A week and a day in Costa Rica, May 2008

23 June 2008

Welcome to our Costa Rica blog

Why write a blog to show vacation pictures?
- The pictures are in a larger format (800 pixels) than you get when you view them online, such as on the Picasa web site
- You can look at the pictures just by scrolling up and down, no clicking and waiting for the next page.
- It's possible to embed movies, audio files, images from other sources, and links
to external web sites
- Writing out a narrative and adding pictures is easier than writing captions for every picture.

This is all presented in chronological order, but if you are in a rush and want to jump ahead, the best pictures are from Manuel Antonio, Rio Celeste, and Uvita.

  • Day 1 : Alajuela to La Fortuna, by way of the Poas...

  • Day 2 : the Arenal area

  • Day 3 : Rio Celeste

  • Day 4 : Arenal to Santa Elena

  • Day 5 : Santa Elena/Monteverde to Manuel Antonio

  • Day 6 : Manuel Antonio to Uvita

  • Day 7 : Uvita

  • Day 8 : Uvita to San Jose

  • Day 9 : San Jose

    Here is a map of Costa Rica, with our route traced in light red.
    The numbers are as follows:
    1. La Fortuna
    2. El Castillo
    3. Rio Celeste
    4. Santa Elena
    5. Manuel Antonio
    6. Uvita



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    All these pictures are stored on Picasa.
    Here are links if you want to see more.

    http://picasaweb.google.com/paulojohnson/Uvita

    http://picasaweb.google.com/paulojohnson/Arenal

    http://picasaweb.google.com/paulojohnson/Monteverde

    http://picasaweb.google.com/paulojohnson/ManuelAntonio

    http://picasaweb.google.com/paulojohnson/ArenalEruptionsViewAsSlideshowWith1SecondDelay

    http://picasaweb.google.com/paulojohnson/RioCeleste

    http://picasaweb.google.com/paulojohnson/ButterflyConservatory

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    About the videos: I originally had uploaded our videos to YouTube, but the image quality was so poor that I looked for a better option and found Vimeo. These videos look really good even if you select the fullscreen option.

    Vimeo seems to a be pretty good service. It takes longer to upload videos, but the picture quality is outstanding. The only downside I've seen is there can be some choppiness, since you are downloading a lot more data than YouTube.
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