Hotel Portobello Puntarenas

... It was a teary good bye for me. It<br>is so easy to fall back into the comfort zone that you have with good<br>friends. Sometimes its hard to say goodbye. The redemption is that best<br>friends will always be best friends. No matter where you go or for how<br>long you are gone, your friends will be there when you get back. That<br>is really nice to know.<br><br><br><br>THanks so much K&amp;N for coming out to see me. I'll always remember that very special week in this long adventure! xo.

June 30<br><br>Today was another beautiful and relaxing day filled with tons of Spanish speaking and bicycle riding along the beach and around Puntarenas. Around 7:00 in the morning, I went for a run on the beach. Everything around me was completely captivating. I saw a few locals running along the beach but not many. After the run I came back and enjoyed another delicious breakfast of gallo pintos (beans and rice) and eggs w ...

... best available location People love buses. In the province of San Jose everyone stared as our bus went by. Everyone. In the rest of the country everyone stops and waves. There are 7 provinces. We visited all of them on this trip. The province of Limon is the poorest. It is on the Caribbean coast where Tortuguero is. Arenal Lake is the largest lake in the country. It is man made. Wind turbine energy is a new source of power in the ...

Na plaz Montezuma jsme nejprve jeli busem, pak prestoupili na velkou lod a pak opet busem po prasne ceste. Je zajimave, jak je tady levna doprava ve srovnani s jinymi produkty - treba pivem. Cesta klimatizovanou lodi s barem a televizi za 1,5 hodiny stoji v prepoctu 1,5 USD, zatimco pivo stoji ...

Earthquake at Vocan Poas near Alajuela, Costa Rica today . I could feel it during my afternoon nap here in Punterenas. What's strange that I was sleeping in this same hostel in '05 and an earthquake tremor almost rolled me out of bed. I had been sleeping on a sail boat a few months before and I said to myself, "Boy, it's windy tonight". A week later the Tsunami hit Thailand. This quake did damage in the Poas neighborhood and in Alajuela.

... is virtually the Bronx, just check out all the white picket fences!), but I am a hard ass, anyway, this place was sooooo not scary AT ALL! Completely over-rated in the scary department. Anyway waiting to get on the bus the girl in line behind me asks if I speak English. Yes I answer, we chat for some time and she asks where I'm from, and i proudly beam "Australia", the Green and Gold virtually oozing out of the three syllables I wait for the standard "oh that must be so ...

... to dance to five songs for us and the final song was the broom dance that needed some of us to participate, and I was chosen. We then purchased a magnet and a mini ox cart from them. We were allowed to visit the local church on-site, and we were told that the front of the church built in 1517 was the only part that survived the many earthquakes throughout the years. We then got to drive through the town to a market area that had views of our ...

... Byen er liten og er bebodd av sig0ynere og hippier som selger sine varer til alle amerikanerne og surfeturistene som velger montezuma som sitt sted aa eksistere et par uker i vinterkulda. Det er dyrt og vi har sett og gjort alt som er aa gj0re her, saa vi drar nok videre i morgen, har ikke bestemt oss for hvor, men frister med den karibiske kysten :)

... we saw some hand written signs in Hebrew at the hostel/tourist info center and then this guy comes out and asks us where we´re from. When we tell him Israel, he immediately starts talking to us in Hebrew and between his welcome and the signs in Hebrew telling us to go here, we decide to do it. Paying $5 per person per night for a nice bed and hot showers wasn´t too bad either. Tonight we did something different - a night tour in the cloud forest, with a guide ...

... the volcano. It was a much more entertaining method of travel than the bus, thats for sure. We arrived in Monteverede in the early afternoon. The town is perched on a mountain ridge overlooking the Gulf of Nicoya and the Pacific. The views were stunning. That evening, we took a night hike and encountered some of the most interesting wildlife yet, particularly of the insect variety. We saw several leaf-imitating katydids (green and brown ...