Better Than The Kardashians: Pack Smart and in Style While in Costa Rica

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News has been surfacing that the Kardashians and the Jenners are in Costa Rica right now enjoying a Caribbean vacation. Expect a posh vacation from this famous family. Don’t fret, you don’t need to be among the Kardashians to enjoy a fruitful vacation in this piece of paradise. You just have to be smart and know what to bring and what to leave at home at of your travel luggage. Here are tips on how to stay classy and ready in your Costa Rica vacation. 

Clothing – when in doubt, keep it easygoing. Costa Rica is an especially easygoing destination. Unless you have conferences or get-togethers that require more pleasant clothing, abandon it and adhere to what's agreeable. A pleasant sundress with shoes or combine of khaki slacks and a polo shirt will more often than not suffice for those exceptional suppers. It is likewise essential to consider the dampness and the exercises you will take an interest in. Pressing fast dry, dry-fit and additionally comparative garments is profoundly supported. 

Shoes – If you anticipate going climbing or strolling, climbing boots and durable tennis shoes are an absolute necessity for investigating Costa Rica. Waterproof shoes are stunningly better in the event that you plan to do exercises, for example, investigate the waterfalls or go whitewater rafting. Our 

Parka or light waterproof coat – Although Costa Rica's blustery season falls amongst May and November, it's shrewd to pack a lightweight overcoat or, no less than, a poncho. Try not to pack an umbrella, as it can't be utilized amid a hefty portion of your open air campaigns. Obviously you will have officially checked the climate for your outing, however it's constantly better to be as cautious as possible! 

Sun screen – This incorporates sun block, lip emollient, and after-sun aloe. While picking a sunscreen, it is constantly better to avoid chemicals and decide on the characteristic brands. In the event that your sunscreen of decision contains any of the accompanying, stay away from it. 
  • Benzophenone 
  • Disodium EDTA 
  • Padimate O 
  • Oxybenzone 


Rather, pick a substance free sunscreen that utilizations zinc oxide, titanium dioxide and characteristic minerals to shield the sunrays. The same goes for lip medicine, which is an essential component that sunbathers regularly overlook. Ensure your lip medicine has SPF to maintain a strategic distance from the feared lip smolder. Also, just on the off chance that you do get scorched, bear in mind the natural aloe for its mending qualities. 

Insect repellent – Costa Rica is known for its dreadful crawlers, and unless you're satisfied with creepy crawlies, we suggest bringing the bug shower. Much like your sun mind items, you ought to evade certain chemicals when buying creepy crawly repellent. The main compound to maintain a strategic distance from here is called DEET (N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide), as it has been demonstrated to impactsly affect your wellbeing as well as on the natural life and water sources. 

Caps – obviously will be outside dousing up all that Costa Rica brings to the table, so you wouldn't have any desire to overlook your cap! Women, a wide overflow sun cap is a definitive chic alternative for the shoreline. Refined men, your baseball hats will do fine and dandy. 

Water bottle – Though likely the most generally known smart tip, remaining hydrated is frequently neglected. While you are out investigating on your Costa Rica rainforest tours, remaining legitimately hydrated is the most imperative thought to recall. Obtaining glass water jugs are the least demanding approach to guarantee your items are BPA free, however steel will suffice. On the off chance that you can just recollect that one thing when you're attempting to settle on a container, recall: NO PLASTIC! 

Two bathing suits – Yes, the truth is out. TWO bathing suits. Here is the ideal time to receive the wear one, dry one arrangement. No one needs to put on a frosty, sodden suit and spend the begin of his or her day feeling awkward. 

Dry packs – Dry sacks are basic for your shoreline days as well as for those Auberge Adventures, as the majority of them include water. These sacks are additionally useful for simply keeping moistness off your profitable gadgets. Accessible in all sizes, from pocket-sized pockets to heavy 20-liter sacks, they are advantageous and simple to pack. They likewise prove to be useful when you are gathering up your bag and find that annoying swimming outfit that hasn't completed the process of drying! 

