ricans wore
But, our work in Costa Rica was only halfway done. So, let me tell you about the time I climbed a mountain four times. I guess I’ll start by saying that this leg of the trip tested my limits and pushed me past the point of my personal comfortability. If you weren’t already aware, most of Costa Rica is covered in lush greenery, much of which forms into many rainforests with mountains upon mountains. These rainforests host many species of flora like orchids, various ferns, hibiscuses, and fauna like Capuchin monkeys, toucans, sloths, and of course, overly friendly squirrels. We stayed for around four days in Quebrada Arroyo, a dense rainforest home to a large farm. One of the main agricultural exports from that farm happens to be palm oil from its acres of palm trees. Although palm oil has become a staple source of revenue for the community, it is also not a native plant species, and from being such, is devastating to the land. It’s a common contributor to deforestation and makes for a great topic to invest some time into. Aside from research endeavors, we hadn’t climbed a mountain to our cabins just to ogle the views - although they were quite nice. Our jobs had ranged from replacing an irrigation pipe - one of which broke and made for a nice cool down -, touching up paint on water towers, paving a small plank of ground near a garage, and digging up dirt on the side of a hill to fill a plant nursery. Even though the jobs had been taxing, the fresh fruit juices and dip in a waterfall, made every moment all the sweeter. However, like in La Carpio, we had to say goodbye, this time to soccer with locals, pure sugar cane juice, large insects, and some of the friendliest people I’ve ever
Costa Rica is certainly more than a vacation location, It a place that makes you want to come back for many long lifetime memories. It a place that gives you interactive experience each day. The country provides a collection of biodiversity and environmental charm in which you want to crave more each day. With royal volcanoes, foggy cloud forests, stunning river valleys, and tons of beaches along both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Costa Rica can grant you an amazing story that you can explore with its lovely geographic location. It shows the history of how peaceful and family driven culture is. So came explore what we call Costa Rica.
The best trip I ever took was when my husband and I went to La Romana in the Dominican Republic. It was beautiful there.
As we drove from the International Airport to our destination, the view from the car window began to change. I noticed how the large buildings and monuments from the capital were replaced by trees and mountains, how the occasional citizen walking their dog became a farmer guiding his cattle, and how the smell of Gourmet Dominican-american restaurants and fancy bakeries eventually transitioned into the smell of fresh baked bread and freshly picked “Dulce de leche” mangoes. In a matter of seconds, I was boggled by the distinct feel of the air I was being introduced to.
One experience that has had an impact on the way that I think was living in Costa Rica. The part of Costa Rica that I lived in was very laid back. In order to survive in that culture as an American I had to be able to take the initiative in order to get things done, yet do it in a way that was kind and compatible with the Costa Rican culture. This taught me patience and how to lead in a kind, but effective way.
Did you choose your destination for this summer? It are you prepared everything you need for the trip? What is your favorite place? How can I choose the best place for tourism? What language does that country speak? These are the hardest questions for many people in the summer time.
Costa Rica have a lot of traditional dishes. Gallo Pinto is a dish made of rice and beans which is usually mixed with peppers, cilantro, or onions. It is a breakfast
I will be going into depth about a family vacation in Punta Cana that my lovely girlfriend had the chance to come along with. This was my second trip to this destination once while I was younger with only my parents and sister. But for the next time much more of my family got the opportunity to come along. The main reason being because my cousin was getting married here but everyone was also looking for a relaxing vacation. Punta Cana is a warm tropical destination and was the perfect place to do so. The views in this country are breathtaking. This place is also a very poor third world country outside of the resorts which we were staying at.
Costa Rica provided me with a fresh, inspiring, and eye-opening portal into the world of South America. My time in Costa was filled with self-love, self-acceptance and self- appreciation. I experienced so much growth, discomfort, confusion, compassion, generosity, exhaustion, and most abundantly, love. Beautiful workshops; some teaching me about the power of my yoni, others focusing on the knowledge of the self and the core that each individual must return to within their own body and soul. Indian temple and body appreciation dance classes, and every single beautiful artist and individual that graced me with their
I have always loved traveling and have been on many unforgettable adventures during my life so far. Although, when asked to talk about a specific vacation, my mind immediately draws back to my trip in April of 2015. My family and I planned to go to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. In the past, we had experienced the scorching, hot, Mexican sun but have never quite experienced on the Pacific Coast. Personally, I was ecstatic for this next vacation. I previously knew that Puerto Vallarta was known as “The Pearl of the Pacific” and to be completely honest that is what intrigued me the most. I spent countless months up to a year purchasing new clothes, accessories, and books to help make my trip even more enjoyable. So, generally speaking, the moment
My family loves to go back to el Salvador to visit family. We go there for vacations each year in the summer. The past two years we went. My father’s cousin recommended a resort. He said “for your children’s to enjoy and for you guys to relax”. He also paid for our stance in the hotel which was 1 week and 3 days. He paid for all my family but my dad paid for my grandmas because he said that it was already too much. At first it was a little challenging trying to find the place, because it’s far from where we live but it was great at the end because the hotel service is also great. When we check in the people are polite and their system is fast, because it took us around five minutes to get our documents and our rooms ready. We went to our rooms and everything was great. Honestly I didn’t expect a good service when my cousin decides to paid
Not only did she get to experience the country of Costa Rica from a tourists’ perspective as in visiting historic buildings and monuments, but she also got to live the life of a Costa Rican citizen for a week as well. This included staying at a family’s home and partaking in the daily family
Costa Rica located in Central America with the capital of San Jose and near the pacific ocean, has Panama as well as Nicaragua as their neighboring countries. It also has amazing beaches all around such as Manuel Antonio, Playa Uvita, Tortuguero, Jaco and much more. Popular foods are casado, tres leches, ceviche, and gallo pinto. There are many festivals in Costa Rica one of them is the “Envision Festival” consisting of live concerts, yoga and trapeze, this festival is likely to occur in the month of February where people all around the world go to join. Fiestas de los Diablitos is also a well known festival in Costa Rica, meaning “festivals of the little Devils” is likely to take place in December and in the second half of February in Boruca
The final step would be: save, save save! Saving money is essential to any vacation. Research how much the main attractions would be and estimate how much you would spend on attractions, food, and transportation. Buying your airplane ticket and reserving your hotel early enough, will allow you to save more money so that you can spend more. Try not to eat out as much, pack your own lunch. If possible, put off small one or two hour trips until your vacation. The less you spend, the more you can save.
William and Walton-Roberts (2013) defined homelands as places that people have strong feelings about and are recognized with. Schnell (2000) argued that homelands involve the emotional bonding of a self-conscious group to a particular area of land, attachments that buttress a person’s identity as a member of a group and such attachments are immensely rooted in the visible landscape of the homeland. William and Walton-Roberts (2013) explained that homelands involve typical ethnic characters, recognizable self-consciously aware groups, cultural regional landscape, emotional connection of the group with the region and a level of institutional control of the region. William and Walton-Roberts (2013) further discussed that homelands are mostly ethnically based regions with recognizable cultural landscapes that are best understood as dynamic results of specific human and environment relations. William and Walton-Roberts (2013) discussed that cultural regions were initially used as a means of establishing some semblance on a supposedly diverse cultural phenomenon.