Province of Guanacaste Ranches - Reviews and Rates

Soggy Peanut Butter Sandwiches and Rainforests

Costa Rica - Soggy Peanut Butter Sandwiches and Rain Forest THINGS WE LEARNED: The 9:30 am bus leaves at 11:45 am. INTERESTING FACT: When Arenal Volcano violently erupted on the morning of July 29, 1968, it spewed ash, rocks and gas for 3 consecutive days. When the smoke cleared, the villages of Tabacon, Pueblo Nuevo, and San Luis were buried un...

Day 2, December 12, 2008

Trip to La Fortuna, Near Arenal We met our kids at the airport, Kristen and her husband, Kevin. We had arranged by email with the hotel we would be staying at to arrange a shuttle to take us to La Fortuna. (I had lots of anxiety about if they would show up and pictured us stuck in San Jose hitchhiking or going in the wrong taxi to some deserted...

The Return Route - Vulcan Arenal, Costa Rica

Ok...Jess here, and yes, laying eyes on the Panama Canal was a dream come true...it was hard to fathom that a year-and-half ago this was just another half-baked hair-brained scheme, and it's not about the canal per se (we've all seen massive man-made structures like the Golden Gate Bridge or the Panama Canal)...it's the simple fact that we were ...

Reservations cancelled

Our travels from Tortuguero to La Fortuna went quite smoothly. We paid the extra bit of money to get a minivan to take us into town from the boat rather than public transit. We saved ourselves a lot of time. Unfortunately we arrived to some bad news... our reservations (that Karen and Brandi made the day before) had been given away. It sounds li...

Day 1, 2 and 3

Day One Sunday we let for Nashville early in the morning. We waited around in the airport for a little bit before going through security, with less than 45 minutes to go through the line was much longer than we though. We began to think that we would miss our flight because it was taking so long. And Lauren was detained because of the amount of ...

Monteverde to Arenal Volcano

We woke up early again yesterday (Thursday 17 Jan) and drove to the far side of Monteverde to take a coffee tour at the Don Juan Coffee Plantation. It was a fantastic, informative, fun tour of a real working coffee plantation. Once again, our guide seemed to really love his job and was very proud of the coffee plantation and Costa Rica´s histor...

Day 6 - morning alone & Baldi hotsprings

Dylan's spelunking Dani's pedi Crocodiles, Lizards & Ants oh my! Night at the hotsprings with volcano tour

Day 5 - Travel Day to La Fortuna

Missing out on rafting trip Nice room... with television Hike to Waterfall Wonderful Steak Dinner Introduction to Guaro

Another volcano (and a sloth)

La Fortuna La Fortuna used to be a small farming town. Now it is a small tourist centre of about 10,000 people. It lies at the foot of the extremely steep volcan Arenal, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and the reason for the town's name. Arenal woke form a many millenia slumber in 1968 and destroyed two villages to the west of it....

Arenal/Monteverde

Costa Rica is apparently the most stable of the Central American nations and as a result has by far the most developed tourism industry. The people appear to be extremely friendly and helpful, welcoming to tourists, although the one downside (if it can be called that) is that activities are more expensive here than elsewhere in the region. Its a...