Tourism in Nicaragua has experienced a large amount of growth, and it has become the second biggest industry in the country. President Daniel Ortega has expressed his intentions to fight poverty in the country through tourism. Nicaragua has reaped benefits from tourism in the areas of commercial business, agriculture, finance industries, and the construction industry.

Throughout the 1980s Nicaragua wasn’t considered a desirable place to travel due to the Nicaraguan Revolution. However, since that time the country’s unrest has ceased and tourism is making a huge comeback. In the last seven years, tourism in Nicaragua has increased about seventy percent. The country is a tourist attraction due to its flora, landscapes, wildlife, beaches, culture, lakes, and volcanoes. The main attractions are the beaches, scenic roads, and beautiful architecture of its buildings.

In 2005, 803,933 tourists came to Nicaragua, which was a jump from 579,165 in 2002. Nicaragua’s tourism industry gained $240 million, which is more than the earnings from their top money earner, coffee. Nicaragua has even surpassed the country of Panama in the number of tourists who visited. Most of the visitors traveled from Europe, the U.S., and Central and South America. Around 60,000 U.S. tourists go to Nicaragua every year, which mainly consist of business people, those visiting relatives, and tourists.

Tourist reports have stated that the colonial city of Granada is the most popular location for tourists, as well as the cities of Leon, Masaya, and Rivas. Other popular attractions are San Juan del Sur, San Juan River, Ometepe, and Mombacho Volcano.

Besides beautiful beaches, nature tours, wildlife, and tropical rainforests, Costa Rica has a great nightlife to entertain tourists. There are a lot of great places to visit after the sun goes down and you’ve spend the day relaxing on the beach or snorkeling. However, if you really want to party in Costa Rica, you will have to wait until around ten o’clock, when the nightlife becomes more lively. So, before you go out to check out the party scene you will want to visit some of the great restaurants Costa Rica has to offer. In Costa Rica you can find food that includes Peruvian, Tai, Chinese, Chilean, Argentinean, German, Japanese, and U.S. chain restaurants such as TGI Friday’s and Tony Roma’s, as well as all the fast food you can eat. Also, all the U.S. restaurants deliver, even McDonald’s.

Of all the great things to experience in Costa Rica, dancing shouldn’t be left out. Costa Ricans love to dance, and they are good at it. People in the country take dancing serious, and almost every couple takes lessons, which are cheap, and go out to shake what they’ve have. But, if you’re one of those people with two left feet, you may prefer to sit back and enjoy some live music while vacationing in Costa Rica. You can always catch some live music from chamber music to Spanish Flamenco dancers and world famous soloists to hot Latin bands. The venues for live musical performances range from stadium to the National Theater.

If you go on vacation to Costa Rica, you not only have the option of seeing some of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world, you can also enjoy exciting night life. Located a short distance from the downtown Holiday Inn, El Pueblo offers more than 100 bars, restaurants, clubs, shops, and galleries. Also, there are cultural activities at The National Theater such as a Philharmonic Orchestra. The National Theater building is a beautiful site to see. It was erected in the 1880s and has the design of a Paris Opera house. In the 1960s the National Theater put on a dinner for former President Kennedy and the first lady.

Now, Costa Rica offers the City Lights Dinner Tour located at the Ram Luna restaurant. To get to it you travel a half hour up a steep mountain road, where the restaurant overlooks San Jose at an elevation of 4,700 feet. This location provides some of the best views of San Jose at night. A fireplace and candle lit tables brings a great atmosphere by which you can enjoy a huge dinner buffet prepared by Chef Rogelio Carballo. Not only is the food and drinks good, but you can enjoy great live music. After dinner and some music, the tour takes on a more party atmosphere as you take in a cultural show by the “Payaso’s of Aserri”, which culminates with a short fireworks display. The tour includes transportation to and from your hotel in San Jose.

If you want to plan an unforgettable vacation that is full of lots of things to see and do, Costa Rica just might be the place you’re looking for. Even though Costa Rica is a small country, it is packed with a wide variety of plant and animal life and many activities and natural wonders. Costa Rica has something to offer everyone.