Binoculars – Binoculars are not basic requirement, in any case you will be painfully disillusioned without them. For most, these are rare encounters that you would prefer not to pass up a great opportunity for. We prescribe a 8×42 focal point to guarantee you get that more critical take a gander at the stunning natural life that Costa Rica brings to the table.

Costa Rica Cheat List: Holidays and Celebrations


Despite the fact that you shouldn't expect the sort of shading and verve that you'll discover in celebrations in Mexico or Guatemala, Costa Rica has what's coming to its of exuberant occasions and celebrations, or feriados, when all banks, post workplaces, galleries and government workplaces close. Specifically, don't attempt to travel anyplace amid Semana Santa, Holy (Easter) Week: the entire nation close down from Holy Thursday until after Easter Monday, and transports don't run. Moreover, the week from Christmas to New Year is constantly a period of movement bad dreams, stuffed shoreline towns and suspended transport administrations.

Holidays like Independence Day in Guanacaste (July 25) and the Limón jamboree (the week going before Oct 12) influence nearby administrations just, yet in any case the shutdown is extraordinary: don't wager on getting the money for voyagers' checks or mailing letters in case you're in these ranges at gathering time. 

January 1 New Year's Day. Celebrated with a major move in San José's Parque Central. 

January Fiesta de Palmares. Two weeks of moving, music and steed parades in the residential area of Palmares. 

February Puntarenas Carnival. Seven days of parades, music and firecrackers toward the finish of the month. 

February/March Monteverde Music Fest. National and worldwide performers accumulate in the cloudforest town for a time of tune and move. 

Walk 19 El Día de San José (St Joseph's Day). The supporter holy person of the San José Province is commended with fairs, parades and church administrations. 

Cinder Wednesday Countrywide parades; in Guanacaste, they're set apart by steed, cow and bull parades, with bullfights (in which the bull is not hurt) in Liberia. 

Sacred Week (Semana Santa) Dates differ yearly, yet organizations will frequently close for the whole week going before Easter end of the week. 

April International Arts celebration. San José plays host to two weeks of theater shows, shows, move exhibitions and workmanship presentations. 

April 11 El Día de Juan Santamaría. Open occasion to recognize the national saint who battled at the Battle of Rivas against the American traveler William Walker in 1856. 

May 1 El Día del Trabajo (Labor Day). The president conveys her yearly "condition of the country" address while every other person heads to the shoreline. 

May 29 Corpus Christi Day. 

June 29 St Peter's and St Paul's Day. 

July Virgin del Mar (Virgin of the Sea). Extravagantly designed pontoons fill the Gulf of Nicoya on the Saturday closest to the sixteenth, commending the benefactor holy person of Puntarenas. 

July 25 El Día de (Guanacaste Province as it were). Festivities check the extension of Guanacaste from Nicaragua in 1824. 

August 2 El Día de La Negrita (Virgin of Los Angeles Day). Admirers make a journey to the basilica in Cartago to love the extraordinary Black Virgin of Los Angeles (La Negrita), the benefactor holy person of Costa Rica. 

August 15 Assumption Day and Mother's Day. 

September 15 Independence Day, with huge enthusiastic parades observing Costa Rica's freedom from Spain in 1821. The highlight is an understudy multi stage sprint over the whole Central American isthmus, conveying a "flexibility burn" from Guatemala to Cartago (the first capital of Costa Rica). 

October 12 El Día de la Raza (Columbus Day; Limón Province as it were). Focused on the jamboree, which happens in the week before October 12. 

November 2 All Souls' Day. Families visit graveyards to offer their regards to their precursors. 

Christmas Week The prior week Christmas is praised in San José with firecrackers, bullfights and funfairs. 

December 25 Christmas Day. Family-arranged festivals with treks to the shoreline and much utilization of apples and grapes. 

December 27 San José Carnival. Enormous parade with vivid buoys and a lot of music.

In any case your Costa Rica excursions falls in one or two of these dates, try not to miss out on the celebrations that the nation has in store.