Archive for May, 2008

The Famous Costa Rica Venado Caverns.

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

By Melvin Pereira
 
Near the town of La Fortuna, home to the majestic Arenal Volcano, are the famous Venado Caverns.  At a little under forty-five minutes from all the major hotels in the area, the Venado Caverns offers its adventurous visitors a hidden world of beautiful stalagmites and stalactites.
The caverns were formed over 15 million years [...]

Rural Tourism in Costa Rica.

Monday, May 26th, 2008

By Melvin Pereira
 
Community based Rural Tourism has strongly began to mark its presence within Costa Rica’s tourist industry.
With the advantage of having numerous factors to its favor, Community Based Rural Tourism is able to compete with other popular and high end attractions in the country.  Not only does this type of tourism offer the visitor [...]

Murcielago Islands

Monday, May 26th, 2008

By Melvin Pereira
 
Just north of the Gulf of Papagayo, within the Santa Rosa National Park, lies Costa Rica’s Murcielago Islands, or Bat Islands in English.
It is unclear where the island got its name from, but the two most accepted reasons are due to the shape of the islands when viewed upon from the air, or [...]

Rural Tourism and a Coffee Tour.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

By Melvin Pereira
Coffee Tours are widely popular among tourists coming to Costa Rica searching for an unparalleled vacation.
The latest operation to open is located in the province of Alajuela in the town of Naranjo.  At only 2 hours from downtown San Jose, this coffee plantation and tourist attraction was inaugurated by Oscar Arias, Costa Rica’s [...]

Oriens Reports Huge Success for Hotel PURE

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

By Melvin Pereira
 
Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp., an emerging Travel and Hotel Management Company, operating online travel booking site 128trip and hotel management subsidiary Hotel PURE, is pleased report exhibiting Hotel PURE at Expotur in Costa Rica last week a huge success.
Oriens has returned from exhibiting Hotel PURE at EXPOTUR taken place in Costa [...]