Geliwa Turrialba Hotel

... I needed to at least get a little culture. I thought hmmm, where can I find culture at 4:30 on a rainy Saturday afternoon in a town with no museums, and no interesting buildings? So I said screw it and went to the bar.<br><br> The bar I found was completely empty, except for a man in the corner and the bartender. Soccer was playing on the TV and they advertised cheap beer so I went in for one. Soon after the man in the corner ...

... German orthopedist for a while about the health care system in our two countries, until I realized that I know nothing about how our system works. So I just talked about doc for a while. Apparently I did not do too badly because the group invited me to dinner tonight. My first meal with a group!! Tomorrow I think I will stay in Turrialba and try to do a canopy tour. <br><br> Again no photos, My camera is charged but I did not want to ...

... and then she ranted and gave me a lecture and told me I was stupid for that and I have to keep it at her house and use her internet. She kept saying it was an order. I felt uncomfortable with her raising her voice and pointing her finger in my face. Then her son came over with his little boy, who is actually 3 and a half, not 5 like I thought (he's so cute! He likes me now so he'll joke with me and tells me he doesn't like English and my Spanish is ...

... maneuvers which we momentarily practice riverside. Then it was into the raft, accompanied by our guide Santiago. I had the forsight to get seated behind my cousin, guessing that his height would block lots of the incoming water sprays. This proved to be an accurate hypothesis. Thanks Cousin! <br><br>The entire river trip took about 3 hrs, plus and hour for lunch. It was a lot of fun, especially when we hit the Class 3 ...

... where one, in this case Doug, can't see more than 1/2 a car length ahead of us. Oh and did I mention that there were instances in our trip where we saw that chunks of the road, large chunks of the road, had just dropped off the edge of the cliff due to either mudslides, earthquakes, or some such event? So those thoughts were going through the two guy's minds as well. Those two Nervous Nellies were freaking, in fact Doug loudly announced that ...

... day, entrance to national parks and off course meals (Costa Rican style breakfast, lunch and in some cases dinner). Our multiple-day tours traveling throughout the country are equally complete and exciting. In addition, we provide safe, secure transfers to any part of the country. We began operations in 2000, with the majority of our clients arriving from the United States and ...

... our 'to-do' list in a letter to my sister(oops). After that we went to a very inexpensive Internet cafe to check in with our friends Scott and Junko who we were hoping to meet up with soon. Later that evening, we had dinner with Alex and made arrangements for the following days adventure. As it turns out, the volcano is actually pretty far away 1.5 hours by car, (we have no car) so...we decided to go to Guayabo National Monument, a pre-Colombian site, on the ...

... nejvetsi adrenalinovy zazitek, nebot chvili padate volnym padem do divociny, abyste se pak zhoupli do nejake 50m vysky. Proste parada. ;) Po vsech techto aktivitach jsme si zaslouzili pivo Imperial. Vecer jsme puvodne zamysleli vyrazit do sumu, ale vsechna ta ranni vstavani a k tomu pivo udelali sve, takze jsme spali od 6 odpoledne do 8 rano. ;) Pura vida. :)

... rest of the way (which was 25 minutes on a horse.) The little girl walked the whole way, like it was nothing, practically flying from rock to rock. Later we found out what we just did in more than 4 hours, she does every day to get to school...in less than half an hour!!!How crazy is that? Now I know I have to do ...

... Planet so I figured it was a great place to stay. When we arrived we felt like we were approaching someone's home. This cute two story place was a small B&amp;B. The hotel sits on one acre of tropical garden and is a short walk from the beach. It is very isolated and you certainly don't feel like you are less than a ...