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New Years Day
Happy New Year!
We woke up at 6:30am on Tuesday morning to hear the rain pummeling the roof of our little villa and wondered how the rain would affect our plans for ziplining which we had booked for 9am? Perhaps it's just a passing storm and will clear/burn-off before 9am? By 8:15 it was still pouring, and Luis (the kindly hotel manager) …
Out of Control
Hopefully you had a great Christmas and received a visit from Santa or at least somebody bearing gifts? Christmas Day brought an exciting announcement for the Middle family ….Steve (Sarah's younger brother) and Louise announced their engagement – Congratulations to them both and we look forward to celebrating with them in the summer.
Cloud bursting
... From one of the road bridges you can take a path down to the river, where on sunnier days there’s a tarzan swing in the swiftly flowing river. We opted to instead wander the paths and farmland around the river, with the aim to follow the flow until we got to a converging river that would lead us back to the road. We wandered around for a bit, got our shoes wet in the soggy grass, and got into forest and wetlands that in the end became impassable. So, content with our slight ...
Rafting and Rappelling in the Rain
... and paddles. Of course we were chosen to be the example for the rest of the group to act out the different commands we would be told along the river.
After our quick tutorial, we hopped into 4 different boats each with about 4 people and 1 guide. We think that we were considered weaklings (they must not realize how much yoga we do) and so were put with 2 other girls who were native Costa Ricans and 2 guides. We seemed to avoid ...
Cloud forest to finish Costa Rica
... kde jsme videli podobnou vegetaci, mechem porostle stromy. Cela oblast Monteverde je v kopcich a tak i klima tu bylo o neco chladnejsi, coz byla hezka zmena jak pro denni chozeni tak pro spani. Jednou vyhodou tech turistu tady bylo, ze se vsichni orientuji spise na atrakce a tak se nam postestilo a v tom lese jsme cely den byli sami. Bohuzel jsme ale nevideli o nic vice zviratek, jen par druhu ptaku a to diky dalekohledu, ktery se osvedcil jako nejlepsi koupe co se ...
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