Santa Elena Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Von dort aus und nach einer Seeumrundung der Laguna Arenal haben wir
dann den Nebelwald von Monteverde erreicht. Noch etwas mystischer als
der Regenwald, von Nebelschwaden staendig durchzogen waren es
wunderschoene Wanderungen. Zwar sahen wir kaum Tiere aber dafuer soviel
Gruen...

Last night we hung out with the locals in La Fortuna at a bar called Chelas. We watched a soccer game on the big screen. Costa Rica was playing Mexico. It was a very close game, and unfortunately Costa Rica lost. The local ticos were very enthusiastic. It was so much fun to be around.

This morning we drove from La Fortuna to Santa Elena i...

I had thought that I would skip Costa Rica and just go see Panama, but so many people come here that I had to see what all the fuss was about. The border crossing was insane, as many Nicaraguans were returning to Costa Rica to work after spending the holidays visiting family back home. There were two checkpoints after the border where everyone o...

MONTEVERDE Monteverde is a cloud forest. The canopy is the many trees that shelter the plants and animals. It is extremely rich with birds, insects, butterflies, and thousands of plants. In Monteverde rain forest are found more than 100 species of mammals including 5 species of cats, 400 species of birds including 30 kinds of hummingbirds, thous...

Park Tour We lucked out on the weather today. It was partly sunny, dry but not too warm, with just the faintest breeze. We planned the tour for the morning in hopes of avoiding the rain, which usually hits in the afternoon this time of year, but we weren't expecting it to be this nice. Our guide told us that, up here in the Monteverde rainforest...

Il vulcano di Arenal è nella top ten dei vulcani più attivi al mondo. Sebbene era sempre nuvoloso si intraveda un costante fumo attorno alla punta. Data la sua grande attività non è possibile avvicinarsi più di tanto, si può camminare fino alla zona dove ha avuto l'ultima eruzione nel 1992 ma non oltre perchè in continuazione "sputa" enormi sass...

Once we arrived in Monteverde (well, actually the village of Santa Elena) we checked into the Pension Colibri. Colibri means hummingbird. Our accommodation was run by a nice family and was located off the main street down a lane. The room was very pleasant but covered in frills. The curtains and bedspread were frilly and the towels had been fold...

Santa Elena There are two towns that service the famous Costa Rican mountain cloud forest reserve of Monteverde. We stayed at Santa Elena. Costa Rica owes an enormous debt to quakers who fled the perceived militarism of the United States in the 1950s to settle in Costa Rica, which had recently abolished its armed forces. The quakers protected th...

Today it bucketed with rain in the morning so I had a nice quiet morning in my schwanky apartment (have I bragged about it yet?) playing Sudoku, drinking tea and doing a bit of studying. This morning as I lounged in my gorgeous sunken tub, I noticed a huge bug on my window. It was literally about 3 inches long and looked like a big leaf. Kind of...

Santa Elena is a beautiful little town in the highlands of Costa Rica, not far from the Monteverde reserve, which is the most popular place in Costa Rica to do a famous çanopy tour', flying through the rainforest canopy on zip-lines, like giant flying foxes. It took all day and three buses to get there from Manuel Antonio on a road that was at t...