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Pura Vida Hotel Alajuela

1500 metros de la fabrica de Punto Rojo en Alajuela, PO Box 1703-4050 Alajuela, Province of Alajuela, Costa Rica

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Day 11, Sunday, Leaving for Alajuela/San Jose

A travel blog entry by lauriesnym

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Ate a leisurely breakfast at Blue Banyan Inn. We will miss the Inn. It was a favorite of all our residences during our trip. We drove thru the mountains towards San Jose. We also stopped in Jaco. The city of Alajuela has all types of residential areas (picture from blog). We found the rental place where we were to leave our car (Dollar Rental). We …

A Tale of 3 Buses

A travel blog entry by swyla.travel

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Woke up at 7.30, showered, dressed, happy to have our bags and toiletries. Clean clothes are heavenly. There was a brief time that we didn´t think we´d see our bags again, but then at 11.45 pm, right before midnight when I was about to throw in the towel, the man in the van with our bags arrived. Perhaps I´m dwelling on that too much.

Sleepless in La Fortuna

A travel blog entry by swyla.travel

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The Pura Vida hotel is lovely to look at, quaint little rooms with a view of the volcano if it´s not cloudy (as it is right now).

But if you actually want to sleep in the Pura Vida hotel you will find it almost impossible. The trucks roll by at all hours of the night and there is a disco somewhere in …

Fireflies

A travel blog entry by swyla.travel

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After the Internet cafe we mosied back up to our hotel. But onthe way we stopped in a clothing store so I could buy a cheap pair of jeans. $18, amazing. We also stopped for a fajita and fries at a different soda place. We took a short nap when we got back to the hotel, it was still noisy with trucks zooming by. Sigh.

For dinner before our …

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