Blogs from Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 12

This cloudy forest is the proud of costaricans. Amazing landscapes, wild life , fauna, flora, wonderfull sunsets,skywalks,romantic places,exotic rivers, canopy.... like the heaven.. this is the meaning of monteverde, the paradise of million people likes to watch exotic birds, quiet walks on natural trails full of vegetation and weird animals better known as part of the costa rica's seven wonders and has been callen by national geographic the jewel in the crown of cloud forest reserves. The bulk of Monteverde's rain forest and cloud forest can be found in the Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde, a private nature reserve created in 1972 by scientist George Powell and Quaker Wilford Guindon. The area around the park entrance is the most visited, though camping deep in the reserve is possible with reservations. Nine main trails, which total 13 ... read more

We left the arenal and our luxurious hotel yesterday morning and travelled for 4 and a half hours on un made up roads into the monteverde mountains to our basic university accommodation located in a cloud forest. The road was so bad that half of us had to shift to the opposite side of the bus to counterbalance it whilst manoevreing around a pothole....so big it could have tipped us over! After dinner, a lucky few managed to see an opossum and an olenka which were feeding on the ripe bananas. The night walk was cancelled due to the heavy rain and so a table tennis tournament ensued. Ollie triumphed in the singles tournament and Callum and Miss Slade won the doubles very convincingly!! This morning we went on a trek through the forest with an ... read more

More from our Laz Paz Waterfall Garden extravaganza.... (No time to write, must go explore....I´ll let the pictures speak for themselves...)... read more

Nos despertamos temprano esta mañana, to get ready for our plans that we made the night before in between our horrible salsa and wandering of this town. On the floor of out dorm room clothes were strewn every where. I guess we stumbled in after the bar and just cleared our beds and crashed...so we picked up opened the window to disperse the strong aroma of 3 dudes that havent showered in three days, which I finally got a hot one in today, and headed to the front of the hostel. I grabbed a cup of coffee and went outside to the burrito vender and got me a breakfast burrito, which ·I regretted the rest of the day....damn gas from beans. Our shuttle picked us up at around 9 and we headed to the sante elana ... read more

Throughout most of the night, heavy rain had been falling but by morning it had given way to dreary yet very drizzly skies. After a final awesome breakfast at the resort dining room, we were picked up for our transportation to Monteverde. Our transportation consisted of a boat ride across Lake Arenal and then in vans through the unpaved dirt roads up to Monteverde. We were picked up in front of the resort lobby and along with 4 other people, we drove about 15 minutes to the dock. Immediately, the whole thing looked very sketchy. Along the water's edge was this very rickety looking boat that was already almost filled to capacity. We were all wondering if this thing was safe and were all having second thoughts. We had to carry our luggage down this steep ... read more