This page has the coordinates -- the specifics --
about people and places and things on our trip to Costa Rica.

Costa Rica Map & Travel Guide

General Information about Costa Rica

Lot's of general information

Arenal Volcano A PBS special

Costa Rica Web resources from PBS

coati

map of Puntarenas and Tortuga Island

Trip Reports

Real Affordable - January 2003

An earlier version of this trip: July 1995

Background

Rain forests including definitions of this and other types of forests, statistics, and lots of other related information.

Camera

I bought a Panasonic FZ10 camera after our trip to Morroco and before our trip to India. It has a 35-420 mm optical lense with 3x additional digital zoom and image stabalization. Here are two pictues that illustrate the advantage of a good long lense.

The picture on the left was taken at the 35mm setting. The one on the right was at a full 36x digital zoom with image stabalization resting the camera on a bridge -- no tripod. A whole lot simpler than my old SLR where I would have had to change lenses and still couldn't have gotten these pictures. Return to trip report

Back to Costa Rica trip report Lyon, Popanz & Forester's home page, more Adventure Travel
Created September 13, 2005
Updated September 20, 2005