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Category: South America

Costa Rica Day 4 – Midnight weightlifting, flashing hummingbirds and misgendering in Spanish

Costa Rica Day 4 – Midnight weightlifting, flashing hummingbirds and misgendering in Spanish

Sandeep SomasekharanMarch 10, 2024May 5, 2024

On Day 4 in Costa Rica, Sandy learns his Spanish grammar the hard way, and indulges in a little light experiment with hummingbird photography

Christmas at Boca Tapada – Costa Rica Birding Diary Day 3

Christmas at Boca Tapada – Costa Rica Birding Diary Day 3

Sandeep SomasekharanFebruary 15, 2024February 15, 2024

Scarlet Macaws, Great Green Macaws, Shining Honeycreepers, King Vultures — a great big birding feast! What better way to spend Christmas in Boca Tapada, Costa Rica

Muddy Boots in Guapiles | Costa Rica Birding Diary – Day 2

Muddy Boots in Guapiles | Costa Rica Birding Diary – Day 2

Sandeep SomasekharanFebruary 2, 2024February 15, 2024

From white bats huddled like dumplings under banana leaves and shimmering hummingbirds and gaudy tree frogs, to majestic owls necking in the dark of the forest, it’s just another birding day in Guapiles, Costa Rica. Is crazy!

Costa Rica Birding Diary | Day 1 – Cinchona and Sarapiqui

Costa Rica Birding Diary | Day 1 – Cinchona and Sarapiqui

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 23, 2024February 15, 2024

Exploring the bird life of Costa Rica, Sandy meets many that he assumes are either marital partners or relatives, but is mistaken!

Tropical Trance – Seduced by the Peruvian Amazonia

Tropical Trance – Seduced by the Peruvian Amazonia

Gayatri HazarikaJune 10, 2015January 31, 2024

Thirty-five hours of flying and layovers are not good news for anybody’s carbon footprint, but if that is the price to pay for a peep into Amazonia, this sigh-filled travelogue is redemption enough. GAYATRI HAZARIKA can’t help gushing as she describes the biodiversity she encountered on her sojourn in Peru’s rainforest paradise

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