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We have been in a little town right now called Puerto Viejo for 3 nights, and its really laid back and fun. Everyone here is from Jamaica. Im extremely tempted to get dreads, but Ido and Jen are not letting me!! There are also a lot of kittens in this town...lucky for me. We travelled to Cahuita today with Ido and Ori, another boy who grew up in the States but is now from Israel. Cahuita is a national park along a really nice beach were we walked in the jungle, saw an igauna, a HUGE poisonous spider, an anteater, and got attacked by enormous army ants. It was actually quite terrifying, they cling to your skin and try to crawl up your legs. My feet still hurt from being bitten. But the ocean was sooo ... read more


Hi everyone, it's Liesel here. Your comments and messages have been such fun to read - thank you!! We have definitely lulled into tropical time - the days all blurring into each other, helped along by the soft steady rhythm of the ocean. We spent three weeks in Costa Rica - a beautiful country known for its lush, green vegetation and cloud forests, eco-tourism, volcanoes and beaches. The local greeting "Pura Vida" literally translates as 'Pure Life'. We flew from Sao Paulo via Lima to San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica, on the 19th June. Despite some mild anxiety that the airline we were flying on had crashed a month previously in Honduras, everything went pretty smoothly. We did have a bit of a bag drama as we found out that my backpack had ... read more
Best Iced Cuppacinos
Banana Azul
Mango Daquiri


Today we met up with our friend Neala to go to Playa Cocles. It is a town south of Puerto Viejo where there is a couple who run a wild animal rescue. They are originally biologists that worked at zoos but felt like working with the animals in the wild. So they came here. Anyway, they had a baby howler monkey, a baby opossum, a baby margay, a 2 year-old sloth, a Jesus Christ lizard, various snakes, and we got to see a red-eyed frog. It was the best $7 I ever spent. We spent a couple of hours there. Neala was not feeling well so we made our way back to Puerto Viejo and Macayla and I went to the beach to swim for about and hour before it began to rain. The days our ... read more
animal reserve
Costa Rica
Costa Rica


Monday evening we went to a little restaurant in Puerto Viejo and had the best food we have had since being in Cost Rica. We walked back to our cabinas Puerto Viejo just raving about it. We were staying at the most rustic cabinas ever. Lots of partying and drugs, I knew that we would not stay more than just that one night. Anyway, soon after we were settled in our room, started feeling really bad. I took some tums and fell asleep but was up many times very ill. Macayla started feeling sick too and I decided to go to a nicer place since we would be staying there all day, Cabinas Casa Verde. Yesterday was a wash. Ill all day in bed. This morning we did feel better but still very queasy and weak. ... read more


Decisions! Decisions! Where are we going to spend our last two weeks in Central America? Somewhere we´ve already visited or a new location? Why not head back to Costa Rica then make up our minds. A mere 11 hours on a coach from Leon to San Jose, can´t believe these journeys are starting to feel like a short hop. After needless fuss and bother at the border crossing we entered Costa Rica, it feels like we made a big mistake, it poured bucketloads all the way to the capital, yet in Nicaragua we hardly saw a raindrop!! Too late now!! Have to make the most of it, besides it might eventually stop raining. San Jose is always wet, they should twin the city with Glasgow!! We ignored the gloomy weather forecast and booked bus tickets ... read more
Punta Uva Beach
Cahuita National Park
Poison Dart Frog


Hi all! It has been 2 days since I've written because yo estoy muy ocupado (I have been very busy)! So, let me try and catch you up!! On Saturday I had an amazing day! I went to the Biological Garden in Puerto Viejo which was a nice sized tropical fruit garden. They had all the tropical fruits I knew and some I had never heard of. I walked about 15 minutes north on the main road north out of town and then another 5 minutes off the main drag to the garden. As I arrived a bus of tourists were loading up and leaving. So that put me as the only patron at the garden, which was a real luxury. The tour was self-guided and the brochures were really informative. I ended up wandering through ... read more
Pepper Plant
Frogs and Blogs
Shampoo Ginger


On Wednesday at noon I boarded the bus at the Caribbean Terminal bound for Limon, Cahita, Puerto Viejo and Manzanillo: all coastal cities, towns and villages on the east side of Costa Rica. I had planned to head to Puerto Viejo and make my way south to Manzanillo and north to Cahita. On the bus I sat next to a young Tica (a Costa Rica woman) who was in San Jose only for the day to see her surgeon for a follow-up visit. She had fractured her ankle in a motorcycle accident. (This is a common occurrence - I always see many mentioned in the paper and on TV.) An employee from the hospital service had driven her at 3 am from her home in one of the southernmost towns to San Jose and when I ... read more
Common Area Pura Vida
Upstairs at Pura Vida
Mosquito Nets


Day 202: Onward down the coast I had a leisurely start this morning, visiting the local cafe for another rather filling breakfast, beginning with a big bowl of fruit and a glass of pineapple juice, with a second course of gallo pinto, a traditional brekkie consisting of a mound of rice, beans, scrambled eggs and toast. It was then a short waddle back to my hostel to pack up my things and take them down to the bus station. From Cahuita, I travelled an hour down the coast to Puerto Viejo, a rather touristy, but still quite laid back and pretty town on the Caribbean coast. I found a cheapish place to stay owned by a Swiss lady and her daughter, and spent the afternoon, exploring the town (which didn't take too long) and drinking cold ... read more
Pretty plants and flowers 1
Pretty plants and flowers 2
Pretty plants and flowers 3


I arrived in Puerto Viejo after staying just one night in San Jose. To be honest I didn't see much of the capital as I was tired from our last night of partying in Havana and so just wanted to catch up on sleep. My hostel was quite strange and they put me in a dorm room with 3 men over 40. One of which would laugh out loud in his sleep and scare the s**t out of me and the others were quite amusing conversation... I'm pretty sure they were alcoholics and not really the sharpest tools in the toolbox. During one conversation they assured me that Uruguay was in fact an island off Brazil and when I protested otherwise they got rather annoyed and assured me that, as Americans, they knew about that kind ... read more
Playa Blanca
Cahuita National Park
Pretty butterfly


After 10 weeks of alternating between hosting company, recovering, and taking care of life’s chores Team Family settled right into the home school, work, and “normal” life with great anticipation. It only took three days to have the unanimous feeling that we should be doing something else. We came to Costa Rica with the goal to explore, discover, and understand this beautiful and interesting country. After six months we feel like we have achieved our goals. We feel that all of us have achieved a great deal of personal growth and we are ready for our next challenge in life. My days shadowing Johnny were short lived as we both had other agendas that split us apart. I wanted to get the rear bumper of the car fixed and Johnny is trying to organize his business ... read more
Homeschool fun
Benjamin and Mom chillin
Smooth driving through the national park




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