{"id":1971,"date":"2010-02-03T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2010\/02\/explore-la-flor\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:44:41","slug":"explore-la-flor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/explore-la-flor\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore La Flor"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px;\">If you&#8217;re traveling to Central America and interested in the incredible diversity of the Pacific slope of Nicaragua, please consider taking a tour with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorelaflor.com\/\">Explore La Flor<\/a>, an eco-tour company born of our initiative to empower communities by launching entrepreneurs and training community nature guides.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px;\">As the tourism sector grows in Nicaragua, nature tourism has the potential to provide economic benefit to local communities while also supporting conservation efforts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px;\">Paso Pacifico provides training and business development for hospitality entrepreneurs from rural villages. After extensive nature guide training these young adults launched\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorelaflor.com\/\">Explore La Flor<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kayaks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Photo: Community guides in their kayaks\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">explore\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">the mangrove forest\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">in an estuary near Ostional.<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(Not pictured: the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Howler monkeys\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>sounding off in the trees.)<\/i><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re traveling to Central America and interested in the incredible diversity of the Pacific slope of Nicaragua, please consider taking a tour with\u00a0Explore La Flor, an eco-tour company born of our initiative to empower communities by launching entrepreneurs and training community nature guides. As the tourism sector grows in Nicaragua, nature tourism has the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community-engagement-and-empowerment","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}