It has been a long time coming but now the paving is about 75% completed from Quepos to Dominical
A picture is worth a thousand words. The photos are taken just a couple of days ago of a very tiny portion of the newly-paved 44 km (27 mile) stretch of the Costa Rica’s coastal highway (Costañera Sur) leading south from Quepos to Dominical.
It’s been a long time coming, but at last this major public works project is not only well underway, but about 75% completed.
Some of the major and minor bridges along the route aren’t finished yet, nor is some of the paving closer to Dominical, but the entire 44 km of highway should be all paved by the beginning of 2010 at the latest.
If you plan on driving farther south, it is best to take the inland road, traffic is terrible. A friend says there can be hours of delay crossing bridges. And detours are everywhere. And with the rainy season, it makes matters worse.
After 20 years the road is finally being paved Read more... (307 words, 3 images, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)
Just a few miles south of Quepos is one of the top beaches in the world, Manual Antonio
Quepos is known for, a place where the rainforest meets the sea, and is on a tropical inlet about halfway down Costa Rica’s Pacific coast on the Puntarenas Province. The town gets its name from the Quepo Indian tribe, a subgroup of the Borucas, who inhabited the area at the time of the conquest. As a result of diseases brought by Europeans, warfare and other Indian groups, and slavery, there are no pure blooded Quepos left by the end of the 19th century.
Quepos first came to prominence as a banana exporting port. Due to disease, African palm oil replaced bananas as the local major crop and, because the finished produced is much less bulky than bananas, Quepos declined as a major shipping port. Even as late as the 1950s regular communication with the rest of the country not easy. Roads were almost non-existent. There was a small railroad between Quepos and Parrita and at low tide the Alpa Airline landed a small plane on the beach in front of Main Street. Read more... (600 words, 2 images, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)
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