Blogs from La Fortuna, Alajuela, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 13

This morning we set off in the morning for a jeep boat jeep ride to the next door town of La Fortuna. I say next door, we went the quick way which took about 3.5 hours and is the favoured tourist route. If we had taken the local bus it would have been 8 hours because instead of going over the lake you have to go round it. While we were in La Fortuna we went to Volcan Arenal where we saw lava spilling out of it, as it was dark it was a spectacular sight, like fireworks on a mountain side. We were very lucky to see it because when we arrived there was a cloud covering the volcano but after about half hour it had been blown away so we were able to get ... read more

we´re glad you all loved the pics!!...unfortunately, we won´t be posting anymore after today. camera broke yesterday...**sobs**. not quite sure what we´re going to do about it yet, but we´ll try to figure something out. BUT we managed to have a good day anyways. we spent the morning hiking the Fortuna waterfall, which was sooo pretty but too packed with turists. in the evening we took a tour through the rainforest, went to a lookout to watch the lava flow from Volcan Arenal, and then went do the Baldi hotsprings to relax. sigh, now that was nice! today we´re heading to Monteverde to do the ziplines and hike through the cloud forest (the same thing as a rain forest, but it´s elevation is so high that it´s in the clouds, so we´ve been told). we´ll ... read more

url='/Videos/3731.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3731.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Flying ¡Hola, Amigos! Thank you for all of your comments in my last entry. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Let me know if you have any questions on anything I didn't cover and I'll definitely respond. Although I am having a great time in Costa Rica, the first week here felt more like two weeks. Not that I was bored or had a lot of free time(just the opposite, actually) but the week seemed to include two or more weeks along with it. I think most of the Spanish Immersion group felt the same way. I couldn't wait to pack my stuff up and ske'daddle for the weekend. San Jose was beginning to make me itch (literally). So, for the weekend, Lydia and I gathered our friends into a group of 6 (Samantha ... read more

Food Poisoning and Rivers Running Brown Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » La Fortuna By TicoTime May 26th 2007 Immaculate Scenery Caño Negro, in all its glory.Recall how we gushed about the best meal we´d had in the Teatro Nacional, in San José? Well we´ve been gushing for days, and paying for it aplenty. The entire time in the Caribbean side and our journey back to La Fortuna was fraught with headaches (of the loco local type and other of the melon kind) and stomach pains and let´s not forget, diarreha. Jenny got the worst of it. That´s because it was in her avocado chicken salad, full of sprouts and broccoli, and I just cleaned up her leftovers. So the first morning we were here (after suffering with it three nights in Cahuita, one more ... read more

Bussed it with the locals to La Fortuna for five hours and what a nightmare....it was like 35 degrees, no aircon, a hundred people packed in to the bus, David´s knees were round his neck, sweat blinding us and the bus broke down about six times....never again....arrived and booked into a really nice hostel with a swimming pool and stayed in a dorm to save a few squids....the bad thing about dorms is that if the toilet doesnt work that well and you were the last to use it when it broke...its pretty embarrassing...the blame lies with you and you have to sort the problem out...everytime you flushed the toilet, in our heads, the Jaws theme tune would come on, as small droplets of sweat form on our brows whilst panicking whether the toilet will work ... read more