Bahia Esmeralda Santa Cruz

... the tip of the iceberg as<br>far as American restaurant chains are concerned. I was impressed to see the Porsche and Land Rover dealerships! De veras?! (Really?!)<br><br>We talked<br>with a couple of other travelers who were headed to Antigua, which is<br>about an hour ride from the city, and decided to share the cost ...

... the mountines I could not see from there, but I could see the mountines on the other side. Ok, hard for me to describe, but I have also a video. I climbed a little to make pictures and then continue to the second waterfall, the "real one", which was not at all impresive, but there was a lake where I made a bath before coming back to pick Amelia up. The poor had been eaten by some insects and she had the back like with sarampion for several days. Poor!! As we wanted to ...

... such as a Koati, according to his owner. So we stuffed him in the car, shipped him back to Dawn's and I heavily sedated him and sutured up his face and chest on the patio table. Another day, Chad and Dawn were out picking up animals for surgery, when they came across a cute little black dog with an obviously broken hind leg. The owners were concerned, and were treating a wound on the leg with cattle wound spray, but had no money to ...

... bare nyde de sidste 4 ug** sammen, det skal nok blive rigtig godt! D. 18 januar flyttede jeg fra skolen og hjem til en lokal familie i stedet. Jeg havde længe tænkt ov**, at det ville være bedre for mit spanske, at komme lidt væk fra kollegiet hvor vi mest snakk** engelsk. Samtidig ** det også lidt billig**e, i familien får man nemlig morgenmad og aftensmad. På skolen købte vi selv det hele. En veninde fra skolen havde boet hos en familie i 3 måned ...

... som vi måtte åbne fra morgenen af. Ditte fik æren af at åbne, og indeni gemte sig en masse små hyggelige juleting og andet godt - det hjalp meget på julestemningen, for må nok indrømme at julen virker langt væk når man er her. Derefter stod den på kogekunst i Risengrød, vi havde gang i de helt store gryder, og selvom klokken ikke var mere en 10 om formiddagen var det meget varmt at stå i køkkenet og røre i gryder i 40 min. Det endte også med at begge br ...

... swing, ate some fresh pineapple...and came back in the rain, started to drink, eat the mexican pizza which is freaking awesome..seriously I am in love with it...it tastes so good when it touches your mouth...then drank more beer, had 20 min to get ready...walked across street..ate and then came back and drank more beers...I came to bed and most of the other went to Babylon for Reggae night...i hope they had a good time. Buenos Noches .

... and we did. He is the guy with shotgun. The next day, having made our reservations in the tourist office, we went on a volcano tour. This is harder than it sounds. It involved: 1) climbing up one side of a very large volcano covered with large and medium-sized lava stones, all this in a gale force winds - up to 35 or 40 knots 2) visiting the top in the same wind to see the smoke and steam coming out and the cone itself - our guide wanted us to continue up an around the rim ...

... Dive School was really friendly and we had lots of fun with them.... and coincidently the Dive School owner went to the same school as me in Saudi Arabia and during the same time as me......and used to be in the swim team I{d have swam against....what a small world!! Also met some nice guys from Germany and ended up having celebratory cocktails after we finished our course. Off to a new place tomorrow.......

... deserted. We then realised that we had no clue where to go or who to talk to so we just went to check the beach. It was very tranquil so we gathered there was no Turtle action that night we were starving so we walked around for a bit and came to a bar full of ****** up boisterous (I´d also say annoying) Gringo volunteers who were there to count Turtles but with the lack of Turtles were singing Karaoke rat deafening volumes. There was no food going anywhere so we found a cabi ...

So here we are in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Hard to believe we are still in CR. It is pretty much all foreigners here on vacation, trying to get away from winter back home. As the most recent Lonely Planet guidebook says... it is a bunch of fat North Americans lying on the beach like beached whales. I laughed when I read it, but when I got here I realized how true it was. However, at first I thought this would be a good break ...