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Pension Alajuela

Alajuela, Province of Alajuela, Costa Rica

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First impressions of Costa Rica

A travel blog entry by clandybar

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We arrived at the San Jose airport in Costa Rica quite early on October 2nd. Our flight from Mexico City to San Jose with TACA was excellent. We took a taxi from the airport to Pension Alajuela, which was just a short 5 minute drive away. This hostel was basic but clean and secure. We relaxed for most of the first day and later booked a tour for …

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Costa Rica Mission Trip 2011

A travel blog entry by stevensfamily

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Friday, July 29:






  • We wake up and have breakfast and then load the bus for La Fortuna.



  • Our drive to La Fortuna takes us through several towns and spectacular mountainous scenery.


  • We arrive at Arenal Paraiso Resort and Spa to zipline on 12 platforms with cables over 350 meters long and 80 meters high.The resort is located in the Northern ...

Day 3... 7/11/11

A travel blog entry by calinedaun23

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... ping pong and it's getting quite competitive. For lunch, we went to a little restaurant we found randomly. It was sooo cheap! We got a fresh blackberry juice with salad, soup, pasta, and a dessert all for less than $6. (the exchange rate is 500 colones to $1).

We've already adapted to Costa Rican time. Class started at 1 and we arrived at 1:15 and we were still early. This afternoon's class was all about medical spanish. Our topics included el corazon (heart), los pulmones (lungs), ...

Volcanos and Coffee

A travel blog entry by edpass

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... in the shopping area, although we did get 8 pounds of coffee which they shipped free to Nova Scotia, and carried away odds and ends of chocolate coffee flavoured goodies.

On our way back to our hotel that afternoon, San Jose proved to be fairly cosmopolitan, with modern cinemas, fitness centres, restaurants for all tastes and traffic jams. Most motorcycles we have seen are small, around 200cc. ...

Week 10

A travel blog entry by jiji.guillaume

... stamps our tickets allowing us to enter Wayna Picchu at 10pm. We were really lucky since he stopped stamping shortly after us. We finally made it up, our tickets are stamped and the archeological site lies meters away ...