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These are the reccomended vaccinations from the Ontario Government to travel to Costa Rica.
Hepititis A is a viral infection of the liver that can cause permanent liver damage. It is contracted through contaminated drinking water, ice cubes or other food related items. Commonly found in the Caribbean and Central America, it is always a possiblity. Although most adults will recover from this infection, it is preventable by vaccination.
Hepititis B is a sexually transmitted disease found throughout the world. Like Hep A it is a virus that attacks the liver, but unlike Hep A it is very likely to cause permanent damage. The vaccination for Hep B can be taken in combination with the Hep A vaccination. These vaccinations will provide a lifetime of immunity if the full course of 2 (Hep A only) or 3 (Hep A/B combined or Hep B alone) are taken.
Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease that can be life threatening. Again it is preventable by vaccination. This vaccination is good only for 3 years.
Vaccinations can get gotten at your doctor, a travel clinic or a pharmacy (then take to a doctor for injection).
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 Marpesia petreus at
Carara Biological
Reserve. by no1birdladyLeave a Comment
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Electricity at remote lodges may not be able to handle the wattage of our American applicances. At Trogon Lodge, it was after dark when I washed my hair and plugged in my hair dryer to dry it. That blew the fuses not only in my room but the whole cluster of rooms. I tried to find the fuse box but couldn't so finally went up to the dining hall and found someone but he didn't speak any English. I got him to come back to my room and showed him the hair dryer and that the lights did not work and he finally understood and went and fixed the fuse. I got a LOT of kidding about causing the blackout at the Lodge for the rest of the trip. Leave a Comment
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Costa Rica is safe in general and the people pretty honest- the most dishonest and nasty ones are the ones who are supposed to be honest, but they are not - everybody's favourite, yes the police.
Be wary- In San Jose some of them work in conjunction with drug addicts and try to set up innocent
tourists. I am speaking from experience as they tried this on me, fortunately I am an experienced traveller and managed to get out of it, but it could have been a very scary experience for inexperienced travellers!
It works like this-you get approached in the street by some drug addict trying to sell you
stuff. I kept telling this creep too f-off, but he wouldn't take no for an answer and
followed me for ages. He kept trying to get me to hold the stuff in my hands to "feel the
quality" which made me extremely suspicious!
Finally when I would not touch it he waited until I had to stop for some traffic lights
and then actually stood in front of me and stuffed the drugs into my jacket pocket!
Well, guess what happened next, -within seconds 2 cops pounced on me and found
the drugs, surprise surprise!
So it was fairly obvious to me now why the druggie wanted me to touch these drugs, as
obviously we were being watched all the time and these uniformed creeps were just
waiting.
Got arrested and taken to the local police station.
While we were waiting to be searched the cops started to rough up the druggie a bit and
beat him half-heartedly making him scream a few times, but it was obviously put on for my
benefit to intimidate me, but I was not impressed at all.
Anyway to cut a long story short tried a few tricks of my own and they decided its best to drop the whole thing.
But it just shows you what can happen to innocent people abroad when dealing with these corrupt cops- and don't expect too much help from your own country, they know perfectly well many police are corrupt, but they won't support anyone facing drug charges- they are more concerned with observing diplomatic niceties then helping innocent people. Leave a Comment
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Me (I am a female) and my sister stayed at the Hemingway Inn in San Jose. I have an old college friend that moved back there and he would often pick us up at the hotel and take us around the city. Upon check-out I was presented with a hefty bill. When I asked what the charges were for they said it was 'prostitute charges' for each time my friend passed through the lobby and that this was a customary fee in Costa Rica. Grossed out and offended we paid as we were not allowed to leave until we did. Watch out this hotel is shady!!
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 Not the road we were on, but
not far off!!! by daffodil
And not only are the roads in a bad state of repair, the many agricultural trucks filled to overflowing that travel on them drop parts of their load onto the road and it doesn't seem that these get cleaned up. We saw lots of sugar cane on the roads.
The worst road is that going to up Monteverde. The cloud forest at an elevation of 1200m. This is no exageration. It is 1.2 cars wide, blind corners, no barriers and mud with jagged rocks sticking out!! It is about 40 km long (the way we went anyway) and took more than 1.5 hrs!!!
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 The culprit??? by travelmad478Leave a Comment
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We purchased a Garmin E-Trek map GPS for $169.00 at Cabelas.com; it worked perfectly in Costa Rica and we never got lost. Beware of driving at night, keep your speed low and watch for bicycles and fast moving oncoming traffic. Do not stop to help anyone that appears to be in trouble; chances are you will be robbed of you personal belongings and cash. If you should happen to encounter this circumstance drive around the disabled vehicle as fast as you can and continue on your way. Do not leave personal belongings in full view inside your locked vehicle when visiting any city; chances are your car will be broken in to and all belongings removed. Use common sense while on the road; Costa Rica is a friendly country and not everyone is a robber so use some discretion and don't flash large sums of cash in public. Take only the cash you will need for the day and carry a photo copy of your passport. Passports are a favorite target for thieves and can fetch up to $300.00 when re-sold. Leave a Comment
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I know this can happen anywhere, but I hate being ripped off. We had rented a car for the week we were in Costa Rica. After having had a relatively good week or so driving around Costa Rica, we finally entered San Jose for our final three days.
We were barely in the city for five min. looking for our hotel when we were pulled over by the TRAFFIC POLICE. Unbeknown to us we had made an illigal lefthand turn. After handing over my drivers license and passport he said he had to issue us a ticket. That ticked was worth 20,000 Colons ($65 US) After arguing a bit with him and asking him to give a tourist a break, since I didn't commit a criminal offence, he said he was able to help us out. All I had to do was pay him 10,000 colons in cash and then NO TICKET would be issued.
Well as a tourist you don't have much choice but to pay up, especially when they hold on to your license and passport.
Later in the day we happen to see the same 'traffic police' again at the scene of an accident,together with six city police. I told the police of my predicament with the traffic police and pointed at the rip-off artist, but they more or less told me very politely to leave or there could be more problems. So, when in SAN JOSE COSTA RICA do not make any wrong turns, at least when the traffic police is present. Leave a Comment
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