First Leg of Four-Day Trip to San Isidro de General, Manuel Antonio & Quepos


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Published: February 5th 2011
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Back from my first trip to discover more about Costa Rica! Barb & I had a nice trip. We saw and did most of what we wanted to. To start us out on this four-day adventure we left Atenas on Wednesday February 2 in the morning by public bus, no chickens present, to head to San Jose. The route included going through Alajuela, where one of the two international airports is in CR, and the one I came in... Read Full Entry



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6th February 2011
no suicide shower here!

suicide shower
hehe whats a suicide shower? freezing cold water? Id want to shoot myself too :)
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Un Pueblo En Route to San Isidro

Very nice-pretty much what I would expect to find in Central America.
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En Route to San Isidro

Looks like a pretty nice bus and no chickens!
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Cafe Near Hotel Where We Ate Several Times

Very nice! Good food?
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Inside Hotel Diamante Real

Oh, very, very nice! Was it as nice as it looks in this photo?
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Staircase in Hotel up to out room

Wow! Impressive!
6th February 2011
no suicide shower here!

Oh, very nice indeed. And a tub!
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Taxi Drive Tour with Eladio of Pueblitos near San Isidro

Sounds like Eladio was a real gem.
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Machine to Process Sugar Cane into Granulated Sugar

Dad would love this photo!
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Taxi Drive Tour with Eladio of Pueblitos near San Isidro

Looks like a nice house...
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Large Creek/Small River with Swimming Hole

Beautiful!
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Country-side on Taxi Tour

Interesting landscaping....
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Flowers Seen on Taxi Tour

That purple flower looks like weigela.
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Coffee Beans Being Loaded on Truck to Ship to Processing Location

Neat!
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Typical Tico Cementary

Like the graves down in Louisanna...
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oh...didn't know that...
is that from their French or Cajun influence?
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indeed! you never know what you might ...
see...our timing was right when Eladio drove us by this place..
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oh really...
haven't heard of that one although if it grows here it doesn't grow in Central Oregon...at least not very well. Of course I've seen some familiar tropical plants growing outdoors here that we can only grow indoors such as ficus and scheffolera. Oh yes and palms.
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i'm assuming they're
young plants still
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si.....que
bonito es
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yea kind of a
chalet style
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yes he would...would you please
forward it on to him?
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he was very nice and had his heart in
his work as a taxi driver/tour guide
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i did take a bath
but I'm getting by fine with just showers here since it's not cold...as long as the water is at least warm!
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i thought so too
i forgot to take a photo of the front of the place but i t=don't think it's as impressive as this staircase
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pretty much with some oddities
there were no washcloths or facial tissues. it cost be $30 a night splitting it with Barb. we had two very comfortable queen beds
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the food was good...
not outstanding but good and it was conveniently close
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yes this bus was quite nice and not
too crowded...stay tuned to my next blog entry of our bus trip to Quepos
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yep
i have to write something in this section but nothing to really say;)
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a sucide shower is when...
there are exposed wires to the shower head....we had that in our hotel in Quepos and I had it in the guest house I stayed in San Pedro/San Jose also in Guatemala both times...it's very very common but makes us gringos a bit nervous

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