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Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Cartago » Turrialba November 11th 2019

JOHNNY'S JOURNEYS: COSTA RICA 1999 July 29, 1999 (Thursday) One of our dental assistants, Sandy Smith, gave each of us a small wooden cross necklace to wear for the trip. We shall give them to the Ticos (Costa Rican people) later. We said our good-byes to family members as we left the LaQuinta Inn in Metarie, LA. We are soon at the New Orleans airport and will be on our way to Central America. Our first stop was in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Some passengers left... others got on. Then we had a relatively short flight to San Salvador, El Salvador. The lovely airport in the capital city was new. One hour later we were finally heading to San Jose. We all breezed through Customs and all our luggage, equipment and supplies arrived. It took less ... read more


We were sad to leave Golfito. We really enjoyed our time there. We had a beautiful and comfortable accommodation with a million dollar view, lovely meals, quiet and extra sleep! We had breakfast the day we left for the second time at a nice spot on the Main Street called cafe Mercadito; run by an American woman who had lived in Costa Rica for about 10 years, 8 in Golfito. She had a black 3 legged dog that was the sweetest thing. They made good breakfast and good coffee. Top priorities for a long travel day. We left Golfito a little later than ideal. We made a stop at a brewery in a small beach side town called Dominical. The Fuego brewery was excellent. Housed in a very nicely and well constructed building (rare in Costa ... read more
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San Gerardo is the base for hiking Chirripo, at 3820m Costa Rica’s highest mountain, though that’s not the only reason we’ve come here. Our guidebook makes it sounds like a scenic small village nestled in the hills with a few good accommodation options, and while we’re here I’ll see if I can be tempted to climb the mountain The decision on Chirripo turns to be easy. J isn’t interested in the hike and I’m not keen to do this by myself as it is a fairly tough walk, but there aren’t any permits to stay in the park available for the next 4 days (a Dutch girl at our hostel gets the last one). It seems quite odd given this is low season and the village is all but deserted. Instead we find that there is ... read more


What is the ideal climate? It depends on everyone's preferences and metabolism! For me that enjoys animals of all kinds and plants a lot, I like a place that is green all year round. This is in the tropics mainly, but not a sea level. an altitude of about 1000 meters in the tropics, is perfect. It's like normal days of summer but with no extremes. That's what you have in all of central valley Costa Rica, but some places have the wow factor, like Atenas in the West, but also the very beautiful Orosi valley , South-East of Cartago. The Orosi valley is surrounded by little mountains that grow coffee on the slopes. The city of Orosi it not too big, and nature is very close on all sides. In same region, we visited the ... read more
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In 2015 while exploring a small town in central Costa Rica called Monteverde, I stumbled into a tour guide establishment and grabbed several of the brochures that were advertising some of the most popular excursions in the country. In 2015 I was a newly graduated professional and in search of new adventures. One of the brochures was on the Volcan Irazu crater which looked amazing. This volcano crater was something new which I had to discover for myself. During a study abroad trip with University of South Florida in 2014 we visited Arenal Volcano which was amazing, although Irazu national park provided the opportunity for observers to hike up the face of the mountain and observe the volcano crater. Inside the Volcan Irazu crater there is a lake that changes color from aqua blue to blood ... read more
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While the majority of our MacServe group headed out early for a day tour to Tortuguero, Renata and I decided to go on a guided half day tour to Irazu Volcano and Cartago City with Gray Line Costa Rica. We had an exceptionally clear day, so we had a great view of the Irazu Volcano in the distance. We also saw the massive craters that were made from the Irazu volcano eruption in the 1960’s. After our time at Irazu Volcano National Park, we headed over to Cartago. I thought that we would get a tour of the city, but we were only there for about 15 minutes before we left to go back to San Jose. There was this interesting farmers and artisan market that I wanted to check out. Instead we were dropped off ... read more
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Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Cartago » Cartago January 28th 2017

Automatka maalle. Lähdettiin autolla klo 10 itään. Ensimmäinen kohde oli Orosin vanha kirkko. Ajettiin katsomaan kymmeniä vuosia vanhaa patoa. Vehreää maastoa ja kapeita teitä. Sitten Ujirrasin kirkon rauniot. Lounas paluumatkalla Cartagossa. Ajettiin sen tulivuoren ohi jonka purkauksesta leviää tätä nykyään tuhkaa myös San Joséhen. Aloin juoda hanavettä ihan kokonaan.... read more
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Hola Amigos! I’m here for nearly 5 months now, the semester is over and I still can’t believe how fast it went. Already a month ago we visited Dos Pinos, the biggest food company and producor of dairy products. Very interesting, I’ve never seen a spray dryer of that size! There was literally a house, build for the machine. Then the last week of the university, my time was packed with presentations and handovers. I was studying for the final exams, two on Tuesday and one on Wednesday, the 29th of June. The last laboratory of this semester was just for fun. We made ice cream with three different toppings without writing reports, so it was more like a birthday party for some kids. As the semester is nearly over, the first ones are already leaving. ... read more
Gira a Dos Pinos
Paradise has never been about places. It exists in moments. In connection. In flashes across time.
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