Presidente Hotel San Jose

... tortugas komen aan land op een verderop gelegen strand de vijf nachten vóór volle maan. Op dit strand komen er per nacht germiddeld een stuk of tien....volle maan of niet. Op het andere grote strand is het moeilijker om een tour te boeken. <br>De tortuga´s (schildpadden) zijn onder te verdelen in drie groepen...parrots (met een kop als een papagaai.....leatherbacks welke wel 400 kilo zwaar zijn en de soorten welke wij gezien hebben (door het enthousiasme even de naam vergeten) waren een ...

... beans. Apparently I did not get the memo that traditional Costa Rican food is no longer acceptable. KFC, McDonald&#8217;s, Taco Bell, Pizza hut, Subway and something called RostiPost are all the rave. They have taken over every street corner and food court. When I have had traditional Costa Rican food somewhere out (not when Catalina cooks it) it has been&#8230;umm&#8230;well&#8230;not great.<br><br>5. I never need to return to the discotec<br ...

For breakfast we had scrambled eggs, a really yummy bread, and fresh fruit.  I tried 'Lizano,' a sauce Ticos put on EVERYTHING but I didn't care much for it.  I then had class again today at 8. Today I'm beginning to think that the class I'm in is too easy-even having not taken a productive spanish class in 2 years-which says a lot.  I'm going to try to move up to the next level ...

... is very calm and laid back. Very different than the States, or at least different than the East Coast. No one is rushed, it is a very different feel here, but it&#8217;s nice for a change. <br><br>Yesterday was our last day of class when I handed in my final paper on child soldiers in El Salvador and Colombia. Today we went on our last trip as a group to a volcano called Irazu. There was so much fog that if you walked twenty feet or so away from the ...

... restaurant was closed, and between the awful map and the lack of signage on the roads, we weren't sure we were on the right road to circle around back to San Salvador, so we ended up driving right back up the mountain and retracing our steps back to Fabrizio's house (except the detour to the end of the city this time). Just below the top we stopped for pupusas at Comedor Pupuseria Amanda, which was not much more than a couple tables in front of gas-fired griddle. Amanda prepared several ...

... We drove down through Libertad and stopped at bought some groceries and got some US cash from a cash machine (they use Federal Reserve Notes as if it were money there, too)  The prices are amazing - lunch plate of chicken, rice and beans and a drink costed us only $2.50 each.  A pound of hamburger is about $1.05.   A glass bottle of Pepsi is $0.35 and a 1.25 liter of cola is $0.70.  In so many ways, El Salvadore is like a ...

... for. So after our lovely boat trip out of Monterrico we found ourselves on a bus to the Salvador boarder. In our peripherals a man is standing on the front of the bus staring at us. Not looking......"¿Hey where you from?" Sinking heart, ........."England" silence. Sitting down next to us whilst the bus gets moving, a 15 minute monolog of his admittedly slightly interesting but potentially fabricated life from birth to present day commences. Every so often ...

... Oh no, oh ****, it´s ten o´clock, we´ve missed the bus!" and after a brief moment where I believed her, I did the maths and worked out we would have had to have slept for fourteen hours solid for that to be the case. It was in fact 10pm and we´d been asleep for two hours, not fourteen, and hadn´t missed the bus! By 10AM! we were 5 hours into the next part of the journey!

... nightclubs. Oh, *nd stores too. All of which *re completely Americ*nized, including * lot outright Americ*n ch*ins like Ben****ns, 9 West, *nd P*p* Johns. If it were not for me not seeing *nother p*lef*ce, I would h*ve thought I w*s *t the [insert Americ*n m*ll n*me here]. The contr*st w*s when I w*lked *round the old city center, which w*s like w*lking *round * 100-squ*re block fle* m*rket, but with more bootleg CDs, videos, pupus*s, *nd guys ...