Blogs from Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 4

J'ai fabriqué un jouet spécial avec une fleur pour faire plaisir à Céleste et à ma sœur. Ici il y en a dans la forêt et au Québec il peut en avoir dans les bouquets de fleurs. On enlève l'intérieur de la fleur et après on la met sur notre nez! Et voilà un nez de perroquet! Ici les enfants inventent toutes sortes de façons de s'amuser avec la nature! Si vous essayez ça... J'aimerais voir votre photo!... read more

Monteverde is on the Pacific side of the Costa Rican continental divide; being close to the divide means constant howling trade winds coming in from the east. If moisture builds up on the Caribbean side, it eventually gets pushed up and rolls over the divide and engulfs Monteverde in fast moving cloud and mist – like today. If it’s mostly dry on the Caribbean side the skies will clear, and from Cabinas Vista Al Golfo the place where I’m staying, you can see clear down to the coast some 50km away. Yesterday, 3 of us ‘young’uns’ from Vista Al Golfo, hiked up vertically to Cerro Amigos the highest peak in the area (1842m), accompanied by various friendly dogs and coincidentally Marcus, the guy who runs all the TV/telecom broadcasting paraphernalia at the summit. Marcus was kind ... read more

R: Next stop is Costa Rica - a small rainforest filled nation sandwiched between Panama and Nicaragua. Our flight took us via El Salvador - and to fans of the band Athlete, yes I was humming the song all the way there. We had an initial night in San Jose which was pretty much completely taken up with standing in the immigration line and sitting in a traffic jam into the city. The next morning we headed out on the early bus to La Fortuna, a tiny town in the shadow of the Arenal volcano. The bus took about 4 hours and along the way we mused about whether it was good or bad for a public bus to be this full of tourists when many of the locals couldn't get a seat. We actually had ... read more

After our final breakfast with Susanna, our Ometepe mama, at 5:15am we headed to the ferry and onward tot he border. We literally walked from Nicaragua to Costa Rica and what a difference a border line makes! This place is much more developed and has lush green mountains everywhere. It was also refreshing to have our first bit of rain in Central America and it's actually chilly enough for a jacket! We arrived at our hotel around 3 and booked a nightwalk in one of the rain forests. Kitted out from head to toe, torch in hand, we ventured into the unknown in the dark. Although we did not see a sloth or a viper we did see a honey bear, am owl, a wolf spider, a possum, fireflies, glow in the dark fungi and a ... read more

This my first entry in my blog and thought it would be a good place to start. We went to Costa Rica last month and one of the things I wanted to accomplish was to zip line. I think Costa Rica is a good place to start if you have never zip lined. We chose, or I should say I chose ,because husband wasn't wild about doing it, Monteverde in the rain forest. All the different locals have zip lining to chose from, but after some research, we chose Sky Trek. We had a family of 4 from Halifaxs and 2 young ladies from Minnesota in our group. We had 2 extremely nice guides that were very reassuring and that made the experience more "comfortable". I'm not sure husband would agree, because he has a problem ... read more