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Montezuma Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Montezuma, Costa Rica
Pura Vida
... I came to CR! Montezuma is an adorable little costal village nestled up against the mountain side. While this is the dry side of Costa Rica, this town is lush and tropical. None of the travel books (Lonely Planet, etc.) descriptions do it justice. As you ...
un mono en el mano es trabajo de dos en un árbol
... fishing almost impossible. It also ment a long walk turned into an adventure after surf casting past sunset north of Montezuma past playa grande . Smashing logs with the incoming tide against large drift wood piles, coming up to the thick ...
Nouvelles rencontres, SCUBA et yoga.
... (Nicaragua), Argentins, quelques Allemands, quelques Italiens, des Américains. La population est majoritairement Tico c'est a dire née au Costa Rica. *Petite parenthčse sur les Ticos, ils sont reconaissables a leur teint plus basanée moins foncée que ...
Playa Grande & Monkeys
Was feeling a bit miffed this morning as diving was cancelled due to the poor visibility after overnight rain, I'd already had to forego going riding because I thought I was diving and I woke up with ear ache. Not good. I took myself off for ...
Day 82- Return to Montezuma
... begin the best chapter of my life. We had a week remaining on our visas, and we could have gone anywhere in Costa Rica. For some reason, Paul and I felt compelled to return to Montezumam even though we knew, as my mother wisely knew, ...
Smiling and Singing in Montezuma
... www.thisiscostarica.com/langolo-allegro.html L'Angolo Allegro (Italian for 'Happy Corner')... is a great little restaurant in Montezuma - the very first one you encounter, after making your way down the hill. ...
Hiking Montezuma To A Secret Paradisiacal Valley
We have now been to this new hiking paradise five times and each time have been rewarded by at least one new bird we have not seen in this area. We have been able to leave the hostel no later than 7:00 a.m. and have been rewarded for our efforts. ...
Stroke of luck
Nightmare start at 5am as our attempt to catch the bus to Montezuma failed with the bus being full, as we had thought it would be. Back to bed for a few hours facing the prospect of another day and night in La Fortuna, we bumped into Erin, Danielle and ...
Today we visited Montezuma
... sunny so we went for a walk around the property we are staying at. It is a pretty spot. Later we visited the town of Montezuma. We walked along the nice beach and thru the small town. Montezuma has no stop signs and only one ...
Qualified Diver!
... nbsp; I did take some underwater snaps, but haven't finished the camera yet, so they'll come in due course. Please excuse the bikini shots, but I thought you might like some proof that I am actually here and not just posting random pictures of Costa Rica! ...
Weekend Excursions
... to the Cabo Blanco Nature Preserve, about a ten-fifteen minute walk from town, and checked out Cemetary Island nearby as well. Montezuma is a neat little town, touristy but with plenty of locals as well. The ocean side/beach is beautiful in areas though ...
Costa Rica
... the same ecosystem throughout and often what you see in one country you can see similarly in another. Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica all share incredible landscapes... a mixture on rolling jungle mountains, steep volcanos, enormous lakes and unique ...
Pacific coast
... 10 chicas with boards hit the water which reminded us of our diving instructors ´chicas surf camp´ she was telling us about in Costa Rica! By chance we stumbled across a great hostel, it looks new and is full of hammocks everywhere, what we´ve been ...
Waterfalls
... plates, with our fingies, and watched the sun go down. Delicioso!!! Said goodbye to the girls the next day on the ferry (they are headed east to Panama and us west- one more stop in costa rica then Nica!) Playa del Coco, here we come! ...
Happy hour
... a lock. We circled back to the front entrance and foundout the park is closed on Mondays and tuesdays. so we doubled back to Montezuma, getting a discount from our cab driver who felt bad for the park's closure, having him drop us off at the front of the ...
Back to the Beach!
... at our place. It was pretty loud, but fun to watch them all. The only downside to the last few days was that Costa Rica is incredibly expensive. It was four dollars for pack of gum and bag of m&ms. Crazy. I am ...
What a chilled little place
... 's mate who had the most enormous box with him which got the front seat all to itself, and the driver's girlfriend, we arrived in Montezuma. The couple from the sunset booze cruise (San Juan Del Sur - for those not keeping up with our blog - shame ...
Heaven after the storm. . .
I wakened this am to an amazing sunny view of the Pacific. Luna Llena is nestled in the palms and tropicial plants on the side of the hill a few 100 mts from Montezuma... its so ...
Montezuma
... to Montezuma. We got on the 5 AM ferry to Paquera, and got to watch the sunrise along the way. Then we took a taxi to Montezuma, where it was pretty obvious that it had been raining non-stop for the past week. The once clear water was now muddy brown, ...
You won't believe this one! I still don't!
... What the heck will I do with a hammock! So someone is getting a hammock. I have met so many people here who arrived in Costa Rica, for a week -- more than a year ago. And many of them have never left Montezuma! It's definitely a nice place to ...
kunstner by og boelger
... vaere saa nemt som andre steder, med manglende skilte, og en hel del burokrati tog det os 3 timer at bevaege os fra nicaragua til costa rica - de ville saa gaerne ha vi blev lidt laengere. over kom vi, og efter en overnatning i puente arenas, er vi nu ...
PLANES BUSES FERRIES AND TAXIS
... We met John and via taxi ride to the bus stop, we did make our connection. However no time to change money. Well, not to worry, Costa Rica mostly takes American dollars. Now our trip on the bus was about 2 1/2 hours to the ferry that goes across to the ...
Watching the tide roll in
... because it was empty and they served drinks…. From the pool we saw lots of iguanas. Its frowned upon now, but Costa Ricans used to eat iguanas regularly. One of our guides calls iguanas "Chicken of the trees". He also said ...
Making our own trail to the waterfalls
... leaving apologetically, the woman asked if we would like to rent a little cabin for two! It was so cute! Even though Costa Rica is more expensive than the other countries we have been in, we saved quite a bit of money by cooking our own food ...
Montezuma
... , I'm impressed! During the crossing we see dolphins (very cool!) and before we know it we are soon approaching the beach at Montezuma. It's beautiful! It really has a look and feel that's more Caribbean than Pacific. The town is tiny and laid back and ...
Here comes the rain......
... in Costa Rica, or maybe we will go back over the border to Nicaragua to surf there. I have roughly now 3 weeks to travel around Costa Rica before heading back to England on May 21st. I have to decide where I want to travel as there are so many options in ...
Montezuma und Pazifikküste
... Richtung Pazifik aufgebrochen. Mit der Autofaehre uebergesetzt um einen langen Weg zu sparen, sind wir am Mittag in Montezuma angekommen. Vor einigen Jahren noch ein ganz vertrauemtes Fischerdorf - nun auch vom Tourismus laengst eingeholt, aber trotzdem ...
Montezuma
... azul y un penacho de plumas en la cabeza. Son muy atrevidas, e intentaron comerse alguna de nuestras galletas. Subimos a las Cataratas Montezuma, que están muy cerca del pueblo, siguiendo unos de los ríos hacia arriba. Se llega a dos cascadas, la ...