Blogs from Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 6

Sorry for the big delay. So this past week was absolutely crazy with 3 concerts in 3 days. The first concert, on Thursday, was canceled due to the choir from Panama not being able to get here in time. That concert was supposed to be held in the University and I was planning to run over after my dance class, but sadly it was not to be. :p Friday was for the Susan G. Korman Breast Cancer Association here in Costa Rica. It was a lot of fun and we ended up traveling to this Childrens Museum in San Jose that was actually a former prison. It was really pretty amazing to see the entrance at night because they lit torches down this huge tunnel you needed to walk through to enter the museum. You got ... read more

This cloudy forest is the proud of costaricans. Amazing landscapes, wild life , fauna, flora, wonderfull sunsets,skywalks,romantic places,exotic rivers, canopy.... like the heaven.. this is the meaning of monteverde, the paradise of million people likes to watch exotic birds, quiet walks on natural trails full of vegetation and weird animals better known as part of the costa rica's seven wonders and has been callen by national geographic the jewel in the crown of cloud forest reserves. The bulk of Monteverde's rain forest and cloud forest can be found in the Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde, a private nature reserve created in 1972 by scientist George Powell and Quaker Wilford Guindon. The area around the park entrance is the most visited, though camping deep in the reserve is possible with reservations. Nine main trails, which total 13 ... read more

We had a specialised natural history tour in the cloud forest on Monday, seeing another huge variety of new plants and animlas. There is a tree here which still has no official scientific name, also a new type of assassin bug. Our guide showed us specialised strangler figs and strange plants, including one which makes your mouth bleed if you are stupid enoug to bite it. The place we are staying is a branch of the campus of the Universitry of Georgia, so there is a good library and lots of experts on hand to help to undertand what we see. We are staying in wooden huts and the whole campus is surrounded on all side by the jungle. In the afternoon we had an introduction to tropical insects, including an opportunity to collect some and ... read more

We left the arenal and our luxurious hotel yesterday morning and travelled for 4 and a half hours on un made up roads into the monteverde mountains to our basic university accommodation located in a cloud forest. The road was so bad that half of us had to shift to the opposite side of the bus to counterbalance it whilst manoevreing around a pothole....so big it could have tipped us over! After dinner, a lucky few managed to see an opossum and an olenka which were feeding on the ripe bananas. The night walk was cancelled due to the heavy rain and so a table tennis tournament ensued. Ollie triumphed in the singles tournament and Callum and Miss Slade won the doubles very convincingly!! This morning we went on a trek through the forest with an ... read more

More from our Laz Paz Waterfall Garden extravaganza.... (No time to write, must go explore....I´ll let the pictures speak for themselves...)... read more

so we woke up @ 8 this morning and headed toward la fortuna by taxi to get to the boat that was gonna take us across lake arenal, on of the largest lakes in costa rica...but on the way our taxi broke down, got a flat tire, and drove 2 miles an hour..making us late for the first boat. So we arrived in La fortuna about 2hrs after we anticipaited...but it was a fun trip. across the lake we were at the foothills of one of the 10 most active volcanos in the world peering up at is massiveness. There were clouds covering the peek and eagles circling the clouds...a bliss to say the least. On the way there we ran into to british girls that my roadmates were talking to the night before and trash ... read more

Nos despertamos temprano esta mañana, to get ready for our plans that we made the night before in between our horrible salsa and wandering of this town. On the floor of out dorm room clothes were strewn every where. I guess we stumbled in after the bar and just cleared our beds and crashed...so we picked up opened the window to disperse the strong aroma of 3 dudes that havent showered in three days, which I finally got a hot one in today, and headed to the front of the hostel. I grabbed a cup of coffee and went outside to the burrito vender and got me a breakfast burrito, which ·I regretted the rest of the day....damn gas from beans. Our shuttle picked us up at around 9 and we headed to the sante elana ... read more