Blogs from Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 98

Nantore! This is hello in Ngabe. I spent 8 days hiking and talking for 8 hours straight in the Conte Burica Reserva in Punta Burica Costa Rica. This is a pennisula that is divided in half, part in Panama and part in Costa Rica. To get there you must wait for low tide, walk 1.5 on the beach, then an 1.5 straight up a mountain. It was lots of fun with my backpack! I was helping translate for a girl named Katie who is trying to organize a mono arana conservation project in the park. Many people seemed interested and I learned a lot about Ngabe life in this area. Pictures and more will come latter, I think the Bocas water may be getting to my stomach finally. ... read more

Na twee weken buffelen op de duikschool, mag Suus eindelijk op vakantie. Yes! Ian en Suus samen de hort op. Wat een heerlijkheid. We hebben zo´n zin om lekker te gaan rondcrossen in een 4wheel drive, joehoe! Huurauto geregeld via Brenda van Rich Coast Diving. Amper vertrokken of we hebben ons eerste snelheidsbekeuring al binnen. Afgekocht met veel te veel dollars (we zijn beginners hierin....). Koelbox gekocht in Liberia, volgegooid met kouwe drankjes. Toeristische route genomen, lekker gezwommen onderweg in een heerlijk riviertje waar Ian nog een schoonheidsbehandeling van wat volborstige jonge giechelende Tica´s krijgt. Kilometers palmbomen en vergezichten over de Pacific. Uiteindelijk ´s avonds aangekomen in Manuel Antonio. Kamer met zeezicht... moet je altijd maar afwachten als je een kamer huurt als het al donker is. Maar we worden nie... read more

This is my second time trying to write this journal, so if you get it twice I apologize. We arrived in Jaco Beach mid morning. We drove here at a snails pace as the roads from the central valled wind around the mountain with steep hair pin turns. We pray we have good breaks. Spent the day on the beach and went into town to shop. Its very touristy and quite expensive. Lot of americans. Its a surfers town. Had a great dinner that evening recommended by a local. Bought some nice jewellery and pottery. The hotel is worn and not too nice. Good thing we are only here for one night. We are off to the other side - pacific side of the mountains tomorrow called Monteverde Cloud Forest.... read more

Happy Holidays! Greetings from the sun, the sand and the surf! We are having a very different holiday experience than the one we are both used to back at home! So we finally met up with our good buddy Erik in a little surf town on the southern tip of the Nicoya Pennisula called Mal Pais/Santa Theresa (basically a gravel strip with shops all along it spread between two municipalities). We have been living it up as surf bums for almost the last three weeks. Life is pretty simple down here; eat, sleep and surf, which has caused the two of us absolutely no problems getting used to. We have met a bunch of excellent people while we have been here (Dave, Matt, Pedro, Laura, Shawna, CJ, Sophie, Gord, Andrew) and have enjoyed hanging out with ... read more

Hola from Costa Rica! We are missing everybody..especially over Christmas! We checked into getting a phone card to call everyone, but they are very hard to find...as well as the pay phones! We will call everybody when we make it back to Panama sometime in January, but just wanted to let everybody know we were fine. Thank you for all of the emails and we will reply when we have a better internet connection! Miss you all! Also, will upload some more pics when we get a chance! The digs are a little more primitave at this point!... read more