La Casa De las Flores Hotel Cahuita

... we all grow to fear. My please for peace ignored I took up my battle stance. Torch positioned in mouth to allow optimum chance of creating a mosquito palm sandwich, I waited with baited breath. The battle cries of hand to hand clapping breaking the silence of the night.<br><br>After a brave and heroic fight I was defeated, my palms sore, my jaw aching and my eyes heavy from tiredness I waved my white ...

... instigated by the media. But I still had have been feeling dizzy, weak and all my joints and muscles have been very sore, so I took it easy that day as well, having just a few drinks with some of the other guys at the hostel, while Milli slept. Yesterday we left San Jose for Cahuita, on the Caribbean coast, known for its hippy laid back vibe and afro Caribbean community, possible due to the fact that all the locals are immigrants from the Caribbean, Jamaica ...

... learned over the past day that things SLOW DOWN as it is a "chill out", "no problem man" kind of pace. I began to think, "why rush?" The ocean, the beach, the beauty that surrounds the area all come together and makes you want to just sit, watch and listen. The evening ended to the sounds of waves crashing on the beach, tropical warmth and the sounds of bugs that sing, talk and fill the night with music. I find myself sitting, simply ...

... There's a reef offshore and a national park in walking distance. What more could one want? What's that? An Italian-Caribbean restaurant?? They have that too!! I haven't looked round too much but what I have seen, I like a lot. I may stay here for a few days.... With regards to the photos, I tried to upload some today but the computer does not have the software and I can't download it onto someone else's computer. But I shall keep trying! Take care, all and feel free to contact me!

... morning I was up at 6:00 to have breakfast, get ready for my Sloth Sanctuary tour and to try to find a phone. I found out that our US phone cards don't work in CR, so I asked around until someone told me where to buy a CR phone card. I picked one up at the market and went to find a phone. There are 5 public phones in Cahuita and 4 of them are dead. One of them was working, but had such bad static, I couldn't hear a thing. It was gettng ...

... too much else to do around the house - lay in hammocks, read, and play cards. There's a bar at the entrance to the park, but walking for over an hour round trip is not really worth a beer. Some other interesting things I've seen are scorpions, eyelash vipers (deadly snakes - you have 3 hours to live if you get bitten. But there's a clinic 20 mins away from the project that has the anti-venom), iguanas, and those "Jesus Christ" lizards that can run on top of water on two legs ...

... la nuit fue très longue. On a laissé les affaires pour rejoindre les amis de Patricia à Punta Cahuita....je me suis retrouvée entourée par 8 espagnols....2 mois au Costa Rica ne m´a pas préparé pour des discussions qui passaient super rapide....ils parlent 10 fois plus vite que les locaux...neanmoins, c´était une bonne exercise pour moi. Au retour au centre de Cahuita, un bateau nous a approché à la plage...c´était là où j´ai témoigné comment les espagnols ...

... not quite, it barely even wipes ass it is so thin. I have to fold up about 10 sheets to get something thick enough that my finger won't poke through. Plus, it is brown. How can I tell when my ass is clean? In an unrelated thought, similar to the 2008 Chicken Little of global warming (article arguing that some 2008 events suggest global cooling) having replaced the Chicken Little of the 1970s of a New Ice Age (Wiki re ...

... the fact that we come from very different places. My research also taught me that the Black Caribbeans were discriminated against (they could not become citizens, even if they were born in Costa Rica, were prohibited from getting jobs, prohibited from teaching English to their children, among other things) until about 1948, which was the year of Costa Rica's Civil War. After a few hours at the beach, we headed to Puerto Viejo for lunch at a ...

... shaman ganska nära där vi bor. Han är typ indian, kommer från Bri Bri stammen. Bri Bri är en grupp av urbefolkningen. Har varit där 2 ggr med tjejerna och idag ensam. Han fixade några örter till mig, någon typ av rot. Ska koka upp det idag. Vi kanske ska fira fullmånen med honom nästa vecka, jag och Taoin. Ska bli väldigt intressant....ritualer och annat. Det blir allt för denna gång, måste gå!! Mycket kärlek Jenny