Tryp Corobici Hotel San Jose

... at the base of the volcano before returning to our hostel.

Thirty minutes later we were picked up for our Sky Trek adventure (the zipline canopy tour). I´m not sure what you think of when you picture a zipline, but I´m pretty sure this isn´t it. Picture taking a tram up to 3000ft above a lake to the top of one mountain ridge. Then picture giant cables stretched out to a totally different ridgeline a half mile ...

... co.uk/ , a small travel agency specialising in destinations to Latin America and the Caribbean. They were able to tailor make our itinerary and offer advice and suggestions. They were also very reasonable. We booked the flight ourselves using http://www.travelsupermarket.com/ and ended up getting a flight for about £600 with Delta airlines from Gatwick changing in Atlanta, Georgia. The only downside was the ...

... to us but he was slow and patient and taught us a lot of stuff about the animals and plants in addition to Costa Rica in general. He wanted to talk about health care system differences and our opinions of things in the country. It was great! We saw all sorts of birds, monkeys, and flowers…we fed toucans and they landed on us and ate right out of our palms. We also went to a butterfly garden and blue morphos were all around us and landed on us too! I even got ...

... it isn’t as big of a deal as the problems with the pineapple plantation. It was a sad story and many of the people showed us their rashes and told us how their families are dying because the doctors won’t help them. Many of the doctors say plantations are not the sources of their problems and that they have allergies and other issues. That situation came up again the next day. (Our other meeting for the day was with SITRAP, a syndicate group for ...

A Day in the Life of a Surfer 8:00 am - Try to catch some waves 9:00 am - Keep trying  10:00 am  - Time for some R&R on a Hammock 12:00 pm - Grab some Pupusas for lunch 1:30pm - Walk around on the beach, maybe grab a break if the wave is good enough. 3:00pm - Hang out with some of my dorm-mates 5:00pm - Grab some more waves before the sun comes down 6:00pm - Fresh Ceviche!! Mmmmm 8:00pm - Join a party on the beach 10:00pm ...

... vista. Heaven............ (hot water and a bath too!) ......... Nadia's smile was was indeed deserving. We had only 2 nights and and three days and could easily have spent a month. In the balmy evenings everyone sat around the square supping Cerveza and eating Pulpas whilst cowboys showed off their horsemanship. Our second day was a surreal affair. The first day of christmas festivities got under way with a brass band ...

... Ah les touristes que nous sommes...... 'T'inquiete Alex, ca aurait pu etre pire... je sais pas moi, tu aurais pu te faire voler qqch de plus important.... ton i-pod par exemple...oups...' Alex n'apprecia pas mon humour et, realisant qu'il venait de se faire piquer un objet de valeur pour la 2eme fois en moins de 10jours, resta muet pendant qques heures, regardant chaque passant comme un criminel potentiel... Ayant coche la case surf, nous decidions alors de ...

... the fish as it were. El Mozote was one such territory, where, in 1982, the army murdered every single man, woman and child who resided there - all of them unarmed civilians. Of course the army denied that any such massacre ever took place, and whilst photos of the corpses appeared in high profile US newspapers (courtesy of two American journalists), the Salvadoran officers claimed that they represented merely a handful of unintentional casualties caused by a firefight with the ...

... a little glass window pane. I grabbed the new board and told the owner I needed togtin the water before I break something else. The board was a dead set weapon. It is a 6´4 but its shaped like a gun. I stayed out fo 2.5 hours and had the funnest surf Ive ever had. With only 3 other surfers out, all goofy footers I had the right to myself and caught a bucketload of waves. I was hooting and claiming almost every wave. I put my board in to get fixed and it ...

... grow quite huge. Luckily I have not gotten any in my hair, but I did knock one out and onto my shoulder. Such fun. But I shrieked much more softly than the howler monkeys.



Hiking through the rainforest has changed our visual skills. The longer we're here, the sharper we see. Today we saw lots of lizards, frogs, spiders, damsel flies, and a group of yellow squirrel monkeys swinging high in the trees. One threw what we thought was a dried fruit at Pauline's head ...