Blogs from Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 432

Nous avons quitte Monteverde pour aller voir le volcan Arenal, un volcan en activite depuis 1968. Il crache des pierres et de la lave presque chaque soir et nous voulions aller admirer ce phenomene. Finalement, apres avoir passe 2 jours dans cette ville, nous n'avons reussi a voir le volcan que pendant 30 secondes, entre deux nuages...a croire qu'il n'existait pas! Nous avons quand meme pu aller nous baigner la nuit dans des eaux thermales et avons marche en foret (pour finalement ne voir qu'un paresseux et des dindes volantes, mais bon...). La premiere nuit, notre hotel a ete attaque par un ou des voleurs. Chaque chambre a ete touchee, sauf la notre et celle d'un autre Canadien...haaaa...le Canada veille sur nous a l'etranger! Le voleur a defonce des vitres, s'est introduit dans des chambres, a ... read more

Lately I've gotten into this blog thing, therefore, I really want to share my scuba diving adventure when I was in Costa Rica. I visited alot of the country. I tried scuba diving for the first time while I was in Manuel Antonio with Manuel Antonio Divers. It was so cool breathing underwater with all this equipment. The instructor was right there to offer all the help that I needed. I saw turtles out in the ocean, white tip sharks, zebra eels it was so cool. Now I will go ahead and get my certification so I can dive any where I travel in the world. Manuel Antonio Divers gave me my start and they really opened up a whole new world for me. The rest of the country is awesome, they have some great coffee ... read more

We came down to the Osa Pennisual to visit Nastassia's friend Kate (they worked in whistler together) who is teaching English just outside of Peurto Jiminez for a year. We met up with her and made some plans to venture into the wild Corcovado National Park to see some untamed jungle life. With a few tents rented, we caught a collectivo (truck taxi) to the park entrance and hiked 3kms down the beach to a beautiful campsite. From here we did two, one-day hikes; one down the rugged and very beautiful coast, the other into the jungle depths. Nastassia managed to contract a mysterious case of food poisoning on the second day (despite eating everything identical to us) and was quite out of commision. But needless to say we had a great time and saw lots ... read more

To get to Costa Rica, the final leg of our voyage in Nicaragua consisted of a 10 hr overnight ferry ride to the southern end of lake Nicaragua. Luckly it didn't rain so Ben found a place to stretch out on the deck while Nastassia scored a bench all to herself inside. We even managed to catch a few hours of shut eye in between all the stops on the way down the lake. Three stops later we pulled into the town of San Carlos at the entrance to the Rio San Juan which drains Lake Nicaragua into the Caribbean. From here we cleared Nicaraguan immigration and then hopped aboard a smaller boat and went up the Rio Frio into Costa Rica. This was a cool ride, with spottings of turtles, monkeys, crocodiles and numerous birds ... read more

So I asked around town in Santa Teresa where all the hostels were and came across Tranquilo Backpackers. There also one in San Jose, not exactly cheap but $10 a night on that peninsula was cheap. After I settled in I borrowed some books and headed out to the beach. For the next few days all I did was sit at this resort called Luz de Vida cuz they had the hammocks on the beach. There was never anyone there using them so there would be days when all I did was sit from 11am till the sun set sometime at 5am. Every now and then I would get up and get in the water, then back to reading, then taking a nap or eating my snacks. My god it was soooo cool, I miss it ... read more