Pueblo Dorado Tamarindo

... high. Pretty soon, we were going to have to leave, unless a turtle showed up in the next few minutes.<br><br>Sadly, 4 am found us shuffling back to the boat, crossing the river, and going home exhausted, soaking wet, and absolutely turtle-free. <br><br>John and I had planned to leave the next day, but we couldn't give up that easily on the turtles. So, we decided that we would go ahead and spend one more day relaxing on the beach and soaking up sun ...

... along the way. But waves were big, winds offshore, sunny and water blue! We unload and head down to the crazy tree to paddle in, luckily there people in the line up were other beginners. But the waves started picking up and literally there were people getting barreled!! I was freaking out happy and stoked! I paddled out behind the break and just watched for bit, it was surreal, I had some trouble at first but was determined to get my picture taken, I missed a few waves I should ...

... bye, cows and horses, its like the old west! Well I tell Mike not to get too close to side of road and he totally bites it on this little hill and slides down it...scuffs up the side of his leg! Rookies. And we have to get up to surf at 6am. Overall a fun time, I can't compare it to last year and I stayed relatively aware and lead the crew back home safely.<br>Today as I write this as I mentioned earlier, there are no waves, I have been up ...

... in kind of late so after we checked into our hotel we decided to go on a mini pub crawl and try to hit as many bars as we could. The scene there is very interesting, you´ve got your affluent european and canadien 19-23 year olds attending the spanish university, the dreaded (older, loud, drunk, and annoying) american ...

First night out in Costa Rica. Good time. Cute bearded New Zealander-born, Aussie-raised, UK now in France-living surfer helped make it a fun night. Too bad Michael has a gf back in Denmark (and you guys think you cant keep up with me!!?!) but it was an enjoyable night of flirting and dancing. Saw him twice today and just chatted away. Like that kind of interaction because of the hostels. I can do without ...

We left early and caught the boat back to San Carlos. From here we catch another boat up the Rio Frio to the Costa Rican border at Los Chiles. On the way all the passengers were forced to don life vest but only when we pasted a military post on the river. The trip took about an hour and a half and we arrived at Costa Rican immigration at 11.45am. The sign said it was closed from 12 to 1330 but guess what, they had already gone to lunch. We ...

... cities I have been to that many people say to avoid (Mexico City , Guatemala City , Tegucigalpa and Managua) this is the one that I find myself in agreement ... avoid it and you wont miss much. Finally , Leon in the North was mainly memorable for its number of colonial churches and the references to the 1979 revolution , being the place where Nicaragua´s politics &amp; recent history was most in evidence (naturally not ...

... to drift right to edge and at times our quarry was less than five meters away, although often hard to see clearly. There were some very young ones in this group, and we had a great view of one little one following its mother along a branch back into the vine. This is about the best view that you could reasonably expect to find anywhere I think. But we had to move on. We didn't get far before Nancy spotted some more monkeys in the trees, which this time turned ...

... one other girl the student's that have been hear the longest. She is majoring in Spanish, and I am ranked (not that we are ranked) 2nd behind her in the classes. Tuesday I am taking a bus for an hour 50 min to Santa Cruz to play 5 on 5 b-ball, Going to be rusty. Missing everyone and I feel like I'm starting to loose touch with some people, but I am having good time and am really sore from surfing so much (which is a good thing). Not to mention I can actually speak a little Spanish!

... all that was missing, was a chicken on my lap, as there were cartons of nails behind my head and people piled in all around us. Much to my astonishment, the driver remembered our luggage and where we wanted to get off, and whoops, there we were, at the foothills of te volcano. For a brief moment, i was actually relieved to be walking up hill with all my gear, until getting to the entrance of the park and being told that there were exoberrant ...