Blogs from Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 93

On to "Costa Rica"Ross OlsenIt would be great if we could transport ourselves between locations like "Scottie" or "Dr Who". No, we´re all herded into great metal cylinders, stacked, packed and tortured on long haul flights, transit lounges, in and out of airports......someone has to invent a better way. If it wasn´t for destinations like Costa Rica, we´d all stay home. Travelling to Mal Pais and Santa Teresa you might consider you were never going to arrive. You might even consider turning back as the roads narrow and quickly turn into into an ugly mess of pot holes and ravines resembling something akin to the surface of the moon. Mal Pais and St Teresa is a sleepy little area (at least in the off season) that essentially share the same stretch of beach disturbed on occasion ... read more

In Pursuit of the Elusive Quetzal Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Santa Elena By TicoTime May 6th 2007 Bell Bird One of the top two most sought after birds in all of Costa Rica (out of many hundreds), second only to the resplendent Quetzal. Its call reverberates through the jungle for a 1 mile radius and sounds... Wow, a lot sure has happened since May 4... Hope your seat belts are buckled. First thing in the morning on Jenny´s birthday, she went to check out of our hotel (Casa Real in Liberia) before we went for Desayunos across the street, an Iguana jumped down off of a roof right in front of her. I heard her scream and jump back and saw the beast, about as long as your arm. Very cool, and Jenny ... 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