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Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela » Arenal July 26th 2006

After taking a few crappy local buses, we decided to try out one of the "turismo" minvans to get to our next destination: the town of La Fortuna, next to Volcano Arenal in the northern part of Costa Rica. It probably would have taken us about 9 hours to get there via local buses - on the turismo minivan, it only took 5. Worth the extra cost, although Trish was still feeling motion sick and needed to lie down when we got here. In the evening we took a quick tour up to the north side of the volcano to watch the lava flow down the side. It was pouring with rain and most of the volcano was hidden in cloud, so I was pretty skeptical whether or not we would see anything much at all. ... read more

Monkeys, sloths, lizards

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Manuel Antonio July 25th 2006

GeoffHardy

After my sunburn from the previous day, I decided I would hide from the big burning ball as much as possible. We headed out and wandered through the national park. I had already been impressed by the amount of wildlife in the town - there were large lizards, everywhere (I had even seen one raiding a dog food bowl). There were gangs of little capuchin monkeys that ran across the trees above and across the ropes strung across the road. In the park there was even more to see, including some critters that I don't know the names of. We got to see the monkeys up close, since they are not shy at all. There were more sloths, lizards, big crabs, etc to see. The beaches in the park were great - more peaceful than the ... read more

last one!

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Alajuela July 25th 2006

krizz

This will most likely be my final update from Costa Rica. I have a couple more AFS activities this week, but am free to do whatever I want the rest of the time. We have a little goodbye on Sunday and then sometime on Monday, we leave our families :( and meet up with the rest of the homestay and language study people. Then we will spend the next 5 days touring the country, going to beaches and hot springs and probably a volcano or two...I don´t really know for sure. This weekend was a lot of fun. Friday we went into school, even though we didn´t have classes, and set up fora comedy show Yuli´s section at school organized as a fundraiser. If you Chapman people thought that Mr. Mayberry´s turkey dance was funny...oh my. ... read more

The Maiden Voyage...

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Quepos July 25th 2006

Kristi L

Hola mis amigos! I´m finally going to tackle the travel blog thing, so let´s hope it works. I know some of you didn´t get the first couple of emails, so I´ll do a super quick summary of what you missed. Also, I´m having trouble uploading my pictures from my camera here, so when I get home I will set up an album on this page and on MSN. Oh, and I sent out a bunch of postcards the other day, but I didn´t realize how ENORMOUS the stamps were going to be, so some of the writing is covered up, haha. So hopefully this entry will clear up any confusion about the covered words. So I made it here without any problems and stayed for a night at Hostel Toruma in San Jose, which was very ... read more

Surf's up

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Manuel Antonio July 24th 2006

GeoffHardy

Trish had been pining for some surfing action so we rented a surf board (for Trish) and a boogie board (for me). We spent the entire day on the beach, and stuck around long after everyone ran to hide from the thunderstorm - the waves are a great place to watch the lightning. Despite layering on litres of sunscreen, I still ended up being a bright pink colour at the end of the day - doh!... read more

Bus ride from hell to the wildlife paradise

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Manuel Antonio July 23rd 2006

GeoffHardy

We dragged ourselves out of bed to catch the 7am bus to Quepos... we weren't the only ones with the same idea and so all of the seats were full and we ended up standing up for the first two hours while the bus crawled through the narrow twisting roads out to the pacific side of Costa Rica. Once we reached Dominical, a few people unloaded and we scored some seats. Which was a good thing, since next three hours were not the most pleasant - the bus was absolutely cooking as it crawled along the dirt road, dodging pot-holes and halting to pick people up every 100 metres or so. At one point it drove through a river where the bridge was being repaired. Finally we reached Quepos and Trish was not feeling too good. ... read more

Parque de Diversiones

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » San José July 22nd 2006

Bus to San José

loveoflife87

Spent all day at a theme park outside of San José. While it didn't compare to Cedar Point, we still had a fun time!... read more

Rafting the Rio Gerviche

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » San José » San Isidro de el General July 22nd 2006

GeoffHardy

The rafting company picked us up at 8am to head out and white-water raft down the Gerviche river. There were two rafts, and one of the guides spoke some english. The river was great fun - mostly class 2 and 3 rapids. I fell out into the river 4 times, only one of which was intentional. After rafting we got dropped off on the Carrera Interamericana (the main highway through central america) and we caught a bus to Paso Canoas on the Costa Rican border. Once we got there, there was a 15 year old who decided to guide us through the process and chat up Trish at the same time. There obviously aren't many NZers coming through the border crossing, as they had to ask around whether or not I was allowed in... From there ... read more

cami´s travel journal...

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica July 20th 2006

here is cami´s travel blog from yesterday. it is really special so i wanted to share it with you all. Back in Costa Rica and its just how I remember it. This morning Katie and I went shopping and bought some picture frames, playdough, a boquet of flowers and a soccer ball. Our first stop was at the comedor where I worked in January with the kids. We grabbed a cab and getting there was like I never left. We arrived at 10:30 just as planned so we could be there to help serve the food to the children at 11:00. Walking up and seeing everybody was better then I even imagined. They all greeted us with hugs and kisses and were so excited that I came back. We gave three mothers, the mothers of the ... read more

Working

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Guanacaste » Liberia July 19th 2006

Devil ray

Martin en Brenda

NU ff wat foto's van onze normale dag indeling. Duiken! Now some shots of our regular days. Diving!... read more

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Costa Rica is a Central American success story: since the late 19th century, only two brief periods of violence have marred its democratic development. Although still a largely agricultural country, it has expanded its economy to include strong techn...more history

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