Tioga Hotel Puntarenas
Paseo de los Turistas Puntarenas, Province of Puntarenas, 5400, Costa Rica
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... environment.
We made our way to the football pitch and played a match with a couple of the local lads and some of them were really good! Lots of fun playing footie in the heat on the local pitch which was too dry for any grass to grow through. Amazing!
We then made our daily trip to the River, and the current was pretty strong and Andre was managing to stand on a rock underwater, just fighting the current and ...
Corriendo a la playa - Running on the beach
... ourselves near a water stand staffed by Crystal where they had maybe 15 people giving out bags and bags of water to the participants.
The race began at 4 pm when the tide was almost dead low so there was plenty of wet/solid sand to run on although there were folks running in the water. Traditionally, the race was run barefoot but most were wearing running shoes. Some runners were barefoot and quite a number of walkers were not wearing shoes.
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Let's Get Sandy!!
... t get back to sleep. Therefore, Anna and I headed outside for a walk around the town. She was taking a bunch of random pictures and capturing the different parts of Puntarenas that people typically don't pay attention to. We walked around some abandoned/mistreated areas, which were probably hotspots in Puntarenas years ago. It was interesting and depressing at the same time. I wish people would treat the areas in which they live with ...
Prospero Ano Nuevo!
... making Kombucha tea, drying bananas, and propagating all kinds of veggies. Besides the coffee and bananas, each volunteer who comes through is responsible for digging and planting their own beds. So, we are eating from beds that the volunteers before us planted, and in the future volunteers will be eating from the beds we are making now. Note to future volunteers-hope you like tomatoes!
Living in a cabina with ...
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
... of collectables hanging from tree limbs that were swept away with everything else. Sometimes we thought we saw a bird, but actually it was a plastic bag. Now we know why we should ban plastic bags. Our ship has gone green and asked that we take a bag when going ashore to carry things we buy so we don't bring plastic bags aboard.
We will see what the other side of Costa Rica has to offer.
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