Costa Rica offers beautiful national parks and protected areas and hotels with spectacular views. However, if you’re a true nature lover, you may just want to pitch a tent and enjoy its natural beauty under the stars. Costa Rica is home to pristine jungles and tropical rainforests and active volcanoes. You can view daily volcano eruptions at volcanoes such as Volcan Arenal, Irazu, or Poas. You can lounge on stunning beaches such as Cahuita, Pavones, and Drakes Bay. Also, Tamarindo, Playa Grande, Playa Negra, and Playa Ocotal can provide you with an amazing surfing, snorkeling, or sport fishing experience. If all that isn’t enough, you can go white water rafting on the Rios Pacuare, Revenatzon, or Parrita.

The rainforests, cloud forests, and tropical dry forests of Costa Rica contain an amazing variety of birds, monkeys, lizards, sloths, snakes, frogs, and butterflies. Some of the rarest wildlife in the world is there such as the Scarlet Macaw, and Morpho butterflies.

However, if you’re not a huge nature lover, Costa Rica offers night life on the Southern Caribbean Coast at locations such as Puerto Viejo and Cahuita.

“Pure Life” is the best way to describe a vacation to Costa Rica. Costa Rica has so much to offer, amazing natural beauty, thrilling adventures, friendly people, a relaxing lifestyle, and picturesque views from your hotel. Costa Rica is a small country, and is an example of the great things that the simple life has to offer. It’s no wonder why Costa Rica has been dubbed “the happiest place on earth”. Its people are the most content, it has the world’s best biodiversity ecosystem, and the highest life expectancy. Regardless of what your interests are, whether it’s relaxing on the beach, surfing, or observing nature, Costa Rica offers a vacation that you will never forget.

Even though Costa Rica only consists of .1% of Earth’s land surface, it contains 5% of the world’s biodiversity. The country is a nature-lover’s paradise. Costa Rica has twenty-six national parks and protected areas all over the country and contains a large array of animal and plant species. Not only is the animal and plant life diverse, each area of the country has a diverse climate to enjoy. Costa Rica has beautiful hotels, resorts, and lodges, but also can be enjoyed from a camping site out in nature and under the stars. Costa Rica is nature at its best. Here you can see amazing jungles and tropical rainforests, diverse plant and animal life, active volcano eruptions, and breathtaking beaches. On a Costa Rica vacation, you can enjoy surfing, swimming, snorkeling, sport fishing, and white water rafting.

Costa Rica is the home of a large variety of plants and animals, which makes it a great vacation destination for the wildlife enthusiast. The country only consists of about .1% of the world’s landmass, but it has 5% of the world’s biodiversity. About 25% of Costa Rica’s land consists of protected national parks and other protected areas, and has the biggest percentage of protected area in the world.

One of its national parks is known all over the world by ecologists for its biodiversity. It is Corcovado National Park and visitors can certainly see a wide variety of wildlife at this location. This is the only park in the country where all four Costa Rican monkey species dwell. The four monkeys are: the White-headed Capuchin, the Mantled Howler, the endangered Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey, and the Central American Squirrel Monkey.

Tortugeuero National Park contains spider, howler, and white throat monkeys, three-toed sloths, two-toed sloths, 320 bird species, and many different reptiles. This park is the location of the largest annual nesting site of the endangered green turtle. Also, the park is the site for the nesting of leatherback, hawksbill, and loggerhead turtles.

Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve contains about 2,000 plant species that include many orchids. More than 400 bird species and over 100 mammal species are located there as well. Overall, about 800 species of birds have been discovered in Costa Rica. And, if this isn’t enough, Costa Rica is a mecca of reptile and amphibian diversity and includes the world’s fastest running lizard, the spiny-tailed iguana.

The Grenadine Islands have a lot to offer vacationers, tourists, and honeymooners. Besides the beautiful scenery, white sandy beaches, and tropical climate there are an array of other activities to enjoy. To start of with, there is golf. Canouan Islands offers The Trump International Golf Club at Raffles Resort Canouan Island. It is home to the resort’s eighteen-hole, par seventy-two golf course. Also, there are tennis course courts at some of the hotels of the Grenadines. The island of Bequia has courts at four of its hotels, and there are other public courts as well. Palm Island has tennis courts, and the Raffles Resort CanouanIsland has a tennis complex that has four courts complete with flood lights for night games, a pro shop, equipment rental, and a professional player for tennis lessons.

