Blogs from Hotel Capital, San José, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean

Today we fly home. We had the most increadible trip here. Our Tour Director Shirley was great, she was extreamly knowledgable, fun, spoke good english, and put up with me. Having never been on a tour before it would be had to judge, however among our 42 other members of our group (including many new friends) were quite a few world travelers. They told us that our group was an unusually good mix of people. we had some young college students and some retired professionals, a few of us working stiffs, and a few families. Everyone got along great and each and everyone contributed to the group to make it better. My personal thanks to each of you for your contribution to our fantastic trip. We are sorry to be leaving this beautiful country, however we ... read more

We made the trip up the mountain with our caravan tour group to see poas volcano. unfortunatilly for us the cloud forest which surrounds the volcano also prevented us from seeing the caldera. However we had a great time. Christy especially enjoyed seeing all of the plants. She keeps pointing out all of the HOUSE PLANT that are growing everwhere here. This was our first excursion with our tour group. it was one and a half ours bus ride each way to the volcano. most of is going slowly up a small raod into the mountains. Thw small communitys we drove through were much different from what we saw in San Jose yeaterday. Yeasterday Jan 2, Christy and I took a cab to downtown and visited the gold museum and walked through the central avenue shopping ... read more