Dominical, Costa Rica. I have only been once, but it will be my go-to vacation spot moving forward.
Dominical is not a crowded, touristy area of Costa Rica. Which is why it is so great. The people are extremely friendly and are actually comprised of many ex-pats that own some of the restaurants and stores in town.
When traveling to Dominical, you most likely will fly into San Jose.
Dominical is a couple hours by car from San Jose Intl. Airport. I didn't mind the drive at all.
You drive past lush scenery and green forests. You know your not in Kansas anymore when they have signs for iguana crossings. They have a lot of palm tree plantations as you get somewhat closer to the coast. I was told a lot of the world’s palm oil is produced here.
My wife and I decided to come here on our Honeymoon. My brother had told me about it from his time he spent surfing here years prior. As you approach the coast, you will know it.
Instead of staying at a hotel, we decided to rent a house which was by far the best way to go. It was not only cheaper but had a full kitchen, 2 bedrooms and in a gated community (not that it was needed). Here's the view.
The town is just the right size and has anything you could need when really, if you have a pair of sandals, board shorts and your wallet … your good to go.
Even the restaurants have a killer view.
There are tons of things to do in Dominical. We decided to visit a wildlife sanctuary that was run by an ex-pat that owned the place for 20 years. Here is a view from the sanctuary's entrance...
By the way, this little dude was crazy and will mess you up if he doesn't like you. As we were told, his previous owner was a drug lord that had him since he was young and he was finally rescued when the previous owner's activities were called under question.
We also took a trip by a horseback along a river to waterfalls (yes you get to climb the face of these waterfalls with a rope and then jump off them). It felt like a Costa Rican rite of passage.
The local cuisine was great, the surfing was epic - barely anyone around and the water was warm and clear. Every day in the afternoon it rained which turned out to be an ideal time to take a siesta and get ready for the evening. After all, waking up to a beautiful sun rise, a beautiful wife and ending the day with this, I couldn't ask for much else.
Hope you enjoyed the trip.
Passage for lizards, great rain forest with magnificent waterfalls to swim in... I'm getting the bug! thank you for this precious sharing. Maybe you'd also like my travelogs that have been mostly about the Canadian Rockies, so far, check it out:
http://steemit.com/@eric-boucher
Namaste :)
Love dominical! spent 6 months there, cant wait to go back!
Also check out one of the planet's most intruiging festivals that happens every summer there in february, Envision!
http://www.envisionfestival.com/?home=2016
I want to go to this one as well!!! Thanks for sharing, thrive on. Namaste :)
Yeah envision is truly world class. So much more than music; a lot of focus on new ideas and radical sustainability, with workshops and speakers, etc. Since I am an artist there every year (Im a VJ) and part of the build team (oh how i love bamboo) i think im going to talk to the higher-ups and give them some speaker reccomendations from authors here on steemit...
Also if you've ever ben to a similar festival, you know the feeling you get afterwards such as:
why do i have to go back to the real world now?!?
What if we could perpetuate such a lifestyle? Burning Man just bought a massive ranch they plan to use year round...
Would a breakthrough in affordable free energy technology assist in that process?
I think ill explore that in a future article in my upcoming Steemit series: "The Anarchronicles"
https://steemit.com/anarchy/@scotty/the-anarchronicles
And btw, heres a great envsion recap, you might catch a glimpse of my visuals on the giant cat stage... ;)
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=aaRt538qrIc
In deed, I'm well versed in such festival and am starving for them year after year for the past 23 years... I usually go to the ones up in Northern B.C., but the last few years have seen a lot of change in the way they have been handled and, more importantly, the nature of the crowd drastically changed creating to my dismay a highly unsustainable culture... Since then, synchronicity and spirit brought me to travel a bit more to the Canadian Rockies and, as you might have seen it already, they find themselves at the heart of my travelogging on steemit. Let me know what you think and how it feels to you: http://steemit.com/@eric-boucher
Thanks for the news concerning the Burning Man development, I had not heard about it yet. This is so exciting in itself and can't wait to see what will come o it as the years go by.
In relation to the free energy front, I'm glad to come across another invention that brings it home, it is so well needed. So much so, that I think we should post the design on Steemit for the future generation to have access to it as well! the nature of this knowledge has the tendency to disappear or be buried quickly...
Once again a big thank you for your work, I'll be following you as well, looking forward to more news of that nature and will check out the youtube videos soon enough. Thrive on @scotty! Namaste :)
Amazing photos!
Cool.
What a wonderful trip! I think I m going there next year :-)
Nice article , beautiful detsination
Great photos of Dominical, Costa Rica, that monkey is so cute and can't imagine swimming by the waterfalls.
The monkey was not shy, lets put it that way :)
I absolutely love Costa Rica! ...except driving can be problematic as they don't have signs for street names (many streets don't have names or addresses). So directions are given by pointing in a direction, turn left at the big tree, take the second right, and turn left at the brick house that Maria lives in. Sigh... I found that rental car GPS's are useless, if there is no destination address to type in.
lovely pics, thanks for sharing
beautiful pictures - the waterfall is awesome- looks amazing place to visit
Ein wunderschönes Land und gute Fotos. Danke
I've never been to Costa Rice, but I want to go -- BAD!
Love the photos!
Very nice, we are going to Costa Rica in October.
Would be nice to have a lightbox/carousel feature in steemit so you would not have to load all of the images in the body.
It was worth the wait for the images to load, can't wait to go.
Thanks for taking me on a tour with you. Great pics and looks like you both had a great time. I surf too and hear nothing but great things about Costa Rica. Keep up the good work @takethecannoli
I was there earlier this year. Arenal volcano area was amazing!
wow ... amazing place and photos , have fun ur travelling @takehecannoli
Beautiful pictures...
insanely beautiful
the views are already spectacular. I notice one pic has a PADI sign which implies it's probably a place for divers as well. nice. :-)
I would love to see Costa Rica someday and very lovely pics. Check out my trip to Jamaica. https://steemit.com/travel/@dmacshady/my-first-trip-to-jamaica-and-it-was-ultimate-greatness
Fantastic photography. It looks very peaceful beside the waterfall.
You really need to visit South Africa... all of that and more, for instance the Big Five roaming free, plus your exchange rate makes everything basement bargain stuff. That said, if I was not so far away and having to a 13/1 currency exchange rate, I would love to visit Dominical !!
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