Celeste Mountain Lodge Bijagua de Upala

... did I) and I wanted to stock up on some snacks and drinks for the week. As soon as we left Liberia it started POURING! Since we have unseasonably had hardly any rain yet this year in Playa Grande it has been awhile since I had driven during a downpour. Luckily, it only took a little less than 2 hours from Liberia and the road was well paved except for the last 5 miles which was a bumpy gravel road, but very passable.

We arrived ...

... 3 weite Strecken laufen, damit wir das Auto ueberhaupt, mit viel Ueberredungskunst, den Berg hinauf bekommen. Wir fuerchten staendig, dass es uns gleich auseinanderfallen wird. Letztlich kommen wir aber am Parkeingang an, allerdings bleibt durch die lange Anfahrt nur Zeit fuer eine kurze Wanderung zum Wasserfall, statt fuer die volle Runde. Wir stiefeln also sofort los, und etwa eine Wanderstunde spaeter stehen wir vor einem nahezu unwirklich wirkenden Wasserfall. Die ...

... Passage de frontière hyper exotique avec singes et oiseaux! 14h : Bus vers Ciudad Quesada pour un transfert vers La Fortuna. 17h30 : Bus vers La Fortuna (Volcan Arenal). 19h : Arrivée à La Fortuna ...26h30 plus tard! Le lendemain, le volcan était un peu dans les nuages, donc on ne voyait pas jusqu`au sommet! On a tout de meme décidé de faire un Lava Tour en soirée ...

... that offered distant views of the elusive Volcano Arenal. We reached the top only to be foiled again by clouds. Upon our return to town we decided, since were lucky so far in avoiding snakes, to seek them out. We went to an exhibit that held all of the most lethal Costa Rican snakes and were thoroughly disgusted. They had the infamous Fer de Lances and five huge Boas. Again, snakes serve no purpose. On our final day we decided ...

In Monteverde for a couple of nights, after another stop over in Puntarenas. This place is nice but too touristy, therefore too expensive. There are plenty of shops but i can´t afford anything, i am saving myself for later. Unfortunately it is raining a lot so it is hard ...

... we saw everything and he explained them all very thoroughly. Siobhan and I went back into the frog ponds after our tour to try and get some photos, but flash in not allowed and we didn´t get the best of photos. Well, it was a great experience and we saw some really cool looking little guys, so it was all worth it! The following day we set out on our nature hike and found that it was a very quiet day....in other words...we saw nothing. Word ...

Tuesday morning (Christmas day), we took the 2 1/2 our boat ride back from Tortuguero to the mainland, then several hours on the bus to the town of Fortuna, which is right at the base of the Arenal volcano. Funny enough, the town of Arenal is actually farther from the volcano than Fortuna. The volcano was dormant from 1500 AD until July 29, 1968, when huge eruptions ...

Uf tole so bli naporni 4 dnevi, ampak tut vredni vsega mucenja in denarja. Iz raja na plazi, smo se odpravile na dolgo celodnevno pot do mesteca La Fortuna, zraven vulkana Arenal. Arenal je eden od 10 najbolj aktivnih vukanov na svetu. Leta 1968 je pokopal kar nekaj vasi okoli, od takrat pa samo malce pluva skoraj vsak dan. Pot do tja je bila res mucna, od 5h zjutraj do 4h popoldne na avtobusih ala ko to tamo pjeva, vmes je bila pa svetla ...

... combination had ever ocurred to them! Then, a comfortable short boat ride down a river with jungle covered banks interspersed with humble settlements. We saw a few birds on the way and a caiman (small alligator) sunning itself. Los Chiles, the border town in Costa Rica was small, tidy and already seemed more prosperous and ´Westernised´ than similar-sized towns we had encountered in Nicaragua. We gratefully accepted the Costa Rican currency the ...

Travled from the surf town of Tamarindo to the central highlands and to northern Costa Rica. It is really a challenge to travel in this country for many reasons which I won´t go into just yet cause I am sure there will be many story telling days to come involving travel. But, a few buses and taxi rides later, I ended up in a remote town in the mountains of northern Costa Rica, overlookng Lake Nicaragua. I was guided here by my brothers´ friend who owns some ...