Ara Macaw, the bird of 1-costaricalink.com
 Costa Rica has an immense variety of birds. Ricardo and Carlos Vilchez gave us the copyright for the photos of his beautiful book 'Todo Costa Rica' when we started this Web-Site in 1999. The bird of our logo, was scanned from that book. On Sunday 4th of June 2006 we decided to give the bird a more dynamic background. The result can be seen on every page at the top. The original picture was taken at the Zoo Ave in La Garita in Alajuela with a tele-objective. 
Here you'll find:
Beautiful pictures and descriptive text about Costa Rica, what to do and where to stay, vacation and tours, packages, rent a car companies, information on flora, fauna, trees, travel advisories, honey-moon packages, anniversary and retirement packages, weather and climate and thousands of pictures .
Most of the pictures have a 90% quality to keep them nice but fast enough. If you want high quality pictures (1024x768 pixels) to copy for your computer or other private use, you'll find some here. We are using three different kinds of cameras for our pictures. The underwater pictures or pictures in the rain with the Sea-Master have a different proportion than the bulk of our photos that have a 2:3 proportion. These are taken with a SONY DSC-R1 Zeiss Vario Sonar 24-135 and its Macro or Tele-Objectives. The third camera is also a SONY and serves as emergency-camera. Some of the original pictures we take have a size of 10.3 Mega pixels. If you want some of them for private or not competitive purposes, please use the 'Permission to Copy' link at the bottom of the page. Many visitors of our web-site take advantage of this opportunity.
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