Guanacaste Hotel Liberia

Liberia ist, meiner Meinung nach, echt keine Reise wert. Jedoch ist mir auf der Durchreise nichts anderes uebrig geblieben, als eine Nacht da zu verweilen. Zum guten Glueck war ich nicht allein unterwegs, weils definitiv keine Stadt ist, an der ich mich Nachts alleine auf die Strasse getrauen wuerde.<br>Um unseren einen Tag in Liberia zu ueberbruecken besuchten wir den parque national ricon de la vieja. Dieser war definitiv eine Reise wert ...

... side, just before leaving a Costa Rican tramitadore came to us and asked if he could help. Since the first was so good we said yes. This was a wrong decision as we were to find out. He told us to drive along the road and he would meet us. We did this and came to barrier that was down and a sign directing us to the fumigation area. We decided we had to go through the fumigation, basically a weak car wash unit. Once through there were two roads we could take so Mike ...

... during breakfast--a five year-old boy was quite taken by her and grabbed her hand to take her for a closer look at the offending lizard. Although Catharine was perhaps looking for a slightly older male companion, as the male half of the American couple sitting next to us pointed out, the kid would be much easier to train! I wish I could say that we spent the rest of our day exploring Costa Rica's rainforests or other natural wonders. But, no ...

... not at bad as the one up to Monteverde. We´re staying at a resort called Tabacon Grand Spa (http://www.tabacon.com/). The hot springs, part of the resort, are located in this amazingly large and well design rain forest with the natural hot spring water flowing through its many natural looking pools at different temperatres. And of course, there are cold water pools where you can cool off and grab ...

I rented a car and actually drove in Costa Rica for the first time. I'm glad I upgraded to the 4WD. The car was helpful in getting around, since the public transportation wasn't too great where I was. I stayed at Playa Potrero, which has basically no town and a very plain (but deserted) beach with brownish sand and water. But it was a good central base for exploring. To the south (15 min?), is Playa Brasilito, which had a ...

... the tour operator reopened his office. Neway this time luck wasn`t on our side. We sat for four hours in the dark on the beach of Playa Grande but no sign of a turtle. I`m not surprised to be honest..The pre-requisites of any successful turtle sighting are silence and darkness with absolutely no photography. On one side of me, I could hear two Americans discussing Bush`s policies with two Canadians (and I wouldn`t be surprised if Bush heard ...