Best Western Flamingo Playa Flamingo

... spray me with a numbing spray. It helped some, but I still tossed and turned all night as I tried to find comfortable position.

The day started with an early morning call from Alberto (the driver who drove us from the airport to the Flamingo Beach Resort & Spa). As promised he had brought us homemade corn tortillas and a fresh cheese-like thing called "Quajado". He had mentioned it was one of his favorite things to have for breakfast and it did not ...

... lucked out for the time being...

The resort we're staying at has been recently renovated and although there were some negative reviews from guests who has stayed there last summer when the bulk of the construction was going on, everything looks (so far) to be order. It's a grat value and has a great location on Flamingo Beach. A note on the beaches here in the Guanacaste region; they are beautiful, warm, clear water and most ...

... be writing our next travel blog from Disney World?? Let's not even consider the possibility. If it comes to that we'll just have to leave Isabella behind! Yeah, like we would do that....

We also considered Hawaii for a brief second in time, but airfare was too expensive (will someone please tell the Hawaiian Tourism Board that there is a global recession!). Where is their bailout money to spur economic activity by subsidizing airfare from mainlanders ...

... day! Finally settled into paradise in Playa Flamingo, it didn't take long for the work to start. We were awarded the luxurious upper level apartment with sweeping vistas of the beach and ocean, usually rented to vacationers but conveniently vacant during our visit. Dawn Scott and her husband Sid run Costa Rica Pet Care, the organization I was volunteering for, and had no shortage of work for us to do! I worked under the umbrella of a ...

... that today was best day to go on the canopy tour...which was a lot of fun, so cool, flying down the ziplines in the jungle, did a tarzan swing, got to see a bunch of monkeys, my vacation checklist is almost complete. Today was a really bad rain day...tomorrow is Graduation and so we are going to go to a different break, Im so excited to catch some different waves yet so sad that the week is almost over!! A bunch of the real surfers are going to Witch's Rock ...

... SPRING BREAK AND WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH THAT DISGUSTS ME. THIS PLACE IS DOWN RIGHT SICKENING. THE ONLY REASON I DIDNT TURN AROUND AND LEAE WHEN I GOT HERE IS THAT IT IS TOO LATE. UNLESS YOU LIKE TYPICAL LAZY BEACH IDIOT TRIPS, AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS.

... overland from Nicaragua. We were supposed to fly from Nicaragua to Costa Rica but chose to forgo the plane flight since we had already traveled so far south into Nicaragua that crossing the border on land seemed more practical. Liberia isnīt much to see, however there is a beautiful National Park called Rincon De La Vieja just 20 km or so from the town. We had a fantastic day there...hiking and swimming in waterfalls.We got our first taste of the lushness of ...

... The sun set to a glorious parade of colours and we still had 4 hours to wait..... Finally we deemed it time so we set off down the beach and ran into Jaun Romero, a man who has counted turtles on the beach for 37 years. I was surprised when he, a conservationist told me that Turtle eggs were an amazing meal that make the blind see and that they were an aphrodisiac. Ah Ha! The reason why Costa Rican families had an average of ten children. Jaun had 13 brothers and sisters ...

After around 40 hours travelling (Tube, flights, 10 hours in LA airport, and 6 hour bus journey) We finally arrived at the beach in Tamarindo. Unfortunately it was already dark so we just found the first place we could find to stay - a hostel packed with drunk american teenagers, we moved the next night to a really nice cabina. lots of dawny surfs and walked all the way to ...

... The weather is similar to London, so you better take an umbrella with you, in case you ever go there. On October 18th I flew to Miami via London. I spent six days at a hostel in the city of the 2003 World Series winners, but unfortunately I wasn't there anymore to watch the parade. It was fun to watch the game on big screen TV though. Otherwise I didn't like the place at all!! Out of season, it was full of gay men and we got ...