Hotel El Sueno Santa Elena
Santa Elena Center, next to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve Santa Elena, Province of Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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Hiking in the Rain
This weekend I took a 4/5 hour bus ride to visit the Cloud Forest Reserve in MonteVerde. The bus ride was an adventure in itself going up the side of the mountain on a barely-there road praying the bus driver had done this once before. I had done some research on where to stay once i got there, but have learned not to make reservations as you will …
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... it was amazing! It was so much fun to try and join him in standing up on the rock- he kept pulling me up but the current just kept taking me! When I eventually stood up, the current took me under by whipping my knees/legs haha so much fun! Later on, I managed to stand up on the rock by myself, but was fighting the current so much that I got cramp again, this time in my foot! The current took me as my foot started cramping, and the ...
Oh, 'n Froschn! Mit Milchkaffe...
... dass hier ein Schweizer namens Dubach als Lehrmeister gewirkt hatte.
Die Kaeserei erinnerte uns stark an eine typische Schweizer Dorfchaesi. Das System der Genossenschaft ist einfach und effektiv: Jede Milchanlieferung wird im Labor kurz untersucht, zuviele Bakterien oder Spuren von Hormonen in der Milch fuehren zur Rueckweisung. Je nach Fettgehalt gibts noch etwas obendrauf und wer schlechte Milch in ...
Walking is the bees knees!
... card! Plus, the envelopes the come with are made of 100% coffee plant!
If you don't walk up the hill you may also miss a super awesome view of the pacific gulf!!!
Ok, I have to get up tomorrow at 3am to catch the 4 20am bus to puntarenas, get off at the freeway, little place called irma, catch an expensive transnica bus accross the boarder and head to isla ometepe! pura vida!
p.s. I took a cold shower with a tarantula today...
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Adrenaline, amphibians and 5* chill-axing
... t sure whether I'd like it, me hating rollercoasters with a passion and all, but it was AWESOME fun! You just had to forget about the fact that if the cable broke you'd be dead, then it was wwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeee e all the way ;-) We did 12 runs, and for the last one I opted to get harnessed in "Superman-style" (rather than seated upright) so I literally flew out over the valley for the 1km back to base. Scariest part is that you can't break ...


