http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 15:55:40 +0000 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:55:40 +0000 WOW what an amazing day We ended up with only seven going and managed to get everyone into one car but wow what a GREAT day of friends and fun We met at the bakery next to Danny39s around 1030am. Loaded up and headed west first stopping to get gas and supplies. On to a place called Cap Cana which is just one HUGE park like area. Our first advenure began at Scape Park blue hole swimming are http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Dominican-Republic/Bavaro/blog-786792.html Cosat Rica 2013 Day 3Tortuguero Day 2After our late night of unsuccessfully looking for turtles we woke up a bit later than usual... at 730am. Today is our 39th wedding anniversary so we plan on doing and eating whatever we want to. We39d already told the lodge staff we wouldn39t be eating dinner in the lodge. Around 830 or so one of the lodge staff knocked on our door and asked if w http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Limon/Tortuguero/blog-786696.html We had a massive day today We had to be up at 6am so Olly naturally blasted out Troublemaker again at us Nooooo We had breakie included in our hotel for the next 2 days which was good for saving money as we are just burning through cash in Costa Rica cos it is so expensive It was simple fruit toast and some eggs but not too bad. We all piled into the van again and drove for about 20 mins http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Monteverde/blog-786675.html We were meeting at a relatively reasonable time this morning 8.30am. We had read that the Rainforest Cafe had the best reviews for food in La Fortuna and we only had one meal left to try it so we threw our stuff together and headed down the road to try it out. The coffee was fantastic. We are slowly getting used to having full cream milk. Its gonna be weird going back to skinny milk when we ar http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Monteverde/blog-786624.html Costa Rica Day 2Alajuela to TortugueroAfter a decent cup of coffee at the hostel we headed to the bus stop to start our trip to Tortuguero. Rather than bore you with the details of our extremely long trip to Tortuguero I39ll just to a brief synopsis. At right around 7am we boarded a Station Wagon bus to San Jose. The trip took about 20 minutes and cost about 600 Colones each. From the Es http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Limon/Tortuguero/blog-786571.html 17513 Nassau BahamasAvast there me hearties Up fed and out Nassau awaits the proper pirate stronghold home of Blackbeard and other fearsome and fascinating buccaneers of the high seas. Arrrr Jim lad this be the place I wants to see.First though we had to get off walk the plank I mean along the pier go through the welcome centre run the gauntlets of taxi touts hair braiding ladies to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-786542.html 15513 Grand TurkWe were up early as we were excited to get off the ship and explore. Grand Turk is a tiny island a British Colony and former pirate hangout. From the balcony we could just see the tip of the island and it is very flat with white beaches green palm trees and sea every shade of blue and green imaginable.After disembarking we walked along the pier to the welcome building http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Turks-and-Caicos/Grand-Turk/blog-786541.html It was another early morning bus for us on February 6th. When we got to our connecting city we rushed to the other bus station where we caught a bus heading to the border just in time. We were not able to sit together but I was just glad we didn39t have to wait hours for a bus. We did however not have time for a meal and just got a drink and bag of chips. Once the bus started to clear out I mo http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Panama/Panama-City/blog-786539.html We woke up a little before 5 am to catch a 530 am bus to Quepos. We were told that someone at our hostel Chill Out Backpackers is always in the office by 5 am. This was not the case and since they had our 20 key deposit we were frantically trying to figure out what room the employee was in. 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