Hotel Buena Vista Alajuela

... yourself greeted by friendly, English (or understand) speaking taxi drivers, much to our surprise. I say that only because I was expecting it to be an unorganized scene, more of a free-for-all, to which I stand corrected. The weather is pleasantly cool, not humid at all, at least not yet. We cleared the airport around 9:30p, and the drive into San Jose gave me the impression of a simple and homey city, peppered with colonial ...

... cliff. <br><br>After such a thrilling welcome we got to antigua. Contriary to guatemala city, antigua was packed. Cars parked everywhere and lots of people, maybe because the same reason that it is holiday. As soon as we entered the city, we wanted to get off the van and start walking. Just looking at the colonial buildings give a special feeling. <br><br>It took a while to find our hostel but we did, paid the driver and oficially started our guatemalan vacations.

... too. There are a lot of no go areas during the day and any where at night is always fun. But its a good base to get about. First we headed for the hills and up into the Cloud forest to a place called Monteverde. The cloud forest is a very dense rain forest with a huge amount of tropical wild life, epically beautiful frogs. Monteverde is a nice little town that feels really safe and we found a good little hostel where ...

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... all our questions in a nurturing atmosphere. Pretty flowers despite the fact it is December. Geni hosted a birthday party for a guest who was visiting. We got to enjoy some of the decorations left from the party. "Is it my birthday yet??" Everyone in Costa Rica has chickens and the Villa Rica is no exception. This makes it easy to have ...

... their heads when I stopped and asked what street corner I was on. It took me two hours of walking around with 50lbs of my life on my back to finally find a place to stay. San Jose has some good room deals, but you have to work hard to find them as there is lots of **** too. I landed in a hostel called Casa Ridgeway which sat amazingly on a dead end street at the East end of town. Cheap, clean, private rooms and close to everything I needed. Many of you ...

... we haven´t had the chance to see much since we arrived....when we landed it was dark, and we haven´t ventured much outside our hotel! But our new found beer is Imperial which is made here in Costa Rica, and dinner was fantastic! Hopefully we can upload some pics tomorrow from Patti´s digital :) More later....Aim