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Our Holiday Projects 08 video presentation
January 26, 2009

Click here to watch our Holiday Projects 08 video presentation

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Central Michigan University
January 23, 2009

Central Michigan University Volunteered with Tropical Adventures this last December, 2008. This video shows the beauty of their work. Thank you…

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Christmas Holiday Volunteering Projects – A Big Success!
January 7, 2009

Our Holiday Projects, which took place in Hojancha community, Puerto Viejo and Bambu over the last 3 weeks have been a…

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It’s International Volunteer Day!
December 5, 2008

International Volunteer Day: 5th December 2008 Today the UN, Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations all over the world are celebrating International Volunteer…

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Tropical Adventures Helps Flood Victims
December 3, 2008

 After a long period of heavy rains over the last couple of weeks, the Caribbean side of Costa Rica experienced horrible…

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Volunteering & Responsible Travel – Where Do We All Stand?
October 15, 2008

This week I have been thinking about the catch-phrase of the times ‘Responsible Travel’ and what this means. For some people…

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Monkey Park Testimonial by Cheryl Bhence. Los Angeles, USA.
July 31, 2008

Volunteering with Tropical Adventures was a great experience.  We had never done a volunteer vacation before. I wanted to find a…

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La Flor? Where is that?
September 8, 2007

Volunteer, Illianith, from Toronto tells about her experience volunteering with Tropical Adventures.
The plane from Toronto to Costa Rica was the first time in months that I finally got to sit down and realize that I was on my way to small village called La Flor. Many curious travelers asked me where the town was as we looked on their maps. They were more concerned about this lone traveler than I was. ¨Where is it?¨ ¨Are you sure that you’re going to be all right?…here take my number just in case!¨

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Long Drive
November 19, 2006

The Millar family are clients of ours (Tropical Adventures Volunteer Program). They were here for 2 weeks volunteering in the Puerto Viejo area on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. The most amazing part is that they drove from Alberta, Canada in an RV to be here! It sounds quite adventurous to me. And, according to them, they enjoyed each other’s company and didn’t kill one another!

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How Queer
October 22, 2006

In the last couple of years I’ve posted only one or two entries about being gay in Costa Rica. Yet with very little information on our site about the whole gay thing, we get thousands of hits from people searching about Gay Costa Rica.
So I figured I’d write just a little bit more about the subject so that people searching for more info can actually have something of more substance to read.

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