A word about Quepos, the town in which we stayed most of the week. Quepos is a district and the capital of Aguirre canton in Puntarenas Province. The population is about 22,000 people. Although the town is about 60 km. south (in a straight line) from Costa Rica’s capital, San José, it is 157 km from that city by road, and the traffic was […]
Manuel Antonio
Playa Playitas
We decided to go to the beach, so we asked Annie Lambert, a neighbor who helps out Kevin, (we’re at Kevin’s place), where to go. Annie did not disappoint. She found us a driver who took us to Playa Playita. When we were at Manuel Antonio yesterday, they claimed that Playa Numero Tres, the beach […]
Manuel Antonio
Manuel Antonio is two first names. Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio is a small National Park in on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos. Established in 1972 with a land area of about 3 square miles (the smallest of any Costa Rican national park), it is the destination of as many as 150,000 visitors annually and well […]