Cerro Alto Lodge Turrialba
Camino Siquierres 1, 10 Km. Centro de Turrialba Turrialba, Province of Cartago, Costa Rica
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Crispy bits and topless drive-bys
... of no-goes (aka the pant mountain) has grown and often now takes over the entire sink making teeth cleaning a complete no-go rather than a merely unpleasant chore. Despite the wafts, its a lovely atmosphere in the pad, if not a little noisy when the Jose contingent begin their daily play fights. Thankfully Big Daddy Jose often has time for a moral chat and calming word. Mamma Cakay on the other hand merely shouts achieveing nothing more than ...
Trek Across Costa Rica
... I must admit to being a tad nervous at the start both from possibly talking up my trekking experience so that I could lead a group (and therefore navigational abilities etc) and from the stories that I had heard back from the groups that had done this as part of phase 1. The stories from both venturers and project managers having a pretty tough time over some pretty challenging days were reasonably grim.
So I headed off on this phase with a ...
One of my favorite places ever!
... out zip lining with a company called 100% adventure. It was really fun but at the end there was a huge tarzan swing which was almost like bungee jumping. It was sooo scary. Leighann especially found it scary and had quite a recovery period. There was also a zipline called the superman where you get to zipline with the string attached to your back. It was really fun.
The second day we went ...
Paddling paradise, Pacuare
... IV set of rapids the water churns wildly creating huge fluid steps which the raft seems to teeter momentarily on the edge of before plunging down, drowning the front two paddlers and violently flicking its tail, thrusting the rear paddlers forward headlong in to the middle of the raft. All this is great fun providing you keep a foot firmly anchored under the rubber side of the ...
San Jose, Costa Rica
... razor wire. But they had fast food restaurants, news cars, even an air-conditioned mall! The first night there was wonderful. We went to a gay dance club! It was my first once in three months, and boy was it good! Loud thumpa-thumba, cute guys, smoke and lights. I was making eyes at a cute fella and his friend came over to ask me if I spoke English or spanish. It was really nice of her! ...


