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Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Tamarindo April 4th 2006

So since the last blog our adventures have taken us to San Juan Del Sur via a bus, taxi, ferry, bus, overnight stay, bus, border crossing and taxi to Nicaragua where as I think I have previously mentioned we intended to brush up quick smart on our spanish - so after a week and four lessons with our teacher we left Nicaragua a little better off or so we though only to be told dont worry the spanish is different in South America anyway!! Shite!!! Hehe it was an experience to say the least - out tutor was lovely and we had some good laughs! However after a week we were definately scratching to leave as for Mike the surf was rather ave and as you will read in on one of the photos options we ... read more

Costa Rica February 2004

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara February 13th 2006

Beach Costa Rica

Gump

This was a family vacation to Costa Rica. We swam, tried to surf, zip lined, went horseback riding and had great relaxing time. Family time like this hadn´t happened during the last ten years due to life! Aaron flew in from New York and Mary, Marc and I from Portland. I still remember Mary's face when she stepped off the zip line platform for the first time, fear followed by pure exhiliration. We also recieved a scare after telling locals how we waded into a creek and thier amazement that we had not seen alligators! We stayed up till 3 in the morning hoping to see the giant turtles come out of the ocean to lay eggs. The next morning Marc showed us their tracks in the sand. We probably missed them by a short time. ... read more

Liberia

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Liberia February 3rd 2006

AmberH

Hola amigos, Gisteren ben ik in Costa Rica aangekomen. De grens over ging verbazingwekkend snel. Liberia zelf is en koloniaal stadje, wel aardig, maar mijns inziens niet te vergelijken met Antigua of Granada. Vandaag naar een vulkanisch park in de buurt geweest: de natuur hier is geweldig: van watervallen tot borrelende modderpoelen, stoom die opstijgt uit gaten en de geur van zwavel, diversiteit aan bomen en planten, uiteraard veel vogels (en insecten), geluid van apen (en in de verte een gezien) giftige slangen (toch wel blij dat ik niet op mijn sandalen loop) en de blijkbaar zeldzame koningsgier. ... read more

Samara - Sun Good, Stomach, Bad

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Samara February 1st 2006

Gregg and Elise

Since you've last heard from us we've traveled to the other side of Costa Rica, changed hotels three times (all in one day) and sent the Brown-O-Meter well on its way. We are in Samara and after having a few down days are back on our feet and raring to go. Well, maybe we're medium-raring to go, but getting there. The rains of Cahuita, and possibly something else, twisted my stomach into some pretty intense knots that are still trying to untwist themselves.... on the bright side I've got my appetite back. AND, as an added bonus, now that the abdominal pains have ceded I've welcomed a new sympton... let's just say a different Brown-O-Meter might be introduced. Enough about that, I don't want to go "blue" with the blog. Back to Samara: Samara We arrived ... read more

Costa Rica

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste January 4th 2006

THE GANG

GaryBee

NOTE: This is a review I posted on a travel forum before starting this blog. We visited Costa Rica over the Christmas period in 2005. Occidental Grand Papagayo Resort, Papagayo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. We have just returned from a glorious 14 nights at the Occidental Grand Papagayo. The dynamic of our party was quite varied- 3 families comprising of 6 parents (in our 40’s), one child of 10, 3 teens of 16 and five 17-19 year-olds. 15 of us in all. We are from the UK and go away together in a group every Christmas. Traditionally, we choose the Caribbean (all-inclusive resorts) but this year we decided to be a little more adventurous - so glad we did! As there is no direct flight to Liberia from the UK, we flew via Miami, which meant a ... read more

New Years - San Jose

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Liberia January 2nd 2006

Ode to Frank

lush

Ok so first of all my apologies for not getting this up sooner! Especially you Adam who left a message on the blog totally outraged! Also, this is my last post involving Frank and Mike so I have to do my ode to them as well (well some good pictures anyways). We had a great New Years Eve, Frank showed up filthy as a rat (sorry but you looked rough buddy) on Dec 30th, and like the rest of us, wandered out of nowhere up to Dev, Michelle, Dani & Jords casa (it was the only place we had accurate directions to) and moments later, just as expected he was in the pool with his speedo. That night we took it pretty easy, saving ourselves for the big New Years Even night. Can´t remember what we ... read more

Playas Del Coco, Costa Rica and Christmas

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Liberia December 28th 2005

Beach gang

lush

Well folks I'm trying to do a big blog update today! My apologies for not getting something out more Christmas related, closer to Christmas! First of all, I'm excited to anounce that I have a camera again! So from Costa Rica onward I will have photo's for everyone! Once Frank shows up here for New Years with all the photo's from the mosquito coast and the corn islands I will go back and add lots of those for you to see. Ryan and John and I arrived here on December 23rd, met Jordan, Devon, Michelle and Danielle. We had a big Christmas eve with lots of sharads (literally) in which Ryan expected us to somehow act out Tomato aspec. Apprently it's Christmas related. Big tradition. Was pretty funny acting out christmas related items, traditions etc. Especially ... read more

Day 6

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Tamarindo December 22nd 2005

Robert

Hello Again, Everything in Tamarindo is great as always. I don't think I can say enough about how much we both love this area. Yesterday finished up great. We were able to get most of our shopping done and grabbed a few more potstickers and lettuce wraps for lunch. Later I decided to put my expertise at work and cooked dinner. (Hope this makes you Jealous Scott) The manager of the hotel pointed us into the direction to find some fresh seafood. After a short walk through the jungle we came across Pedro's, a local hangout mostly for fishermen. One of their employees/boat captains happened to be english and tracked down a kilo(2.2#) of fresh shrimp and 2 fresh lobsters, all for about $15. Next we went to the market to get some produce and I ... read more

Costa Rica - Tamarindo

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Tamarindo December 21st 2005

Playa Tamarindo

Tor W

I arrived in Tamarindo on Friday 16th December. I was not sure whether I'd just stay here for a day or two and then head over to the Caribbean coast, but I've ended up staying here for 5 nights and not made it over to the Caribbean side ... it was just going to be too much travelling in the few days I have left here. I've been staying in a hostel called La Botella De Leche (the bottle of milk!) ...which is a nice place ... friendly owners and people in the hostel, and the outside of it is painted like a fresian cow! Tamarindo itself is quite a pleasant little town ... it's smaller and more upmarket than Jaco, but a bit touristy. The town is set on a long bay beach and has ... read more

Day 4 & 5

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Tamarindo December 20th 2005

Robert

Hello everyone, Yesterday was very relaxing. Feeling a little under the weather, we both slept late and rolled into breakfast around 1030. Most of the day was spent laying out around the pool and beach. On our way back to the room we couldn't help but stop at the taco stop for lunch. After being in a food coma for a couple of hours we walked to langosta, the south side of the bay. We grabbed a couple of fresh fruit daquires at Capitain Suizo and walked up the beach to tamarindo watching the gourgous sunset radiate the most stunning oranges and reds. We then ventured to the dragonfly, a newer and populor restaurant. We had Pasta with shrimp and chipotle cream sauce and a thai style fish cake with cilantro oil, both were great. The ... read more

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