Hotel el Prado Alajuela
La Garita Alajuela, Province of Alajuela, Costa Rica
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Frolicking In the Rain
... The area was super crowded so that if you stopped walking you might get run over. We finally found a seat to wait by our gate where I proceeded to people watch. Which, by the way, is a gazillion times better than just regular people watching anywhere else. There was a guy walking around with his laptop open in hand, ear buds in his ears, rolling luggage in the other hand skyping with someone. I'm fairly certain there's an app for that. ...
Alex vs the Volcano
... were done we all walked a little farther down to one of the lower pools and fed bread crumbs to the fish that live there. Juan said that they are very tasty, but that they have really small bones and are difficult to fillet. Someone else said that they fry them at high heat and get the bones crunchy enough to eat them whole, kind of like soft-shell crabs.
Juan said it was time to get going so that we could stay on time to get to the ...
Day 7
... and beans. To be honest it feels as if we are not at a University but more like a fancy resort, just missing the spa and massage parlor. Today has been pretty uneventful as we had a small hike this morning where we found a Mexican Red-Kneed Tarantula. We also saw several beautiful butterflies and birds. Then we went back to listen to a bird speech, followed by a short plant morphology lesson and activity. That was ...
Cloud Forest Adventure
... vandfald, lidt laengere nede i dalen. Det var virkelig smukt, og vi glaeder og meget til at se flere vandfald.
I morgen tager vi ud paa en kaffe farm, hvor vi bl.a. skal hjaelpe med hoesten, og bearbejdningen af kaffen - samt laere en masse om kvaliteten. Derefter tager vi med jeep - boat - jeep til La Fortuna, hvor vi som sagt skal bestige vulkanen.
Saa vi oplever nok - og bruger ogsaa nok penge, selv om priserne sagtens kunne vaere hoejere.
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Coffee, Toucans and Cockroaches!
... they were so fast that by the time I pressed the shutter button they would be gone. The humingbirds were the best part...one of them flew right into my leg and you can hear their wings beating as they zipped past your head. They ranged in colur and size.
Aman loved the Toucans (they were pure Fruit Loops!) We saw green ones and black ones and their beaks were so colourful. He tried to flutter his arms like CoCo B ...