The island of Mustique has a horseback riding stable and a guide that can take visitors for rides on the beach. If you like to shop, Bequia has many shops that cater to the boating and sailing clientele, or people who just enjoy boats. The book store there has a nice selection of books about boating, carved souvenirs, and knives.

The beaches in the Grenadine Islands are some of the most beautiful in the world. They are not crowded and remote, and some of them are only be gotten to by boat. All around the island of Bequia there are palm trees and great locations for relaxing, swimming, snorkeling, and walking. Some of the beach offer bars for lunch and drinks.

Agriculture, including banana produce, is the largest part of the Grenadine Island’s economy. However, tourism is also another important part of income for the islands. It has been difficult for the government to start new industries and there is a high unemployment rate of about twenty-two percent. That fact that the country is overly dependant on a single crop is the biggest hindrance to the economic growth of the Grenadine Islands. Also, tropical storms destroyed a large amount of crops in 1994 and 1995.

The development of tourism has great potential for the economic growth of the country in the next ten years. The filming of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies has helped the islands to gain more exposure and popularity with tourists. The recent growth has spurred on a lot of activity and construction projects that is helping tourism. One aspect of the new construction that is taking place is a new international airport that is currently being built.

The Grenadine Islands has a population of 118,149 as of 2008. The population consists of 66% Black, 6% East Indian, 19% mixed race, 2% Carib Amerindian, 4% White, and 3% other. Most of the population is people of African descent that were brought to the islands to work on plantations, and there is also a growing Chinese population. The Grenadines have a high immigration rate, but the very high unemployment rate causes population growth to become a significant problem. The official language of the Grenadines is English, but many there speak a dialect called Vincentian Creole.

The Grenadines is a nation that is located in the Lesser Antilles chain that lies at the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where it joins to the Atlantic Ocean. It has a size of 150 square miles and is made up of the main island of Saint Vincent and the other northern two-thirds of the Grenadines. These other smaller islands stretch from Saint Vincent Island to Grenada.

Located to the north of the Grenadines is St. Lucia, to the east Barbados, and to the south is Grenada. The Grenadine Islands have a population of 120,000 and the capital is Kingstown. The nation has a British and French colonial history and is now a part of the Commonwealth of Nations and CARICOM.

Saint Vincent was originally called ‘Hairouna’ by the Carib Indians. Carib Indians thwarted European colonization on St. Vincent until the eighteenth century. At that time, escaped African slaves left Barbados, St. Lucia, and Grenada and looked for refuge in St. Vincent. They married Caribs and were then called Garifuna or Black Caribs.

In 1719, French settlers took control of the island and began growing coffee, tobacco, cotton, indigo, and sugar on plantations. The plantations were worked by African slaves. In 1763, France gave control of St. Vincent to Britain, but later re-invaded the island in 1779 and eventually regained control. However, Britain later gained control again by the Treaties of Versailles of 1783. The Treaties of Versailles were lesser treaties under the Treaty of Paris of 1783.

Located nine miles to the south of St. Vincent, is Bequia, the biggest of the Grenadine Islands at seven square miles. The history of this island has been closely related to the sea for many generations. Traditions of boat-building, whaling, and fishing have been passed down for many years and are still part of the culture today. Another island of the Grenadines is Mustique. This island is three miles long and one and a half miles wide at its widest point. It has a large plain in the north and consists of seven valleys that have their own beach. There are also wooded hills that reach a height of 495 feet.

In the center of the Grenadine Islands is Canouan. It is a small island at only five square miles. However, the smallest inhabited island of the Grenadines is Mayreau. It is only one and a half square miles. Its population is at 250 residents. The only way to reach Mayreau is by boat and it is completely surrounded by beautiful, white, sandy beaches. It is a great location for snorkeling and sailing. However, there is perhaps an even better location for diving and snorkeling in the Grenadines. It is at Tobago Cays and its Horseshoe Reef that protects the five deserted islets that make it up. It boasts beautiful palm-dotted shores and excellent snorkeling and diving.

If you’re looking for a great place to relax, Palm Island would be the place to visit. It is a very small resort island located a mile from Union Island.