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Santa Cruz Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Santa Cruz, Costa Rica
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Bus ride to... Oh, anywhere
... backpack and hop off the bus in Guapiles. In some places, overshooting my stop might be frustrating, but Costa Rica is not one of them. I strike up conversation with a local tour/rafting guide named David Soto and we become ...
Sweating it out in Costa RiCCCCCa
Arrived in Costa Rica yesterday, in the gringo free town of Santa Cruz. Still travelling with a slightly depleted group of 6 people (having left our friend Clint woofing in the eco lodge we stayed at on the Isla da Ometepe in Nicaragua). We travelled ...
Spiderwebs in the face...
... more upsetting to them then it is for me...but man...no fun... luckily, there are very few spiders in this part of Costa Rica that are dangerous...or can realy even pierce human skin...so....yeah... other then the full time job of removing spider butt ...
Viciously Attacked!!!
... and i, for the billionth time, ran into a spiderweb. Well most the time this is no problem. Especially in this region of Costa Rica, there are very few dangerous spiders. This doesn't mean that the non-dangerous ones are gunna leave you alone though. ...
Cruisin' thru Costa Rica
... up to the hype in the guidebooks or tourist pamphlets and we didn't stay long. Next day after too short a stay in Costa Rica we headed to the border ....... next country - Nicaragua! For overlanders and those with a particular bent on travelling this ...
BS is alive and well
Today we decided to give a horse riding and BBQ dinner experience that was very highly rated on Tripadvisor a try. Needless to say, at the end of the night we had been entertained. And then some. First, let me ...
Santa Rosa NP
Should have my luggage... but sadly no... I think we only spent the night at Santa Rosa and then drove to Playa Naranjo, then to Plao Verde... where my luggage eventually came... my birdlist : Great Curassow Male & Female Elegant Trogon Toledo ...
Arenal - another Tarzan Swing
... around 16:00. I lost and found my watch and went home. To go home even more interesting taking a taxi is a littel different in Costa Rica- the roads here have no name (...and when they have a name it isn´t used and nobody know where it is). This ...
Monteverde, Costa Rica
leave Sanctuary Resort .. no obligations until Thursday. We'll just play it as it comes,,,,But it looks like Monteverde and Lago de Arenal... And so it was. We left Playa Azul at about 0900+/- and headed for Tilaran. We stopped at the ...
Wow....i suck at updating
... world of mine is the lack of rain...october and november are considered the rainist months of the rainy season for this area of costa rica, with september and december (usually) getting quite a bit of rain as well...but for whatever reasons we ...
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