Casa El Dorado Escazu

Escazu Escazu, Province of San Jose, 1260, Costa Rica

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Costa Rica Adventure - week 1

A travel blog entry by lieselbotha

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... over it with her front flippers. Every now and then she would stop and remain completely still, just resting after all this effort. How astounding. Our two hours was almost up, so after a final look at this giant creature (shell length over 1m 20cm) we got to look at her head and then followed Luis back to the hut. What a unique and humbling experience. It was great to see how they are making the effort to help the turtles as much as possible, with minimal interference. The Tortuguero ...

Our last day- el dia final

A travel blog entry by 3beansabroad

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... guards, high fences and the comparatively large number of joggers seem to bear out the truth of this. Just past the Embassy of Holland we found Bagelmen's and stopped in for two bagels and two OJs which set us back about $10. Kate announced that she was not feeling well. Mom decided to press on a little farther to see if it got any better with bagel applied.

Most of our walk was uphill. We moved through a nicer neighborhood and then into what ...

Downtown San Jose

A travel blog entry by 3beansabroad

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... Fernando was very fun and we enjoyed whistling with him. We had just seen similar whistles inside the museum called ocarenas.

The bus back to the hotel is about $.60, but the buses in San Jose are not run by a single agency and they lack organization that makes any kind of sense to people who don't live here. The lack of addresses and street names compounds the problem. We walked around for a while looking for ...

Day 11

A travel blog entry by calinedaun23

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... and her boyfriend Ricardo came and picked us up from school. They took us to this amazing restaurant called Tiguicia. It was located in Escazu, a province of San Jose. It took about 25 min to get there on a very windy road. We traveled to the top of the mountain which over looked the entire city of San Jose. This is probably one of the most amazing things I've seen in a very long time. I couldn't get over how breath taking the view was. (pictures will ...

Feels Almost Like Home!

A travel blog entry by elcapitan

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... rum from Nicaragua which we had become attached to). The rest of the night got pretty ridiculous and I won't go into all the details, but let's just say it was a great last night in Costa Rica and we definitely went out with a bang!

The next morning was rough for some of us, but not me I am proud to say. Brian and I got a taxi to the airport at around 7 AM and got back into the Springs about 11 PM due to delays from storms in Denver. Our wonderful ...