Country Info
- San Jose
- Capital
- Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
- Currency
- 3,773,057
- Population
- CR
- Country Code
Alajuela Slideshow
Alajuela
Travel Blogs from Alajuela, Costa Rica
Day 6
Hi everyone. The engineer didn´t turn up today so we couldn´t move on to the next stage. But there was still plenty of work to do. The girls were working away on the septic tank but still not finished. They are at the stage where they need to be helped ...
Day 3
... named Berta shes an 86 year old women who's two sons are building her a house. because of a miss communication between Ireland and Costa Rica i-to-i. we were supposed to be working for two houses but one of our supovisers Carlos was sick and had to go to ...
Day 2
today we visited the market. eoin learnt a very important lesson today dont squez a frog cause theyll pee on you. proper blog will be posted tomorow and pictures will be added to this blog tomorow adios for ...
Fazit Costa Rica
... dagegen voellig ueberteuert. Als kleiner Vergleich: In den USA bezahlt man 10$ pro Auto (4 Leute) fuer 7 Tage im Arches Nationalpark, in Costa Rica kostet der Santa Elena Nationalpark (Urwald) 14$ pro Person und Tag!!! Place to be: Es ist schwierig etwas ...
Day 12
... by a few other volunteers who played along giving the boys a bit of a rest at times. John had many admirers among the Costa Rican girls with constant calling of his name during the match. One lucky girl even got his e-mail address! The girls also had a ...
Picking up girls in the caribe coast: the Formula
... 'rio está bastante mais introduzida aqui do que em qualquer outro lugar. Os Rastafaris dominam a cena. Dizem que os ticos (costa riquenhos, como são carinhosamente apelidados) não os “curtem”. Mas também, quase não parecem haver ticos por ...
Volcano Poas
It seems as with the wildlife that volcanoes also need to be visited early...luckily the Poas National Park only opens at 8am, so we only had to get up at 6.30! The volcano is still active and has a huge crater (second in size worldwide) which is full ...
Happy to be stranded in a border town for once.
... coconut milk, kindly donated by a guy up a tree with a machete. We chatted to Jenny and Maribel, two Nicaraguan girls working in Costa Rica. They'd come up to the border to get Jenny's dad out of jail. He'd come over to visit his daughter and see his ...
Day 4
Hi everybody. Anne here. We worked very hard today. All the kids -boys and girls- are experts with a shovel and pick now. We started on a new site today which was beginning from scratch. So foundations had to dug- no such thing as a mini digger here. A ...
Time Flies!
Well, despite the years passed I remember the day like it was yesterday. I got the call in the middle of the night that it was time. I rushed around the house and gathered some things to race to the hospital. I sat outside of the room with Wendy, both ...
Volcano Poas
We set off once more to go to Volcan Poas since this was the wettest area we had encountered and since we had not seen it. On arrival it was almost lunch time and the cloud had already started to come down; we decided to give it a try and walked to the ...
livin large
... at the eastern end of a long and narrow dammed lake, which is supposedly the wondsurfing hotspot of the world. Seems that everything in Costa Rica is the best in the world in something or another. We had a three hour layover in a little dusty town called ...
Sleepless in La Fortuna
... had bacon and eggs too) and coffee premixed with milk all for the low price of $4 for both of us. I love eating in Costa Rica. Next we went and booked a volcano watching tour at a hostel offering tours called Gringo Pete's, only to discover from a ...
A caminho de Montezuma
Cinco da Matina, Despertar no Hostel Trotamundos em Alajuela, o sol já se levantava no céu, toca a seguir o caminho do Sul para a Peninsula de Nicoya. 3 horas de autocarro até Punta Arenas, 1 h e meia de Ferry até Paquera, mais hora e meia estrada de ...
May 13, 2010
Soul Searching and Thoughts of Heimlich
When I think of how I felt about the idea of leaving the country for several months, it seemed like a long time and I was excited and a little nervous. I worried about how it would be for me navigating this strange land where I didn't speak their ...
Day 5
Our third day on the building site was hard work again not a s bad as yesterday when we had to cut the grass with a machete but the lads made earthquake supports while the girls dug foundations and the septic tank. While Andrew found a tones de menteos ...
Last day in Costa Rica
... 3 and move from central america to south america. Nearly a quarter of the trip has gone - still 37 weeks to go though. Costa Rica has been different to Mexico. I've travelled much less distance, the scenery has been more consistent and much more ...
Pampering ourselves
Sunday 4th September: We were heading to another part of Costa Rica today – called La Fortuna – and to get there you have a couple of options. In a straight line from Monteverde to La Fortuna it shouldn't take that long, but there is a massive ...
The golden waterfalls
... preços em colones aos turistas, muitos deles perguntam quantos dólares são”. É precisamente esta atitude que criou esta Costa Rica inflacionada e, a espaços, sem respeito pelos “gringos”. A propósito, já contei aqui porque é que ...
2nd week of school
... going to have to figure out a way print out some pictures of my family because they keep asking me bring some in. Tomorrow, the workshop is Costa Rican dancing -- salsa, merengue, etc. so I guess I will be the one learning the most ...
Where to Now?
Hey people I'm in the middle of Costa Rica in a town called Fortuna. I'm here to see the worlds second volcano which happens to coincide with the worlds most obscured volcano (by clouds) over the past couple of days. I'm not too worried because Ive seen ...
Neuvo Arenal
Left Monteverdi this morning to go towards the Arenal Volcano, this consisted of a 42 km drive to the town of Tilaran.On the internet we had read that this would be a better approach route to Monteverdi than the one that we used, all I can say is that if ...
Another volcano,senor ... oh go on then,one more
Up early to take a day trip out of San Jose up to Volcan Poas which is supposedly the most visited national park in Costa Rica. It takes about two hours or so to get there from San Jose by local bus via a nearby town called Alajuela and ...
Managua - San Salvador - Alajuela
... mit der Stadt in Beruehrung kommt und dort hoechstens einmal den Supermarkt sieht, durchaus gewoehnungsbeduerftig. Hinzu kommt, dass in Alajuela an diesem Abend fuer einen guten Zweck, naemlich dem Ausbau eines Hospitals, gesammelt wird und zwar "a ...
De volta a San Jose/Alajuela
... almoço pela zona (não foi grande a experiência comer de comida típica da Nicarágua) e apanhámos o bus vermelho Tuasa para Alajuela. Nota: devem notar vocês... então não viram San José? Na realidade, ao todo estivémos menos de 3 horas, todas as ...
Arenal volcano
... which were shockingly fast, terrifying on the way down and then ejecting you into a face-plant at the end. Costa Rica must fall into a narrow window of development: rich enough to have waterslides, but not so rich as to have ...
Fireflies
After the Internet cafe we mosied back up to our hotel. But onthe way we stopped in a clothing store so I could buy a cheap pair of jeans. $18, amazing. We also stopped for a fajita and fries at a different soda place. We took a short nap when we got ...