Hang on — surely you’re wrong about why I’m posting bowaleXO’s request. Read on, then visit the Nigerian blogger’s thoughtful site. Only then, comment below about what you think when bloggers request financial support from readers …
So I realised blogging is not cheap even with a free wordpress.com website. Thought producing original content may be a free gift from God, but it still requires Internet to be edited and posted online.
Like most African countries Internet Service in Nigeria is expensive, and when you manged to afford it you don’t get face value of what you are purchasing. I started bowalexo.wordpress.com two (2) months ago and because I always want to create new and original contents for the readers of bowalexo.wordpress.com I am always online and as a result of that I have spent in two (2) months what I would have spent within six (6) month on purchasing Internet Service
I recently found my ability and desire to write when I lost my job two (2) and half months ago and I have been using my saving to fund bowalexo.wordpress.com ever since and I fear…
A mere 0.1% of Earth’s landmass, Costa Rica harbors 5% of Earth’s biodiversity. Environmental protection is Costa Rica’s middle name. Ecotourism rewards Ticos (Costa Ricans) with jobs and commerce. Other countries take note: caring for Mother Nature pays off in $mucho$ $dinero$.
25% of its land is nationally protected. Compare that to the developing world’s average of 13% and the developed world’s average of 8%. Each Costa Rican drains the Earth a third less than each North American does.
Crops include coffee and sugar cane.
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From caterpillar to pupa to butterfly.
Optimism springs eternal at a taco stand.
Typical Costa Rica all day fare: rice, beans, stew, fresh grilled cheese, and thick bread
Varied sizes lessen mistakes.
Colorful Costa Rican currency features local wildlife.
Lively downtown San Jose.
A red macaw oversees a butterfly sanctuary.
These puffy little yellow birds were everywhere.
Costa Rican hummingbirds come in many colors and sizes including this iridescent green.
Coati
A coffee Plantation
These coffee berries taste sweet before they’re processed.
Coffee remains are composted.
A calf at the coffee plantation.
Milled ugar cane gets recycled into paper.
Sugar cane juice.
Sugar cane juice boiled into syrup.
Sugar cane syrup whipped into candy.
A bottle of Cacique: potent fermented sugar cane alcohol.
These insides of a cocoa bean taste sweet and nothing like processed chocolate.
Cocoa becoming chocolate.
Hanging bridges like this one let you view the cloud forest from up high.
A fern tree from below.
A fern tree from above.
Bromeliads like this one grow up high and are homes to frogs.
Bromeliads like this one grow in all colors on the ground.
Bug tracks on leaves.
What do you think about when you think of butterflies?
