Hostal Ciudad Blanca Liberia

... only white people in the place!<br><br>Somehow we made it through the night at the hotel- we slept with the light on! I at least wanted to see the bugs if they were going to crawling all over me! Besides, we had an early 5am wake up call to catch the Tica bus..and thus begins our 2 day trek to Guatemala. Twenty-three hours on a bus and 4 boarder crossings later, we were there...exhausted, but finally in Guatemala. I think it´s necessary to share with you a ...

... get into. <br> christmas shop in liberia<br> <br> <br> <br> We wanted to spend as little time in the room as<br>possible, so we walked around town and up to the park for some ice<br>cream. On the way, to get icecream, we looked up and saw the most beautiful rainbow. There was an old lady who was wearing an apron ...

... smell of sulphur. Apparently the shulphurous gases along the crater are so strong that people hiking up to that region can only stay for 15 minutes or they will risk passing out or falling into the crater.<br><br>We passed beautiful streams and gorgeous jungle, spotting a Mexican Parrot Snake, a couple different species of lizards, and the most vibrant blue butterflies. If anyone has the chance this hike is a must in Costa Rica. The next ...

... the trees.<br><br>The one that i saw was in a tree that the capuchins were traveling through. The monkeys alarm called at the tayra, and a few ran close by and chased the fairly large animal out of the tree. Tayra's will eat many things...and would absolutely snack on an unsuspecting capuchin.<br><br>I have a day of Lab work tomorrow...lots of sitting around measuring out specific weights of monkey poop! hooray!<br><br>_R <br>

... to go to Rincon de la Vieja, a national park. We had heard there was no bus, and hostels were there very expensive (our only chance would have been to camp there, but we have no camptent, and just one sleep bag). My idea was to stay in LIberia and take maybe a bus in the morning (I asked and they told me that there should be buses at morning), but Amelia wanted to take a taxi and try to sleep there. So we did like that, we took a taxi for 10 dollars each, and we got ...

... one of the truck drivers and found we should have gone through the closed barrier. We were able to go in front of the driver and make our way back onto the correct road with the help of the police who made the join even worse than it should have been. This was our first clue that it was going to be chaotic. It took 20 minutes to get back on the correct road and then we drove to the Customs building and parked. The person helping us then arrived and asked for our ...

... did nothing except lounge around and hang out. Catharine talked with the monkeys (I have a video that I am not allowed to post, but if anyone knows how to post just the audio, please let me know--it is priceless!), we watched the sunset with a bottle of wine, and fended off the advances of three bandidos (also known as raccoons) who were very interested in our dinner of bread, cheese, fruit and chocolate. All-in-all, a great day. At least for me...

... drink or a bite to eat at the swim-up bar. We had been trying to arrange to go to Panama and see the Canal at the last part of our trip. But it turned out that between the travel time and tour schedules it just would not have worked out. So we decided to continue our stay here at Tabacon. Today we visited the La Fortuna watterfall. It takes a 600m (about 2000ft) steep hike on a quarter-of-a-mile trail ...

... little town full of locals and an OK beach. There happened to be a festival going on in celebration of the "dia de la anexion". The 25th of July is when Costa Rica annexed Guanacaste back from Nicaragua. The festivities lasted all weekend. There was a parade with local school kids, a rodeo, dancing, carnival games, vendors, kareoke, etc. It took place on the town plaza which is right in front of the beach. The beautiful ...

... himself in the White house, they were so loud) and on the other side of me, I was nearly blinded by two ladies who decided to wear their Sunday whites on a turtle tour. Their white tank tops and silver chains shimmered under the moonlight..lovely normally but not for a turtle tour. And then, there was the man in front of me that kept putting on some machine that had a blue gleam reflecting off it..I couldn`t swear it was a camera but same ...