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Cahuita Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cahuita, Costa Rica
My life as a social butterfly
This is a top pick! ... would have dance with him the whole night. But what followed instead was one of hte most embarrassing ten minutes of my life in Costa Rica. I knew I was in trouble after the first quick turn. The eyes of the grannies gew wider and wider as the turns ...
Preparing for the Future
This is a top pick! As a fun ending for my unit on jobs and places, I decided to have a career day for my students. When I told them that they would need to come to school dressed as what they wanted to be when they grew up, yes anything they wanted, they screamed with ...
Andrew´s birthday, and Monkey Attack
This is a top pick! ... which was super spicy and tasty--note to CHAD: we DID have spicy food before we got to Mexico. The Carribean side of Costa Rica has a huge Jamaican influence. We will probably leave tomorrow to head south to Manzanilla and to see Tom Shaver in ...
When it rains, it pours...everyday
This is a top pick! The rainy season has struck with a vengeance, and I have added some interesting new words to my vocabulary. Aguacero: literally, 'mountains of water', but basically 'it's raining so hard that you can't hear yourself think or see two feet in front of ...
Chilling to the Reggae vibe.....
This is a top pick! ... took the short bus ride south, where we stood in queues for what seemed like hours at the Penas Blancas border crossing. Stamped into Costa Rica our bus passed the most beautiful scenery on it's way to San Jose (that song was in my head the entire ...
Finally some monkeys
This is a top pick! Cahuita was smaller and less fun than Puerto Viejo, but the National Park was a highlight. Since the park was so accessible and crowded we kept expectations low on seeing wildlife, but as soon as we saw the monkey droppings...we knew ...
Cheeky monkeys
... a quick walk to the entrance of Cahuita National Park, a park that boasts birds, lizards, snakes, sloths, monkey encounters and Costa Rica's best snorkelling. Unfortunately, as a guide was required to snorkel, we could not confirm this. Instead we ...
Cahuita National Park
Cahuita National Park - We took the short trip over into Costa Rica and continued up the Caribbean Coast to Cahuita National Park, where we would spend Christmas. We stayed for a few days in the small town of Cahuita, and spent most of the time on ...
Long and Crazy Trip
What a crazy trip it's been! I arrived in Costa Rica on Wednesday night exhausted. I'd been traveling the better part of the day from Rofo to Philly, then taking the train to Newark, then the plane to San Jose. When I got through immigration ...
Day 3 Cahuita
... nbsp; We got on the bus after paying 60 colones, or about 12 cents, to use the bathroom. We rode 4 hours to Cahuita on the Carribean coast. We drove through the mountains. On the way down the mountain we could feel the ...
Cahuita
... the first 2 days of my trip in Cahuita, a laid-back town at the Carribean Coast with Jamaican roots. A small national park (Cahuita National Park)is located very close to the town. Here you can see black howler monkeys, White-faced Capuchin monkeys, the ...
Caribbean Cahuita
... as well leading to a much to early sunset and sunrise. Checked into a `cabin` or really just a twin room and bexame aware Costa Rica was quite expensive. Food was not cheap, neither was accomodation and excursion started at a minimum of US$40 up to $100 ...
Bird is the word and rain is the bane!
... from town. The southern beaches, the forest behind them, and the coral reef offshore (one of just a handful in Costa Rica) are all part of Cahuita National Park. And the area is full of wild life..we can´t even count the number of different types ...
Escaping the big city for a Caribbean beach
... walk through the national park looking for the animals that allegedly live in it. As with every other national park in Costa Rica I didn't see a single animal. They must have all headed south or started hibernating early. I have come to ...
The 60 day Seventeen
... Laguna de Apoyo 10. Number of bottles of hot sauce acquired: 11 and counting! 11. Favourite little known city: Las Juntas, Costa Rica 12. Best cigar thus far: Sultan robusto with maduro wrapper 13. Number of bottles of Flor de Cana rum consumed ...
Los Osos Perezosos
... she made us her specialty cocktails. She used to be a bartender in D.C., so we chatted about the business, cultural differences between Costa Rica and the States, and the curious lack of tampons in this country. ("Women's rights," she chalked it up to, ...
Cahuita Caribbean drinking
Instead of heading straight to Panama City and chilling, I decided to head with the gang to the Caribbean coast, looking for my faith in the Caribbean weather to be restored after the time spent on Utila...if bad, theres always a bar hey! Well thankfully ...
the dates are all wrong for these...
... . We only spent one full day here in the national park. Very pretty...we saw a bunch of sloths and howler monkeys. that's about it for Cahuita, nothing too exciting. OH we also saw a bootlegged version of the sex and the city movie...I was so ...
Bananaland
... bezahlen. Es ist ja nicht so, dass ich Toast besonders gerne esse, aber Frühstücken tue ich gerne. Unsere Aufenthaltszeit in Costa Rica wird wohl eher kurz ausfallen. Das Costa Rica tatsächlich viel Natur und Wildlife zu bieten hat, durften wir gleich ...
Otra vez!
... with his help. There was one girl who came out on the boat but didn't go in the water; she's a Costa Rica native who had never been to Cahuita, lives in Vienna now and speaks five languages. I'm always envious of people who have the guts and worldliness ...
Reggaetime!
... black population and as a result is very relaxed place with a cool reggae vibe. I had been recommended the place as a relatively (for Costa Rica) cheaper place to chill out for a bit. The bus ride from San Jose was quite good although the bus had no air ...
Cahuita / Puerto Viejo. Caribbean Coast. Maan.
... to rip tides to we didnt go in much. After some Caribean cuisine and plenty of cocktails we headed to bed. We liked Cahuita, small town feel, where locals had a commnity centre, people rode bikes through the town, and kids played table football and ...
Cahuita
Hola from Cahuita I am currently in Cahuita, Costa Rica, I spent 2 days in Quepos and in Manuel Antonio. I hiked all through Manuel National Park and saw lots of iguanas, 2 sloths thousands of hermits crabs and very beatuiful beaches and forest. I ...
Sandras Geburtstag in der Faultier-Rettungsstation
... Anlass etwas besonders Schoenes im Internet gefunden: www.slothrescue.org. Das ist eine Faultier-Rettungsstation an der Atlantikkueste von Costa Rica, also dort wo wir sowieso gerade hin wollten. Wir geben auf halbem Weg das Auto wieder beim Vermieter ab ...
Bummin' on the beach
... a fun run to HiperMas with Jennifer and Antony to get my mattress, which they weren't able to deliver because there are no addresses in Costa Rica, I live on a road that's too hard for a truck to get through, and I didn't have a phone for them to call me ...
Cahuita, a place where some westerners got strande
... to a "nat.park", if you want to call it that. The park offers mainly beaches, so better call it beach reserve. Cahuita is a little layed back village, but of corse, touristy. Main attractions: beaches , tours to tortuego, smoking .., Quite many ...
Cahuita and the Costa Rica football match
Cahiuta is a very relaxed caribbean village with black, coral and white beahes. This was the last stop on the tour before the return to San Jose. I decided to signed off the tour a few days early as I didn´t really fancy heading back into ...
EN scary moments !!!
We were on a boat at 6AM with hopes to get as far as Costa Rica's town Cahuita but thanks to the long wait at the crossing border we missed the last bus at 4PM and had to stay in Porte Lion instead. When looking into our guide book for tips for ...