Blogs from Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 10

On our way to Lapa Rios a National Geographic Eco Reserve at the end of nowhere ..we realised it would take us 7 hours to get to the next destination. We decided to break up the trip into two sections - using our resting place as Manuel Antonio a popular beach resort half way down the coast. I forgot to mention that Costa Rica is in the rainy season so we drove more than 4 hours in torrential rains that were refreshing but definitely slowed us a down especially since the highway is in reality a two way road with no shoulders and a lot of small and large moving trucks. As we entered the intersection towards Manuel Antonio I was so proud of Jeff as he and the Gps help me drive and manoeuvre our ... read more

Hey there! The last weeks where pretty quiet at the University so I had a lot of time to visit a few new places. The first weekend I joined friends from the exchange group to go to Monteverde. In Monteverde is a really famous and incredible beautiful cloud forest, which exists because trade winds from the Atlantic condense at the mountains and create a humid, always foggy environment. Therefore, there grow epiphytes, small plants which grow on the trunks of the big trees. We went to the Santa Elena Reserve, less people and muddy tracks. We've hardly seen any animals because they know how to hide, but the nature - wow! Then we climbed the Ficus trees, which are hollow inside. I don't know how high we were, but we had a really good view up ... read more

Update of my life in Costa Rica, at the moment mainly in San José. One day we've been in the Center, at a free Transarte Festival, with a lot of amazing music all over the city. The coming week we made salami and ham in the laboratory. It is so interesting, that we actually see how things are made. The ham here is a little different, it reminds me more of a sausage with big pieces of meat with starch or proteins. Usually it isnot made of one piece like in Germany. In class we talked about food trends – and the prof brought a lot of things to try. The homework was about going to the market or supermarket and find out what kind of innovating products we could find. University is much more practical ... read more

Photos of Manuel Antonio National Park...... read more

The last two days were loaded. I was dog tired and slept like a log when the wakeup call buzzed in the morning. I suddenly woke up with the ring, but I couldn’t figure out where I am. Then Dipankar yawned from the other bed. Damn it! It’s time to get ready; another loaded day. Salvatura Park It started as a cloudy day. We finished our breakfast while sitting inside the restaurant and waiting for the shuttle. The shuttle picked us up from the hotel at 8:30 am and headed towards the Salvatura Park. The park entrance is quite elaborate. Unlike the Sky Trek, Salvatura Park has other attractions apart from zip lining. We planned to do some tree top walking through the rain forest after zip lining, and of course, the famous butterfly garden is ... read more