Hacienda Tayutic Turrialba

... passing the ball to the Turrialba forward, and the forward passing the ball into the net. There was no score board so I did not know that this was the last 5 seconds, or that this meant that the game was tied. The peanut gallery was not happy, one broke his umbrella on the stands in anger. I had to ask a man who did not seem very angry what this meant for the game. At least now I can say I watched a soccer game in Central America. <br><br>

... and do bring a separate change of clothes and good non-slip shoes, to sit down and have lunch with our guides and Ronald, not eating in separate tables, but altogether in one table. An unexpected familial friendliness and coziness that completed a great morning.<br><br>I definitely recommend Explornatura, it is a friendly, generous, patient, and laid-back adventure company. <br><br>Ronald drove my friend and I back to San Jose, where we&#8217;re greeted with torrential rain.... <br><br>

... spending time with each other. The next morning, I met up with a few friends before class so we could walk most of the way together. It was really nice out - not too hot but not breezy or chilly. The temperature is difficult to determine because it is so humid. Anyway, the morning class was quite long. Fred talks...a lot! Oh well; we talked a lot about the structure of the US health care system and why it is considered in crisis mode. It was a good ...

... outside. So allow me to regale you with what audibly took place: the Patron-effect wore off around 2:30 and from then on I kept hearing a noise like someone tapping metal against glass every so often, like every 30 minutes or so. No idea what that was. Then there were cars going by. A dog barking, a large dog. Might have been Kujo from the Stephen King movie. At about 5:00am people started coming and going. Then my favorite ...

... who was where??? I never even heard them return, which is pretty scary. Our room could have been ransacked and I would've slept right through it. Earplugs work! <br><br>We decided that we hadn't given the beach scene its due, so we headed South down the coast to take in a little more of the Pacific. We ended up in Domical, which is a surfing town. We had lunch on a slight cliff overlooking the ocean which had been recommended and it was ...

... day repituar. Starting off at 5am packing all our generators, backpack electro-pescas, nets, hammocks, waders, and the like. Headed out on our Land Cruiser doing some serious 4x4 crossings of some rivers, downed trees, and dried up stream channals to get us to Bambu where we transferred our gear to a hollowed out canoe with a vicious 15hsp motor to take us down the Sixaola river and up the Yorkin ...

... and then decided to walk with us. It was a pleasant 20 minute walk to the garden. The gardens were beautiful, there were over 1,000 different types of orchids, all types of trees, birds, flowers, succulents and butterflies... From the gardens we hitched a ride into town and then took a bus to Orosi. We were greeted in Orosi by many happy beautiful faces. I am ending this now so that I can upload many pictures rest assured that eventually I will continue to tell our tales...

... one of the Costa Rican directors said that those are the same stereotypes that Ticos have regarding Nicaraguans (nicknamed "Nicas," which is considered a derogatory term) -I returned home around 6pm. The walk is easy and straight forward, you just follow one main road. -Dinner, was something baked, my madre used some type of vegetable that looked like a potato only longer, a little thinner and more twisted. It ...

... rest of the day we were free to do whatever we wanted. For example, the town of Nicoya is only a 400 colones bus ride away (less than 50 cents), and it provides all that I wanted and needed. And then there was enough time to spend at the pool from the nearby Barra Honda Hotel and to enjoy a good book. Monkey Park ...

Escaped from San Jose to Turrialba for my whitewater rafting day on the Rio Pacuare - actually I was starting to quite like San Jose - it was definitely growing on me , no matter what anyone else says :) The scenery on the bus from San Jose was wonderful again - this heartland of Costa Rica the Meseta Central really is picture postcard stuff. Until Thursday I´d been really lucky so far in Costa Rica with the ...