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Monteverde Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Misty Mountain Hop in Monteverde
... in Costa Rica. They are very helpful with info and bookings. This friendly atmosphere is lacking in many hotels / hostels we stayed in Costa Rica, but this family run hotel is one of its kind and made our stay very enjoyable. First day, December 31, ...
Monteverde
... , i am saving myself for later. Unfortunately it is raining a lot so it is hard to be outside for too long. Costa Rica is the most touristic country in Central America, it became very americanised in the last few years especially, and the prices ...
Monteverde
The journey from Arenal to Monteverde was great and the rain has actually finally stopped! We still weren´t able to get a full view of the volcano, but at least we could see some of it! The "jeep-boat-jeep" that we had been sold actually turned out to be ...
Cloud Forest Zip Lining / Tarzan swing / Rappel
... La Fortuna for $25 as opposed to the local bus. It was so much quicker and nice scenery. We booked into Costa Rica's 5 star hostel - Arenal Backpackers - fully equipped with private bathrooms, a swimming pool with swim up bar and lush ...
IM FREAKIN EXHAUSTED
HEY KELLEY. I HAVE HIKED ALMOST 60 MILES IN THE PAST FEW DAYS. IM UP IN THE MOUNTAINS IN MONTEVERDE WHICH IS A FAIRLY POPULAR PLACE TO GO BUT ITS STILL A NICE PLACE TO VISIT. LOTS OF CLOUD FOREST PARKS AND TROPICAL DRY FORESTS. ...
Zip lines, rainforests and snakes
... out the Sky Trek on zip lines.... literally hanging from just a cord hundreds of metres up in the air over Monteverde rainforest reserve! Absolutely fantastic, although after climbing up the first set of spiral stairs I was really quite scared when I ...
If it's a cloudforest, why is it raining so hard?
... just about all night! The next day I made it out to one of the many cloudforest reserves near Santa Elena/Monteverde, although unfortunately it rained heavily all morning. I got absolutely drenched wandering around, but the rain and mist certainly added ...
Dinner in a tree house
... got a call an hour into the journey to go via another town to get here (we nearly ended up taking a 4 hour detour!). And Monteverde turns out to be exactly what I expected and so much more! It's not only cooler here and much more picturesque ... ...
Costa Rica - Monteverde
... to try to make a living through logging and farming. It was a 4 hour bus ride to our half way point in San Jose (capital of Costa Rica), but the driver still felt the need for a break after an hour and told everyone to get off for a minimum of 20 ...
horse poo foot
We´ve been in Monteverde for 2 days now, arriving after a 9hr bus journey. On the first night we went to a bar called Bar Amigos, which was a cross between a Texan barn and a school disco. Couples with perfectly practiced dance routines were there, as ...
Costa Rica: The Beginning of my Spanish Obsession
... because the previous year had left me way behind. I complained about doing poorly at home, so my parents bribed me with a trip to Costa Rica if I brought my grades up. Of course I started staying after school to work with her, and in not too long I was ...
Travelling? What`s Travelling?
... abilities that holidaymakers don't have or need. Just this week we joined a two day tour to a fairly remote part of Costa Rica (move forward 4 for going somewhere remote) accessible only by boat (+2) in order to see sea turtles laying their eggs in ...
Endless possibilities.
... behold the view from my window, sleep overtakes me, ably assisted by the rumble of the diesel engine. I awake twisting down into Monteverde and eventually pulling in to the curbside. The town is small, barely a triangle of buildings, but the area ...
Back to the mountains! Woo Hoo!
... business abrupt stop on the tarzan swing view from the loft @ Bar Amigos in Monteverde me and Venga the puppy in Santa Teresa so (not) cool ...
Our heads in the clouds...
... between ocean and mountains (and our driver spotting a howler monkey) we made our way to the bumpy road leading from Puntarenas up to Monteverde. Although the road was only 15 km it managed to take us at least an hour and a half due to the rough ...
Weekend #1
... Yourself before making our ascent back to Casa Del Toro. Sunday, it poured rain most of the day and when it pours rain in Monteverde it seems to swallow up the whole region in a thick mist making it hard to see even the neighbor's house. Luckily for us ...
Adios Monteverde!
... the public elementary and high schools). The other interesting news story that we have been following has been issues on the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. There is a dispute over part of the border region, and river,over who it belongs to. As ...
Frogs and Insects and Butterflies-Oh My!
... to the Ranario (Frog Pond). We had a guide that took us through the exhibits and showed us numerous types of frogs unique to Costa Rica including one called "blue jeans" and Costa Rica's most famous frog "the red eye tree frog." There was another family ...
Two full weeks in Costa Rica!
And so we close our first week in Monteverde, and our second week in Costa Rica. Since we last left off on Wednesday we have been keeping very busy. Thursday was another typical day at school with a rainy afternoon to follow. After dinner we headed back ...
Cloudforest trails
... . A bus was waiting for us when we moored up and we started the climb up bumpy and twisting roads to Monteverde. The scenery was spectacular, rolling green mountains, the lake in the distance and occasionally still that illusive volcano. ...
Miercoles
... so between studying spanish vocabulary and watching cartoons in spanish we began to contemplate some of the different quirks here in Costa Rica. For example, the use of toilet paper. You are not supposed to put toilet paper in the toilet after you use ...
An attraction to strings.
A wonderful breakfast of fruit and pancakes cannot settle that feeling of dread in the depths of my stomach. I've booked a zip lining session in the rain forest canopies, but at this point in time I am still unsure if I will go through with ...
Pax för att vara Tarzan
... ser. Guiden (Danilo) var (sitt) guld värd, han kunde berätta om allt. Tex. finns det över 400 vilda kaffesorter i Costa Rica men ingen av dem är drickbar. Utan det kaffe som odlas i Costa Rica (och resten av central/sydamerika?) för produktion är ...
head in the clouds
... . all the while, carrying a telescope over her shoulder - ready to spot for your viewing pleasure. it turns out...costa rica has more species of birds than the US and canada combined. they also have more species of plants than throughout ...
Zip lining the cloud forest!
... half an hour of crossing the border from Nicaragua to Costa Rica we were all very aware that we had changed countries. Costa Rica is definately more developed, more touristy and more expensive (way more so than we were expecting!!) and the roads ...
Canopy og jeep-båd-jeep
Idag havde vi besluttet os for at vi ville videre mod La Fortuna som er en en by nordpå der ligger tæt på en af Costa Ricas mest spændende naturoplevelser: Den aktive vulkan Arenal. Inden da skulle vi dog på en canopy-tur. Canopy er en lidt ...
After Tamarindo
After Scamarindo, I mean gringo land, I mean Tamarindo I got to San Jose Costa Rica Backpackers hostel and started to meet people from all over the world. I can't even begin to say how much I have learned about the world. I hung out for a while and grew ...
That was almost NOT a road!
... get tp admire the many attractive CR men wandering below. Then we head for Sofia..a restaurant that Frommers says may be 'the best in Costa Rica.' strange since this is a small tourist town down a long bad road. But they aren't wrong. ...
The quest for the quetzal
... noises. First some birds, than the howler monkeys, than a orchestra of birds, frogs and other animals. Now we are in Monteverde. We hope to spot the quetzal, a mythical bird, national bird of Nicaragua and breathtakinly beautiful. I start with a "Tour ...