Orosi, Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Maybe just a drop in the bucket...but a big drop
Feb 5, 2007 (81 photos)

... mindbogglingly strange to me that in an hour I won't be surrounded by these friends that have been so integral in my Costa Rican experience. I leave Orosi in an hour.  And I'm scared.  This place, so foreign at first, a place where I got lost ...

Stuck in Time
Jun 6, 2007

... ; But now I understand.  It was a great month, an easy month, but not how I will remember my time in Costa Rica.  Orosi is a vacation, a great vacation but not real life.  Good times are always had here...even while simply crossing the ...

Pura Vida...eventually
Jan 19, 2007 (9 photos)

... me totally self conscious of all the stuff I had brought with me, and head towards my new home.  Hola...es bonita...Orosi...Como estas...I mean esta...I mean...how are you?  My bag...heavy...sor...lo siento...me gusta musica...mi espanol es muy ...

Orosi
Feb 2, 2008

Dall'ultima volta che ho scritto di chilometri in macchina ne abbiamo fatti tanti, scendendo lungo la costa al pacifico e arrivando fino alla Penisola Osa. Li siamo rimasti per qualche notte in un bungalow in mezzo alla giungla dove abbiamo fatto qualche ...

White Water Rafting the Pacuare
Apr 25, 2005 (5 photos)

... and actually staying in the same place for 4 nights. Previous to that we moved continuously for 10 days on the trot. Orosi is a pleasant town, near a huge mountain range that divides the country and extends into Panama. Many rivers flow from the range to ...

Orosi Valley
Jan 4, 2007

My last stop before leaving was the Orosi valley, a lush green valley in the central highlands of Costa Rica.  Our plan was to once we got settled was to hit the hot springs in town that we had read about.  After talking to some people ...

på overlevelsestur i junglen
Jul 12, 2009 (25 photos)

Så overlevede jeg sgu også fire dage i junglen... Det var utrolig spændende og flot, men bestemt også en prøvelse med underlige dyr over alt, en ulidelig varme og så myg som bare var vilde med mig. Mike som havde det sted vi boede på var pisse fin. Det var ...

Hitting the hot spring
Jan 5, 2007

... springs. At the hotel (Montana Linda) we met Elizabeth and Garrett, two young adventurous Canadians who have driven from Alberta to Costa Rica in a 1990 Volvo. Their trunk was packed full of paper towels and an amusing number of shoes, but they were ...

Chocolate Mousse!
Jun 17, 2005

... Groningen we sometimes have a Day of The Toetjes (Day of the Desserts) and that one of the things we made was Chocolatemousse. Well...Costa Rica people like sweet things...and since I could find all the ingredients to make it, I decided to make it! I must ...

Interesting day
Jun 20, 2005

... a party and everyone was invited. They are renting a house on the slope of a nearby mountain...the have a really magnificient view on Orosi...and it was night so you could see all the lights of the village Orosi below. Apart from the really nice view, the ...

Orosi #2
Jun 7, 2005

... Rica colone is worth. 3000 colones is about 5 euro 17...which is not much :P I also discovered that there is a bank is Costa Rica now! Which is pretty nice because I did not count on that. My Postbank Cirrus/Maesto card works, which is really neat because ...

Orosi and Carthago
Jun 19, 2005

... walked a bit through the city...went to see the park where, which is really a big coincidence, I met Charlotte again (who left Orosi 5 days ago to go to do some volunteerwork at La Flor de Feliz). After talking a bit and saying goodbye I went with Rosa to ...

Orosi #4
Jun 11, 2005

... ....will post an update about it when I know what my schedule will look like exactly. For now I´m staying 3 more weeks in Orosi anyway. I´m not sure if I mentioned before...but the people here like beans and rice...if they mix those you end up getting a ...

Arrived at Orosi, Costa Rica!!
Jun 6, 2005

Hola amigos! Yesterday I arrived in Costa Rica and travelled to Orosi, the village where I'll be studying spanish! Cailet dropped me off at the airport and we had to say goodbye :( I had a lot of fun staying there, so a big thanks to you Cailet ;) The ...

Orosi #3
Jun 9, 2005

... I went to a bar with some friends to watch the Costa Rica vs Guatemala football game. Costa Rica won with 3-2. All the Costa Rica people were pretty happy about that! This morning I visited the Parque National Tapanti. We met at 5:45 am and took a 4- ...

