Central America Archives - Duff's Suitcase /central-america/ Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:39:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Three months of Central America and Mexico in photos /three-months-of-central-america-and-mexico-in-photos/ /three-months-of-central-america-and-mexico-in-photos/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:12:29 +0000 /?p=4223 Starting out a trip through Central America with six weeks of learning to surf on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica was a good beginning. From there on it just got better: road tripping around the bumpy roads of Costa Rica in a Suzuki Jimny, exploring Monteverde Cloud Forest, hiking up volcanoes and staying in a […]

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]]> /three-months-of-central-america-and-mexico-in-photos/feed/ 3 Riding waves: a New Year’s pledge /riding-waves-a-new-years-resolution/ /riding-waves-a-new-years-resolution/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:16:42 +0000 /?p=4015 My big pledge this year is to be braver and make myself do the things that scare me most. My first challenge was set to be surfing. I was in Nosara for almost two months, a great surf spot in Costa Rica with a beach break and warm water (read more about how much I […]

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]]> /riding-waves-a-new-years-resolution/feed/ 4 What I love about Costa Rica /what-i-love-about-costa-rica/ /what-i-love-about-costa-rica/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:38:49 +0000 /?p=4056 On my second visit to Costa Rica, I grew to love this tiny country even more than I did before. I experienced what it’s like to live in a beach community, learned to surf, practised yoga surrounded by jungle, drove around winding roads in a 4×4, hiked through a forest at night to find sleeping […]

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]]> /what-i-love-about-costa-rica/feed/ 2 Finding surf and yoga zen in Nosara /finding-surf-and-yoga-zen-in-nosara/ /finding-surf-and-yoga-zen-in-nosara/#respond Wed, 04 Mar 2015 04:39:37 +0000 /?p=3962 Nosara is one of those places that you arrive in and on your first day you think “I could live here”. It’s the kind of place that makes people change their flights, cancel other travel plans, or, in many cases – decide to relocate. On the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, Nosara is a […]

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]]> /finding-surf-and-yoga-zen-in-nosara/feed/ 0 Saving Costa Rica’s sea turtles /saving-costa-ricas-sea-turtles/ /saving-costa-ricas-sea-turtles/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:22:18 +0000 /?p=2980 It was midnight on a hot, sticky Costa Rican beach and I was so exhausted from jet lag that I had started hallucinating dark shapes in the ocean. We’d been walking on the starlit beach for a few hours following our enthusiastic guide, Kloyd Taylor, whose response to almost anything was a cheery “Pura vida!”. […]

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]]> /saving-costa-ricas-sea-turtles/feed/ 3 Unplugging Costa Rica /unplugging-costa-rica/ /unplugging-costa-rica/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:41:51 +0000 /?p=2963 It was like being inside a “Sounds of the Rainforest” CD. Standing on a suspension bridge high above a Costa Rican cloud forest, with the sound of a thousand tweeting birds, gentle humming of insects and a breeze rustling couch-sized tree leaves, I was transfixed. Everyone else had moved on to the hummingbird garden, and […]

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