Blogs from Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 19

After Montezuma we made our way up the gravel road that the locals have refused paving for (to keep the tourism down) to Monteverde (Green Mountain). This place is beautiful and is just rolling hills for miles. We stayed in a farm stay which was great, yesterday we did a canopy zip wire through the forest in the cloud which was amazing followed by suspension bridges, butterfly gardens and a humming bird garden. A proper day out with nature! Photos attached are of me down the Tarzan swing!... read more

We just got back from a 2 city trip that included going to Monteverde and La Fortuna and this may have been the best trip yet. We spent a little bit of time trying to decide if we were going to go to Puerto Viejo or Monteverde-La Fortuna. Puerto Viejo would have been a very relaxing trip as it is a beach town on the Carribbean. In the end we took a chance and decided on the adventure type trip of Monteverde-La Fortuna. When we were heading back yesterday all four of us agreed that we made the right decision . . . a trip of a lifetime. We left for Monteverde at 6:30 am on Friday morning and even though it is only about 120 miles from San Jose it took 5 hours to ... read more

Good Morning! I'm back, Vince is still getting ready. We had pretty much the perfect day yesterday! We had a delicious buffet breakfast here at the hotel (which is run by Germans). Then it was off for the zipline tour! Wow! It was so fun! They have a bunch of ziplines that you take above the trees, some rappelling and a tarzan swing! We have some great pictures and video! The tarzan swing was SO scary! You pretty much jump off this platform from I don't know how high, and swing across the jungle. It was definitely one of the most fun things I ever did. After that, we headed over to the Monteverde cloud forest. But I'm sorry to say we didn't see any clouds in the cloud forest (have I mentioned how beautiful ... read more

Arrived in Monteverde and it is just packed with adventures to do. We are staying in a treehouse type hostel and are getting no sleep for building and road works buy what the heck!!!! We decided on the canopy tours through the rainforest first of all in St Elena and also did the hanging bridges tour and then did the extreme canopy tour in Monteverde the following day. Being slightly scared of heights, i was a bit nervous but St Elena was really cool....they strap you up via belts and pulleys and attach you to the zipline cord and then send you flying for ages, hundreds of feet up in the air above the rainforest, hanging by your belt from the cord...it was so cool and you get awesome views and the wind is blowing ... read more

Papa arrived safely (after some help from Joyce…THANK YOU JOYCE). Papa’s birthday was March 24th…so we started off his visit with a belated happy birthday cake. Grayson (like he did with Mokey) wanted to “help” blow out the candles. The next morning we headed out to Monteverde cloud forest. This is an area we had not visited previously. The last hour of the drive (30 kilometers) was unpaved, rutted roads. Papa and Grayson bounced around a lot in the backseat, but they were troopers. We read there is a reason why the roads are unpaved and the area isn’t easily accessible…..they would like to keep it remote and hard to access so that it maintains a bit of its small town charm. Monteverde is an interesting little town and the history intrigued us. Monteverde was founded ... read more