High Mountain Walk
Jun 22, 2005

Yesterday I went on a high mountainwalk with 2 friends (Rusell and his sister who is called Jen I think....forgive me if I remembered the wrong name if you read this Jen). Anyhow...we had a really fun walk...it was a walk, as you might have guessed, high ...

Volcan Irazu!!
Jun 26, 2005

... probably play pool with some friends. Yesterday we played pool as well...and The Netherlands beat all the other countries (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Swiss, USA)...though that also has to do with the fact that there were 3 Dutch people playing....and less of ...

Tapenti #2
Jun 25, 2005

Yesterday I went to the National Park Tapenti again with Jody, Neil and Jen. We had a lot of fun walking there. This time we did one trail I did not do before...and we saw quite a lot of animals. It´s too bad this computer refuses to get my camera ...

Mountain Hike
Jun 16, 2005

... circling above us waiting for us to die. We had to disappoint them ;) Returned back at Orosi at 11:30. And oh...as breakfast I had sandwiches with purified beans. It's a real Costa Rican thing to eat I guess...it tasted ok. Anyhow...hasta luego.

Running from the Sun
Feb 23, 2007

... long enough now to expect a bus trip to be twice as long as expected we arrived, somewhat deshelvled, in the tiny mountain town of Orosi. It was about as far a depart from the touristy beach town of Jaco as we could get, which was ideal for both of us. ...

Hiking, biking, coffee and many more things...
May 26, 2009 (17 photos)

... visiting beaches, lakes and rivers we thought time has come to say hello to the lush green central valley of Costa Rica. Fate guided me to the Valley of Orosi. After a horrible long busride to San José, a crazy taxi drive through an insane rain shower and ...

Orosi og Vulcan Irazu
Dec 14, 2008 (10 photos)

... i magen, dro vi fra Heredia og inn til San Jose for aa plukke opp Amelle. Sammen dro vi tre soerover til den lille landsbyen Orosi. Det eneste vi visst var at vi ville bort fra San Jose igjen, og vi endte opp med Orosi. Orosi ligger i en frodig dal med ...

Orosi
Jun 4, 2006

... was deceiving from the bottom...but it was unbelievable!! Tonight I have a big evening including mass at the oldest church in Costa Rica (in Orosi) with my family, followed by karaoke at another host family´s house. I will try to upload some pictures as ...

A BRAND NEW PUERTO LIMON PORT COMING SOON?
Jul 14, 2009

... ;  Today, Puerto Limon port really needs a relooking as it is old and not competitive compared to its potential. Costa Rica has not enough resources for this kind of renovation, so the government launched an invitation to tender for this project. ...

Status check: Mi espanol
Feb 17, 2008

Yo tuve sorpresa cuando llegue al aeropuerto en San Jose. Podia hablado mas espanol que esperia. Durante el viaje a Orosi, podia hablado con Luis, el chofer, mas o menos. (I was surprised when I arrived at the airport in San Jose. I could speak ...

Laundry lessons
Feb 21, 2008

1. Do not wait until you are down to one pair of clean underwear to do your laundry. 2. Do not wash *all* of your clothes and sweatshirts/jackets at the same time and then think that you'll actually have something of your own to wear for pajamas that ...

Single white female
Feb 21, 2008

Today is one of those days when the cumulative effect of lying is wearing on me. "Are you married?" "No, I'm single." Looking at the ring on my left hand: "Are you married?" "No." (and then not explaining the ring) "Who's taking care of ...

Montana Linda Spanish school
Feb 18, 2008 (5 photos)

Montana Linda (which means "beautiful mountain" in Spanish) boasts that it is the second-cheapest language school in Costa Rica. I'm not sure which school is the #1 cheapest, but I don't care, either. ;-) It's hard to know if my needs would be equally ...

Love And Adversity
May 28, 2009 (3 photos)

... accessory shop called ViTec, in Curridabat just outside of San Jose.  After guiding in Alaska for years, he moved to Costa Rica and started a windshield repair business. That was 20 years ago. He now has a successful bustling business. On the Pacific ...

1 week in Orosi
Nov 27, 2007 (53 photos)

... what I did, but of course, anyone is welcome to read them.  I made it to my first city, Orosi.    I decided to come to Costa Rica a week early before I met my friend Sean in San Jose the next week to continue the trip toward the ...