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Monteverde Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Mar 13, 2012
Into the highlands
Well, the coast was good, but we can´t be beach bums forever. It´s off to Monteverde, in the highlands of Costa Rica for some cloud forest hiking and cooler weather. The drive up here was interesting, with big holes in the road, not a lot of signage, ...
La Fortuna- Santa Elena (Monteverde)
Hoy llegamos a Santa Elena (en Monteverde), hicimos una excursión de aventura y por la noche hicimos un safari nocturno. Además reservamos el transporte para la excursión del día siguiente al PN Santa Elena. A las 8.30am nos recogió la furgoneta que ...
Trekking St Elena/Monteverde cloud forest
... truffles and take advantage of their internet whilst trying to keep warm. Visits to a few other destinations Stellas bakery and the Monteverde cheese Co. Back to cabin where we have a lazy evening, not firing on all cylinders.......bug coming on? Dinner ...
La Tortuga Feliz
... way to the boat dock. the boat ride to the project was pretty sweet. we cruised through the jungle canals which were considered Costa Rica's amazon river. LUSH. LUSH. LUSH. wildlife GALORE. howling monkeys over head giving us a shout out, box turtles sun ...
Swinging through the jungle like Tarzan!!!
... lost since street names weren't clearly marked but we got there in plenty of time and settled in for the 4 hr bus ride to MonteVerde. The schedule was tight since on arriving we had only bout 1 hr to get to the hotel and arrange the trip. Though ...
jutilise mes aptitudes de grippe-sous
... pas vu et je ne peux pas imiter les sons a un guide pour quil me dise la race. Je nai pas cette capacite la de faire des cris indescriptibles. Le Costa Rica est genial mais je vais devoir faire attention et me limiter dans mes depenses. ...
Monteverde
Jill, Kasara & Carolyn...sunsets, pot of gold, waterfalls and many laughs, screams and tears. Sacred memories. Where's the ...
Wrapping up my second week - Monteverde
... the Intermediate 1 Spanish classes went on a field trip to the next province over, Cartago. There, we visited a really famous cathedral in Costa Rica, Maria de Los Angeles, or Maria of the Angels, and the open air central market of the capital city of the ...
Monteverde, Costa Rica
We arrived in Monteverde late yesterday, after a pleasant ferry ride off Ometepe and "executive" chicken bus ride to the Nicaraguan/Costa Rica border. I wish I could say the journey through the Costa Rican border crossing was as easy, but sadly it ...
Monteverde
Emma and I took a zip line tour of the cloud forest. They are proud of saying that most travel magazines rate this as the best zip line tour in the world. I believe it. It was a lot of fun. I think there were 19 zip lines,and for fun they had what ...
Cloudular spectacular and other resplendent things
... ! You just wait until you hear this! So we start with jeep-boat-jeep to a place called La Fortuna, which has one of Costa Rica's most well known active volcanoes next to it (Arenal). I went there last time, and to be honest it's alright, but it's a ...
Cheese Factory - Horse Riding in a Thunderstorm
... and when it dawned on me where it was from I spurted out... "the stuff Little Miss Muffet ate!" Anyway, the people of Monteverde take their cheese seriously and they even have an eco friendly way to get rid of the by products of making the cheese... ...
Boat, Bus, and Horse
... as it led to the infamous "Free Love" discussion, one of the highlights of the trip for most people. Since Monteverde is a small town, it shuts down around 9pm, and that was after we finished our dinner. So we decided to go back ...
Josh´s Second bungee jump!
Today I did my second bungee jump in the cloud forest. I am offically addicted to bungee jumping ( Big surprise there) On top of that, I love jumping in the cloud forest. The views before after and during are unbeatable! This time i did a rocket jump, ...
Monteverde, Costa Rica
Went for a canopy walk and zip lining in the cloud forest, what a lot of ...
Cloudbusting, and Running Up That Hill..
... crazy combination of clapped out old American school buses, boats and taxis took us winding up into the central mountain range of Costa Rica. For the first time in about 5 days, it stopped raining for more than 3 hours and our spirits were beginning to ...
Monteverde coffee tours
... the boat ride was a comfortable 2 hour ride on dirt roads in a van that needed new suspension. I wasn't bitter. Finally arriving in Monteverde, we had some good times, but lets skip right to the best part, the Coffee and Chocolate tour! Coffee is grown ...
Monteverde, Costa Rica
... see any unfortunately) as we zipped along on cables, some as high as 100 meters up and 600 meters long! Our last night in Monteverde began with beers and animated discussions about the state of American politics (which of course led to the topic of how ...
COSTA RICE - Short, Sweet and Scary!
... Rica http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=184127&id=625675862&l=6006a1032c We left there and then onto a 2.5hr border crossing with costa Rica...real pain. At least we met a german lad and Swed to share the taxi to Monte Verde, this is a place ...
Jan 09, 2011
Monteverde
... , HOT WATER, and no AC needed as It got very cold at night! I definitly recommend this place for a budget traveller. In Monteverde, we did a Coffee and Cocoa Tour and Horseback Riding. Both Tours were done on the private properties of families. The buses ...
Living it up in the clouds
... la fortina. Met some interesting people that u hooked up with later for a coffee & sugar tour. Cool stuff. Today I went to the monteverde cloud forest with a guide. We saw lots of birds, a monkey, some bugs, and a quetzel. Hope the pics come out! Hotel ...
Monteverde, Volcan Aernal...and bloody cold sores
Monteverde is a great place. Relaxed, calm and tranquilo....When you think of jungle you think of this place. I am staying at Pension Santa Elena with my newfound friends Miriam, Lyndsay, and Allen. I decide to sleep in as it is rainy and the bus ride ...
Canopy Tour (Zipline)
... stirbt an Herzversagen - das Fleisch ist aber nachher trotzdem geniessbar und wird konserviert. Natürlich bekommen wir auch den Red Eye Leaf Frog zu sehen. Er gilt hier in Costa Rica als eine Art nationales Symbol und ist weltweit als Fotosujet bekannt. ...
Cloud Forest Adventure
... bruger ogsaa nok penge, selv om priserne sagtens kunne vaere hoejere. Hyg jer derhjemme i kolde Danmark - vi hygger os i varme Costa Rica! Adios, vi smutter ud og tager en slapper i haengekoejerne - Stine, Marie og Annemette P.S. Vi har selvfoelgelig ...
Rauskuja ja rommia pullo
... Monteverdessä. Tiesittekö muuten, että laiskiainen tulee puusta alas vain kerran viikossa - käydäkseen kakalla. Monteverde on myös kuuluisa, nykyään hyvin vähälukuisesta, Quaker -yhteisöstään. Quakerit ovat jenkkiläinen uskontokunta joka on ...
Up in the Clouds
... I'm sure this combines with a lot of younger backpackers not being able to afford visits here with the recession and rising costs of costa rica. [ We're not quite in either camp, but are feeling that Costa Rica is too expensivo to stay in for long, ...
Está aprendiendo mucho...MY head hurts!
Oi! So many things I have learned! I will try to keep it short and sweet! Today was my first Spanish class and I was pleasantly surprised that I was placed in the advanced class...thanks to the special person who has helped ...