http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Costa Rica , Cartago , Cartago en-us Wed, 09 Dec 09 17:33:29 +0000 Wed, 09 Dec 09 17:33:29 +0000 When you are a young European about to leave your country to spend a couple of months in Central America you feel anxious overwhelmed and uncomfortable. After spending 3 months here the feeling which predominates is sadness. Indeed Costa Rica is a pleasant country where you can easily think about not going back home There are too many attractive aspects to Costa Rican lifestyle to ignore the http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-433361.html Hello everyone this blog will be dedicated to our past volunteers who we have a great news for Indeed Tropical Adventures has decided to offer a special discounts for all of you who came to visit us at least once. Yes we miss you so much that we want to see all you again at any price Thus we offer a 35 discount for all our regular one week projects you should jump on it now People co http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-431369.html Today we all live in a world full of new technologies and everybody is fond of progress. All of us are looking forward to a brand new car that we canrsquot afford anyway just to have it. We all think that you could not live without the Internet or even without a computer any more.All of us Not exactly. If you are looking for a remote place where 13 years old kids donrsquot have a cell pho http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-429817.html Last December and January we had the honor to share with all the communities where we work throughout Costa Rica. In total 4 big Christmas Parties for all of our kids and for the Retirement Home in Bambu. We also hosted a huge Summer Camp for 100 kids in the Puerto Viejo Beach Area for 4 days. This is the best time to visit Costa Rica not only because is summer time here in this part of the wor http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-429290.html When anyone goes on vacation and leaves for a special place there are two goals.The first one is to enjoy time on holidays get a tan and feel troublefree during vacation. The second goal is to be able to tell about the amazing time and how beautiful the country was. We all do that. Only problem all our friends will get bored easily because they have heard it all before. Beaches palmtrees wa http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-425626.html For almost five years now Tropical Adventures has been providing help and support to all the communities with which the Foundation has been working. In this sense we can consider our actions successful but as you already know we are too dependent on the context of external decisions politics e.g. to keep a budget steady. This is the drawback of being a nonprofit we canrsquot anticipate m http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-423157.html Nowadays something is happening to the world. People start to worry about the place we live and feel more and more concerned about ecological issues. It is a good point but we have to be careful about the way to do it and be very vigilant about who to trust in.When you want to travel and to discover a new country the safe reflex is to get informed about who you are going to travel with and esp http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-421104.html Living in Costa Rica these five years I have learned much about myself other people and the similarities and differences in cultures. Recently there was a survey posted on CNN announcing Costa Rica as the happiest country in the world. This was based on general contentment life expectancy and ecological footprint. While there are areas which could use improvement I generally agree with this. In http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-420368.html aujourd hui nous somme partie de la vale de Orosi. pas grand choses a rajoute nous avons voyage maggie et moi en bus et surtout attendu toute la journee j ai regler mon probleme d argent certaines banques fonctionnent avec ma carte ok je vous envois de nouvelles photos http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-402457.html Bonjour tout le mondevoila maintenant deux jours que nous sommes dans le merveilleux pays du Costa Rica... cest genialNous sommes arrives a San jose et un tico ultra sympa du nom de fernando nous a fait visite son taxi et de multiples hotels pour enfin poser le pied dans un hotel au dessus de nos moyens... evidemment Bienvenue au Costa rica. La capitale cest pas donneOn se rencontre bien que ces http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-402106.html One of the first Spanish phrases I learned here in Costa Rica was ldquoQue Ricordquo This means ldquothatrsquos deliciousrdquo Itrsquos no surprise I hear this sentence a lot because Costa Rican food is really delicious. Costa Rica is famous for a lot of delicacies and one of them is chocolate.There is a big variety of kinds of chocolates made in Costa Rica such as ldquoSibu cho http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-386800.html After going through all of my blogs I was disappointed to see that I had not written much about my experience at Sistema Educativo Saint Clare and I apologize. It is after all the reason I came here and has been just as much an adventure as surfing in Nicaragua or eating the innards of a cow. My student teaching experience in Costa Rica has been amazing and I donrsquot think I could have aske http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-350461.html Recently Steve and I made our way to the nearby town of Cartago in hopes of catching a bus to the top of Volcan Irazu which is the tallest active volcano in Costa Rica. Everything was going great. We made it to Cartago early with a map of the town in hand and found the bus stop for Irazu or at least what the map said was the bus to Irazu. Turns out the map was wrong and we missed the bus but o http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-335166.html Well its still winter here in Costa Rica which means one thinghellip RAIN It has been raining just about every day down here. The mornings are usually beautiful and just like clockwork everyday as I leave school to walk home the sky lets go and it pours. However we still find time to enjoy the country.A few weekends ago we Travis Steve Ali and I made our way to the Caribbean beach to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-328728.html It seems to be one of the great laws of the universe that nothing goes as planned. This is not always a bad thing as I have learned in the past and was reminded of a couple weekends ago. The plan was this Travis and I were going to meet up with a group of teachers from Saint Clare on Friday night to cook dinner and to present a slideshow of pictures from Travisrsquo trip to the top of Chirri http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-326902.html Well itrsquos been just about two weeks since I arrived here in Costa Rica and everything is going great. I have been enjoying my time at Saint Clare very much. I spent most of my classroom time last week observing my two cooperating teachers Alexandra and Rebecca. Both were originally biologists who found that they enjoyed teaching science just as much as they like doing research. They ar http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-318767.html And so the trip begins. I arrived in San Jose Costa Rica on Tuesday August 19th. The day started early with an alarm clock at 330am so that I could get everything ready for my 700 flight. The first flight to Charlotte NC went really well as I slept for all but the last half hour of it. I then had to catch a flight from Charlotte to San Jose but before we could board the plane we had to f http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Cartago/Cartago/blog-314624.html