{"id":1131,"date":"2009-05-22T17:16:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T00:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2009-05-28T16:28:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T23:28:49","slug":"costa-rica-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/costa-rica-the-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica: The Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For 26 years, The California Native has been leading travelers to destinations all over the world, but may be best known as the foremost authority on tours of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coppercanyontours.com\" class=\"broken_link\">Mexico&#8217;s Copper Canyon<\/a>. But did you know that we have also been arranging and leading trips to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/costarica\/\">Costa Rica<\/a>?\u00a0In the following letter, travelers<\/em> Christine Grenning <em>and<\/em> James Dickson <em>take a moment to comment on visiting this natural paradise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want to thank you for arranging our recent\u00a0trip to Costa Rica.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/costarica\/costa-rica-tour-11day.html\">itinerary<\/a> was perfect for us.\u00a0 We particularly liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/stories\/n_tortuguero.htm\">Tortuguero<\/a>, seeing the diverse range of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/stories\/n_birds.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">birds<\/a> and animals during our exploration by boat along the canals and the long boat trip out of the national park, when we briefly entered Nicaragua.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/stories\/n_montev.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">Monteverde<\/a> was\u00a0wonderful too; we even saw the elusive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/stories\/n_rbird.htm\">quetzal<\/a> and a green toucan in the rain forest.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/stories\/n_rapidtransit.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">white water rafting<\/a> trip on the Pacaure River was terrific and we loved the overnight stay at the rustic lodge on the river.\u00a0I&#8217;m so glad we did a two day trip on the Pacaure River, it was a little bit of paradise.\u00a0In San Jose we attended a performance by the National Orchestra of Costa Rica at the grand old National Theatre, which was a fitting finale to our visit.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\">The California Native<\/a> for having such\u00a0impressive local contacts. Our guides were expert and friendly.<\/p>\n<p>We had a marvellous trip and thank you for your efforts in arranging it on our behalf.<\/p>\n<p><em>We at California Native love to hear from our travelers. Please send us your stories and comments.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 26 years, The California Native has been leading travelers to destinations all over the world, but may be best known as the foremost authority on tours of Mexico&#8217;s Copper Canyon. But did you know that we have also been arranging and leading trips to Costa Rica?\u00a0In the following letter, travelers Christine Grenning and James &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/costa-rica-the-easy-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Costa Rica: The Easy Way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[244,92,33,13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}