I have been in Costa Rica for a few days now and so far I love it. The work is challenging enough but its not overbearing yet where i have to take the work back to my hotel. This saturday, I got to take a 12 hour tour outside of Costa Rica which included, a coffee plantation, Poas Volcano, rain forest and a boat tour to a banana plantation. Most of it was pretty good but I will just go over the Rainforest trip since it was the most disappointing yet fun tour. When we first arrived to the start of [View Full Entry]

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Here in Costa Rica we have experienced our 2nd significant earthquake in 2 days … I personally experienced the 4.0 magnitude yesterday while in the bathroom (tell me you didn’t just smile) and today's 6.2 magnitude while standing on a ladder helping my next-door neighbor secure a kitchen cabinet to a wall above a fridge. The ride on the ladder was more fun, but the ride on the porcelain was definitely more humorous. We were fortunate with just getting a good long & strong shaking … close but no damage. Others unfortunately did not do so well. Summary as of 9:00am, [View Full Entry]

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Hola! Hope everyone had a great weekend! I didn’t travel too far this weekend, but I did see a couple of neat things within an hour or so bus ride of my house. And I did plan this upcoming weekend adventure to Puerto Viejo. It’s supposed to be a really neat beach on the Carribean side, Northwest of where I am. It should be about 5 hours on the bus which I will be leaving on Friday right after class. I’m definitely looking forward to it because right now it is the summer season for the Carribean Coast, which means great [View Full Entry]

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Our last day of Spanish lessons and our teacher took us to her little girl´s school to enjoy the celebrations of the day of annexure of Guanacaste province (ex Nicaragua) to Costa Rica. All the kids looked great and all the yummy mummies were there also. It was lots of fun and David drew lots of glances with his strange eyes. He stands out because a) he´s bald and b) his eyes are a different colour. Today we take 3 buses to arrive at our accommodation at Vulcan Poas. This means we sleep on the side of a volcano for 3 [View Full Entry]

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The Poás Volcano (Volcán Poás) is located 71 kilometers or 44 miles Northeast of our house in Costa Rica. The attached picture was taken Sunday (04-20-08) near the top of our ascent to the Poás Volcano (Volcán Poás) at about 8,500 feet in the middle of Costa Rica. We have some more pictures posted online at http://BienvenidosCostaRica.dotPhoto.com, but unfortunately none of the pictures are of the Poás Volcano (pronounced: poe-oss) itself. During our entire visit the volcano crater was cloud covered. Kind of a bummer after an hour of driving straight-up in low gear on winding mountain [View Full Entry]

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Unser letzter Stop ALAJUELA Ein netter Taxler erklärt uns den Weg bis zu unserem Hostal Mango Verde, das wir in weiser Voraussicht reserviert haben. Dort angekommen lernen wir den netten Rezeptionist Diego kennen. Nachdem wir unser Zimmer bezogen haben und die Hausschildkröte mit dem Namen Lucas kennen gelernt haben, spazieren wir ein bisschen durch die Straßen und gehen zu dem Chinesen, den uns Diego empfohlen hat, Schrimps essen. Danach lassen wir den Abend in den Hängematten vor unserem Zimmer ausklingen und haben endlich die Möglichkeit, unsere, durch ganz Zentralamerika geschleppten, C [View Full Entry]

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Day 2. Look at the size of that sphere. By 8 am we have filled the bus and are off to visit the Poas Volcano. Having been warned that the volcanic caldera, or crater, is visible only 30% of the time, we are pleasantly surprised to find an absolutely clear sky guarding an aqua-colored lake—the startling color created by sulfurous fumes. I don’t think I’ll make it to the second crater—a beautiful clear-water lake. The one-half hour trek has me huffing and puffing after only a few feet, a combination of altitude and my recent bout with pneumonia. I am actually [View Full Entry]

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We took a fun day trip to Poas Volcano and La Paz Waterfall/Animal Reserve. Our first stop was the volcano - a beautiful drive up lush green fields including many strawberry farms. You park at the top and then walk to the crater, where you are greeted by the amazing sight of a huge crater with swirling gases mixing with clouds coming down from the slopes of the crater. And the boys immediately noticed the sulfur smell. During the half hour we stayed at the crater viewpoint, it would periodically be blanketed by clouds and then suddenly they would dissipate in [View Full Entry]

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We just got back from an amazing trip to Volcan Poas and La Paz waterfall garden on Saturday. It was INCREIBLE!!! Volcan Poas is at about 8000 feet elevation and the bus ride there had great views of the central valley as we went up the windy windy roads. As we got to higher elevation it began to rain acid rain from the volcano. Once we got to the top we hiked to a point where we were supposed to be able to see a Volcano but it was too cloudy and we could not see it. I guess we [View Full Entry]

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Hola a tod@s, Ayer por la tarde aterrizamos al aeropuerto de San Jose, la capital de Costa Rica. Un viaje de paliza ya que saliamos de Amsterdam a las 8 de la manana y volamos via Madrid con 2 horas de espera. Por suerte no fue tan duro para Angela ya que la hicieron un upgrade a Business Class!!!!!!! Mientras, Gonzalo se juntaba a "plebe"de economico (previa discusion de turno con la azafata rallada de Iberia...). Cogimos un taxi al hotel que reservamos ya desde Holanda hace unos dias. Todo fue muy facil. El hotel bien. Nos dieron la mejor [View Full Entry]

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