Mi Casa Hostal San Jose
100 mts north and 25 mts east from La Sabana Tower, Sabana Norte San Jose, Province of San Jose, Costa Rica
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Back in the city
Lots to catch up on. Having travel companions didn't leave much time for lengthy internetting until now, so this might be a biggy. JJ and Farah joined us from London on 20 May. We met them at Managua airport, Nicaragua, and introduced them to Pepita. I think they thought we were kidding. "Yeah right, where's the real car?" I thought Chris might …
Don't bother going to San Jose!
Travelled for about 7 hours to get to San Jose, Costa Rica. Crossing the Panama-Costa Rica border involved a lot of queuing and passport stamping and walking across a long rickety bridge over a river that divided the two countries. The main bus terminal in the Costa Rican capital is not only in the centre of the dodgy town but in the red light …
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Dealing with Monopoly money
... of those countries where millions and millions of the local currency are equal to 1 euro. So we had a number of 10 000 colona notes. We got in a cab to be taken to our hostel and the fare came to 3300 colona. I said to Rob to give the taxi driver 4000 (inc tip) so Rob gave him what he thought was 4 X 1000 notes whilst I got our bags. The taxi driver gave Rob one of the notes back. Rob then proceeded to give me a lecture about ...
¡Bienvenidos! Downtown San José, Costa Rica
... It was a good thing a friendly local Tican helped us to the entrance; we saw a lot of cool animals that unbeknownst to us at the time would not be seen by us again on our trip (Tican animals like to hide when you're looking for them in the wild, it turns out!). Probably my favorite animal at the zoo was the Leopard; it came over to us when we approached its cage, and while it paced around in front of us, it kept meowing and making many "Kona-like" noises. (Naturally, we talked back ...
Mythical creatures
... up other bird’s nests and to eat their young which shines a different light on them. It started raining hard so we took shelter with some Americans on a tour, one of whom spotted a massive iguana right at the top of a tree – which lead to one of LK’s best photos yet. We stayed in Fortuna for another night during which time we finally saw the top of the volcano. It looked like a volcano. We went back to San Jose and got up early enough the next day to do ...
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