Hotel Rincon de San Jose

... the journey at Puerto Viejo de Talamanca. The countryside is beautiful in Costa Rica, wide and fast flowing rivers, dense vegetation, and fields and fields of pina, banana and sugar cane, which they export to the US and Europe. Costa Rica is definitely richer than its northern neighbours and this is evidenced by the fact that I saw someone mowing a field on a ride-on mower and not using a machete. Also the people look more western, they are taller ...

Depois de 7 dias em San Juan del Sur chegou a hora de seguir viagem outra vez.
Sai do hotel as 10:00 da manha. A viagem ate a fronteira com Costa Rica levou 45 minutos. Ja tinha em mente que seria demorada a travessia porque estava saindo de Nicaragua ( que e
integrante dos 4 paises latinos: Guatemala, El Salvador e Honduras) onde ha uma burocracia imensa e o mesmo pela entrada a Costa Rica. Resolvi contratar um ...

... co.uk/ , a small travel agency specialising in destinations to Latin America and the Caribbean. They were able to tailor make our itinerary and offer advice and suggestions. They were also very reasonable. We booked the flight ourselves using http://www.travelsupermarket.com/ and ended up getting a flight for about £600 with Delta airlines from Gatwick changing in Atlanta, Georgia. The only downside was the ...

... here are very often stray and just do whatever they want. I don’t feel very comfortable with that because they just follow and I don’t know whose they are or where they come from…maybe they have a disease, I don’t know…so I get annoyed when they follow us and try to get close to us. When we got back to our hotel, we were able to see the volcano from our porches so we watched for a few minutes then went inside. My friend and I watched a ...

... big surprise) in a tree. That night after dinner, when going back to the room, we noticed that part of the sky was being lit up in the distance. I went for a close look, and it was a huge lightning storm, it was so beautiful, I have really great pics of it lighting up the sky and the lake I was standing in front of at the time. The following morning we left for La Fortuna, a tourist town close to Volcan Arenal, one of the top 10 most active volcanos in the world. We booked ...

Sunday March 8 Today I went on a canopy tour by Osa Canopy Tours. It was terrific! We left early this morning and drove south until we got to the town of Cortes. A Kia truck picked us up and drove us up to the start of the zip lines. I wore a heavy harness, (it had lots of straps and buckles) and a thick helmet. The first zip line was super long, 475 metres! It was very high up over a canyon. I was blown away! I mean it was windy because I was going so ...

... before themselves. It was really nice to see how ready and willing to share they were. There were more than enough clothes for all the kids, especially the small ones. The smallest one ...

... pig. He was so tame, he would just crash at your feet and wait for you the pat him, sooooo funny! Then Saturday we did a "four in one" tour - a coffee plantation (as you can imagine i was in heaven!), a volcano (with green lava!), a beautiful waterfall and a wildlife sanctuary. loads of fun, although I clearly am even more unfit than i had thought as i was huffing and puffing by the end of the waterfall walk. Sunday a friend and I went to a beautiful province of Costa ...

... tonight. Did I mention I could also smell San Jose. THe good thing is I found 19 stations that have American hows with Spanish subtitles - great for me. I just found CBS, NBC and ABC. San Jose at least coming in seemed dirty, but is hard because it was raining. It is cool right now in my room though. I think it was 72 degrees - but definitly cooler now. Well I think I'm done for now. I need to rest. I am in for an adventure.