Pension Alajuela
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First impressions of Costa Rica
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 …
Shopping, black sand beach
... the 4 hours early this morning stopped by to have breakfast with his family. He hadn't seen them in about a month, so it was great that he got to take a well-deserved break (even for a few hours) from work for himself. He was even more of a Superman than usual because he brought us our copy of our rafting & rappelling photos that I had managed to lose already.
The trip from Puerto Viejo was really easy. Thankfully no rain, and traffic was light. On the way out of ...
Living the good life with good friends
... the net without a struggle, saying "Tranquilo, tranquilo linda" (calm, calm, beautiful). After the toucan nailed the researcher with a few bites to his finger, he asks me if I want to hold it. Well yes, yes I do!! Thankfully the toucan was calm with me and never bit, and I felt incredibly lucky and thankful to have such intimate contact with this beautiful jungle bird.
Life here just keeps surprising me. A few days after the toucan experience, I walked ...
Potholes, Waterfalls, and Chiquita Banana
... Ryan Reynolds in it called "The Change-Up". When we left the mall we had to pay for the parking at a booth before we went back to the car. Luckily we noticed that before we ran through the rain to get back to the car.
We headed back to the hotel so we could look up a place to eat dinner and hike around the hotels and see the waterfalls. It was still raining out so we put our rain jackets on and grabbed walking sticks from the office to ...
Pura Vida! :-)
... sonst wo immer moeglich ein... Wir versuchten uns im Surfen (man muss ja cool sein), wurden fast ausgeraubt (zwei Jungs verfolgten uns in der Nacht), badeten in einem natuerlichen Pool im Hostel (Mangrovenbucht) und beobachteten wilde Tiere der Kueste entlang (Faultiere, Affen, Waschbaeren, Tukane, Papageien, Spinnen, Krebse, ...).
Nach Manzanillo fuhren wir vor allem aus einem Grund: wir ...
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