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Eco Exotica
Costa Rica’s got it all
By Lynn Barnett
ive me a good book, a lounge chair by the pool and 200-yard-long rides are a possibility), I could lounge around my choice
a tall gin and tonic and I’ve got all the vacation I of three pools, and the kids could play in the game room or join club
Gneed. Trouble is, that doesn’t fly as a vacation with activities.
my son Jack or my daughter Chelsea. They seem to need a little more There were plenty of other amusing things to do, too. At the top of the
excitement than that. And my husband Joe, well, all he needs is surf adventure list (apart from gawking at
and he’s a happy chappy.
the crocodiles while tourists fed them
What to do when the family can’t chickens from the hotel’s adjacent river
agree on how to spend a week off bridge) was a Tarzan-like ride through
together? Fly to Costa Rica, like we the jungles of the rain forest. With my
did, and discover a world of adven- fear of heights, I was surprised that
ture, waves to ride and poolside I was able to stand on platforms as
peace. high as the treetops and whiz above
the forest canopy, rigged into a har-
We chose a one-week stay at Fiesta ness that attaches to a clothesline-like
Resort & Casino in the little village 1 1/2-inch steel cable. Guides caught
of Puntarenas, a two-hour drive us at each tree platform, then pushed
from the San Jose airport. Here,
Joe could surf with his buddies at us off several hundred feet above the
tundra where we found ourselves glid-
Boca Barranca (a left-point break ing through the air for a hundred yards
in front of a river mouth where
or more before reaching the next tree.
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