Flamingo Beach Resort Guanacaste Playa Flamingo

... it&#8217;s really good!!) and the last of the Quajado and corn tortillas. <br><br>After lunch Isabella asked us to go back to the pool where we swam up to the bar and ordered some tasty drinks. Isabella has grown quite fond of the swim-up bar and feels like an adult when ordering her orange juice and drinking it right there in the water. I had a great Caipirinha, only instead of them using Cachaca they used Costa Rican Rum (Cacique). Yum! I have to make ...

... is.... <br><br>After breakfast we lounged around and in the pool for a bit and then walked down to the beach and were pleasantly surprised by how beautiful the beach and surroundings were. The water was so warm and inviting and you could walk in for a distance and the water was still only shoulder height. Isabella loved it as she was able to swing like a "big girl" in the ocean, even if it was with the aide of her floaty. We walked ...

... the flight there was no more direct flights (at a decent price anyways). We had a 1 hour layover in El Salvador. That wasn't bad, but once we got to San Jose we STILL had a 4 hour shuttle ride to the coast!! So our trek that began at 5 <br><br>Considering how bad it could've been traveling with a 4 year old, we were really lucky. Isabella was a trouper and behaved like a seasoned traveler (the many games and toys Susie packed for her also helped). Not to ...

... it works! The locals of Playa Flamingo are more aware of what care their animals need than in any other place we have yet to see. They appreciate how wonderful it is to have a healthy happy animal, and they call Dawn if they have any problems or concerns. I have no doubt that these are people who would otherwise not be able to treat their animals, due overwhelmingly to lack of money, but also due to lack of education, differing ...

... it's become a reality! You learn that once you're accustomed to the Way of the Road, you can go anywhere, anytime, through just about any conditions...your patience and appetite for adventure are the only limiting factors (oh yeah, and dinero, but that's more of an exercise of correct prioritization, even if you work at Burger Barn). So that said, we bee-lined it back north (or west actually) to Costa Rica, and yep, I got a second speeding ticket on the way ...

... Guide Warn** war ein cool** Typ und nahm seinen Job **nst, auch wenn es auf dem Fluss (Stromschnellen d** Klasse 2-3) nicht besond**s gefaehrlich wurde. Es gab ein paar Stellen wo es uns ziemlich durchschuettelte, trotzdem war es insgesamt eine recht gemaechliche Angelegenheit mit viel Paddeln. (Auf jeden Fall war es mehr Fun und Aufregung als bei mein** **sten Rafting-Tour in d** Schweiz!). Einmal mussten wir halten, da ein Boot eines and**en V**anstalt**s auf einem Felsen ...

... done in a big red marker pen) which was coincidentally what me and the Swedes ate for dinner last night. Dinner and beers followed as myself and the Swedes celebrated our small ascent. Then went to bed well tired and dreaming of chocolate (I've craved chocolate since the failed volcano hike). Nov 19th - Merida (Lake Nicaragua) Today was supposed to be my last day here at the lakeside paradise and I was going to take the afternoon bus to Altagracia, from where I take a ferry the next ...

... is about 1 km away. I don't have access to a phone in this town, and to get to one I have to walk for at least 2 hours on rough dirt roads. <br><br>Work<br><br>Classes are held in the salon (or community center) while the real school is being built. The salon has no lights and no walls, so everyone can generally see and hear everything in the other classes. There are three other teachers, and 16 students in the 7th grade, 10 in 8th grade, and 8 in 9th ...

... second turtle had been sighted, and our group was to organize to go down. Since we had NO CAR (people still looked at us funny when we said that), we were assigned to ride over with an American family living in Costa Rica and visiting Playa Grande on vacation. The ride was very brief, yet unnecessarily convoluted (we couldn't tell if one of the lead cars was lost, or if they were trying to hide the location of the turtles) and we ended up on the beach ...