Villas Del Caribe Beach Hotel Puerto Viejo

... Moments like that when you are just living free, going with your feelings and just doing whatever you want at the spur of the moment are the best times. And since Puerto, I have been thinking about it and what could have been. Spending a month with someone like that in Belize and Guatemala would be surreal.<br>Anyway, I didnt go, and I didnt managed to talk Carly into coming to Panama with me, so we said goodbye. She is going to try to come meet up with me in ...

... br><br>Over the coffee, I decided that I would take the public bus 25 km north to Cahuita, where I would find the only sloth rescue anywhere in the world. So I headed back to my room down the block, got my camera rain gear cuz it was looking like rain - and made my way to the MEPE ("Mep-ay") ticket office. I purchased my ticket for 700c (about $1.50US) and asked in broken spanglish where the bus stop was located. After a few hand gestures, smiles ...

... how everything can change in just one day. And at same time, these disasters bring us closer together as a community. The Bank of Costa Rica, along with channel 6 and other radio stations started a campaign to ...

... the real meaning of the Tico's (Costa Rican people) common saying "Pura Vida"; they use that phrase to say 'beautiful', 'ok', 'perfect' and 'I like'. To me, it means that I have tried to do, to the best of my ability, something I never think to do at home: to become a volunteer, to share with people from different parts of the world ...

... I started thrashing around below. I followed one fish that was almost two feet from nose to tail all the way around the reef before I ran out of oxygen. The water pressure hurt my ears, but it was worth it; the opacity of the water made every foot count. We stopped on a tiny beach at the end of a peninsula in Punta Cahuita National Park, and Joseph cut up some pineapple and opened a package of cookies for us. The water there was clear and warm, and there ...

... of the girls were asking me what we do for our independence day. I felt so lame. No, we don't have people dressing up in traditional attire. (What is traditional attire for us, anyway? Pilgrim hats?) Some people wear the colors of our flag, but that's it. No, we don't have weeklong parties hosted by beauty queens; just half off on mattresses at wholesale furniture stores. We do have fireworks, I told them. And lots of people go to baseball games, or the beach ...

... dancefloor with our European dance moves! Despite our late night we had to be up early on Sunday for the trip we had booked to see an indinginous Costa Rican tribe. First stop was at an iguana farm where a lady showed us the several stages of iguana breeding, an animal that has been brought back from the verge of extinction. The lady also took us around the surrounding forest, showing us all the different plants and how they make use of ...

... so that they can determine the quality of the water in their rivers independantly. This will help them realise the impact of their activities on the water and to participate more actively in the improving or maintaining the water quality. Après 3 semaines de voyage, nous sommes enfin arrivés à ma nouvelle installation à Hone Creek : un petit village au milleu de nullpart, mais à la fois seulement 5 km de Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, un autre village très ...

... than we had expected. Next day (16th) we went for a walk in the National Park, which is about a 2 minute walk from the village. They work on a donation system here, so at least we didn´t have to pay the $6 US we had read in the book. We made our donation and went on our way. It was amazing, the first views of the Caribbean sea and the white candy beaches, but with no hotels or bars or people trying to sell you ...

... coast were not allowed to travel inland through the Central Valley until 1948. Columbus arrived nearby. Cahuita was only declared a town in 2005. The town only received electricity in the 1980s and we suffered a few blackouts when we were here! Mostly we laid back here, but we did visit the impressive Cahuita National Park. With a donation of just a dollar each, we set off on a 8.5km trek through the forest, which pretty much ...