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Puntarenas Slideshow
Puntarenas
Travel Blogs from Puntarenas, Costa Rica
My first experience Horsebackriding
Very fun, but hot!!! We had to stop for lunch and a couple of beers along the ...
Montez(f)uma, Costa Rica, Pura Vida...
After a few Imperial beers in the Hostel with a girl from vienna and the US I decided to go to Montezuma the place where Lolita (real name Christina) the US girl lives and work. She promissed me nice beaches, good weather and a lot of fun. 12h later we ...
Surfing in the C.R.
... shop told us that bus comes around 9-9:30 a.m., so we hurried to the bus statio. But just as I have learned to expect here in Costa Rica, the bus did not show up until 10:30 a.m. We pretty much spent 1.5 hours in the heat, watching for the bus when we ...
Searching for the Waterfall...
I don't know what got into us today...Brendan and I were up early to check out the monkeys and the rainforest creatures that we'd heard all about from the other visitors. We saw the moneys and the maintenance workers, a couple skinny racoons, and Paul ...
surfing, smoothies and spanish!!!
... butts for months. For the rest of the day we finished off the surfing games and practiced Spanish with these 2 surfers from Costa Rica. We played cards for over 2 hours and spoke Spanish the entire time. I LOVE LOVE LOVE speaking Spanish ...
Flip-Flopping It
At our first (and biggest) river crossing of the day, I opted to flip-flop it the rest of the way. Ash and Scott looked at me nervously. Although charging the world with bare feet or slippers is all the craze in Hawaii, it was true that I'd never ...
La Rana Bocona
Been a long time since my last blog, for which i apologize, however, the excitement quota somewhat declines when you are ensconced in one town and working every day! It is two months since i waved Steve off in a Heathrow lay by (i'll ignore the ...
end of a nice, but painful week
so, its been a week and lots and not much happenings. going back to the first few days at the resort, most of which were spent not doing much. my burn was still as strong as when i had just gotten it and just now is starting to fade....and peel, ...
Monkeys and toucans and sloths...oh my!
I finally made it to Hacienda Barú, my home away from home for the next 2 months or so. THIS is the Costa Rica I have been waiting for- warm weather, moist air, lush green rolling hills. It is absolutely beautiful. A little about Baru. It is ...
Manuel Antonio NP and other Ramblings
Manuel Antonio National Park Today we hit the beautiful beaches of Manuel Antonio National Park, which is just a 10 minute bus ride from our hostel. We walked with Ani in the shady area along the beach, giving her some morning exercise. Then ...
Wildlife Trails around Sirena Ranger Station
Rano jsme byli probuzeni vychodem slunce, ktery udelal z naseho stanu finskou saunu, takze jsme rychle utikali do stinu. Behem dne jsme si prosli ruzne cesty dzungli i podel more, ktere nabizeji moznost videt ruzne druhy zvirat - krokodyli, male zraloky, ...
The longest travel day yet
... bus arrives in Liberia where the locals discuss the fact that (a) we cant get to Monteverde from there (b) we need to continue to Puntarenas (c) we need to go to Tilaran and switch buses (d) we need to go to Canas and switch buses (e) we need to go ...
Costa Rica - Pura Vida
... for a swim in the afternoon was definitely needed and the water a little too warm to cool you down much. We stopped in Jaco Costa Rica, a cool surfing town and met some good folks all amazed at our trip so far - some new yorkers - couldnt believe we ...
Feliz Navidad Amigos!
... by Columbus as he saw "more gold here in a day than a year in Spain". The gold, however, failed to materialise and Costa Rica was largely ignored by Spain for many years - this turned out to be a blessing as the European exploitation was kept to a ...
Paradise Falls
This is a top pick! ... we had to leave and catch the bus. Dissapointed, we left our hotel unwillingly. This means all of our pictures from Guatemala to Costa Rica were lost forever. In a weird kinda of way, it made me remember the places and faces even more; without the ...
Manuel Antonio
Well, here I am at the beach. I am at Manuel Antonio, a national preserve. It is on the central Pacific coast and is beautiful, although a bit touristy and expensive. The guidebooks gaurantee a monkey sighting, and sure enough on our way back from ...
our last voyage through Costa Rica
... off. Mike preferred to stay dry, so he watched our stuff while another extremely large lizard happened to come and sit near him. In Costa Rica the days usually are half sunny then half rainy, so we got back to our dungeon, packed up, then relocated to ...
Dia 11. Bahia Drake - Isla del Caño
*** PLANING *** Dia completo de Buceo en la Isla del Caño. Hacer 2 o 3 inmersiones según veamos. www.canodiverscostarica.com Precio 2 Inmersiones = 130$ Precio 3 Inmersiones = 180$ Se contrata en el PirataCove www.jinetesdeosa.com Precio 2 Inmersiones ...
cam
Got the best located room of Costa Rica so far, right on the beach, but so full of mossies had to have the fan on high all night - could only just hear the waves crashing nearby. Walked a couple of k's to a beach supposedly good for snorkelling, but only ...
Monteverde
Ok, so today was quite an eventful day. First of all, I got persuaded into canyoning. The bus picks us up and we have a whole crew of 4 + driver for ourselves. They are all very friendly, keep on laughing. We suddenly stop on the side of the road. One ...
Its fun to speak 5 languages!
... and I would continue to hang out the rest of the night and the following day. I met a girl from canada who's traveling around costa rica for a couple of months. There was a girl from Buenos Aires, but I forgot to get her contact information (for when I ...
Messing around at Barcelo Tambor
SO...today's our last day in Costa Rica. I'm missing it already. We woke up early to take a picture of the sunrise. Of course, we've waited until the last possible day to see it :) Procrastination and laziness at it's best! I've enclosed a bunch ...
Manuel Antonio
A doua zi după o scurtă leneveală pe plajă am ajuns în Manuel Antonio. Aici am descoperit un restaurant cu totul special, cu o priveliște extraordinară către ocean și către o insulă apropiată. ...
Cocodrillos (Crocodile tour) y Tortuga Island!!!
... you turned. We first got out and went snorkeling! And in all the times I've gone snorking (Thailand, Hawaii, and Costa Rica before) I have NEVER seen so many breathtakingly beautiful fish!!! It was so incredible! We were able to swim around this ...
Where the Wild Things Are...Manuel Antonio
Since I didn't have a plan, I tagged along with Stephanie to Quepos, a place a local had told her was crawling with wildlife. Quepos itself was nothing special, although we did stumble across a really good casado (typical meal of meat, rice, beans, ...
Bosque Nuboso Monteverde.
The day before yesterday we got up early to catch the jeep-boat-jeep to Santa Elena. In the first jeep (actually a minibus) we met a really cool couple: Markelle from Greece and Michael from the USA. They ended up staying in the same hotel as us and even ...