Costa Lago

... over my time abroad. Panama: A stay with a billionaire in Noriega's former mansion Catching an octopus by hand. Costa Rica: El Puente, a soup kitchen, community center, and tutoring project for the indigenous Bribri in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca ...

... hopped on our mules (BMW GS 1150's) and headed South for 3 months. Our travels took us through Central US, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Antarctica. Hello Penguins!

... en este viaje, Costa Rica es el que nos resulto un poco más caro. Nos vemos en Panamá... ENGLISH: The immigration procedure in Costa Rica is a mess. It cost me some time to find the offices and to do them in order. After a while, about 2 hours, ...

... storm hit the area and blow over one of the windmills with more than 150 km/h gusts. Imagine that! That said, Lake Arenal in Costa Rica ranks as one of the most beautiful places besides Lake Atitlan in Guatemala where I have kited and I hope to return one ...

... had finished, a thick layer of fine volcanic dust rendered the van almost unrecognizable, so after once again negotiating the lake crossing on El Ferry de Ometepe, we decided that a major "clean-up" was in order before heading for the Costa Rican ...

Our three months journey (minimum!) begun relaxing in Montezuma, Costa Rica, a gringo-hippie town at the pacific ocean on the Nicoya-peninsula. After traveling alone in Panama, Emma joined me to explore this part of the world together. We decided to go to ...

... ich noch am gleichen Tag weiter nach Los Chiles im Norden, wo sich der etwas...ungewöhnlichere der 2 Grenzübergänge zwischen Costa Rica und Preis-Wunderland Nicaragua befindet. Man überquert hier mit dem Boot die Grenze um in San Carlos, einer Stadt ...

... al een kleine week in Costa Rica en breekt onze laatste week bijna aan!! (volgende week maandagavond landen we in Nederland). Costa Rica is een stuk welvarender en veiliger dan Guatemala en Spaans praten is bepaald geen must. Anders dan in Guatemala is ...

We arrived safe in San Jose, Costa Rica (after flying executive class from Guatemala City...they must have figured we had paid too much in air fare to Central America).  Any way, good service and good food from LACSA Airlines. We walked a bit in ...

... all day despite not actually being that far distance-wise ... the cynical side of me is thinking there is a deliberate strategy in Costa Rica to make all backpackers lives as difficult as possible so you give up on public transport and start signing up ...

leave Sanctuary Resort .. no obligations until Thursday.  We'll just play it as it comes,,,,But it looks like Monteverde and Lago de Arenal... And so it was.  We left Playa Azul at about 0900+/- and headed for Tilaran.  We stopped at the ...

... up the road paid off. On Friday we made it to the beautiful, rolling hills and lush green rainforest region of Monteverde, Costa Rica, where Chris and I had visited in January. We found another self-catered house, bought loads of good food and wine ...

... Rio Tropicales base we set out to the Pacaure river. On the way down to the river we saw a Sloth and apparently it was pretty active (Costa Rica have two types of Sloth, the two-toed and the three-toed, no idea which one we saw). It was moving at the pace ...

... and only got 3 hours of sleep. I managed to use my poor spanish skills to get a joints worth of trees off of this very drunk Costa Rican who spoke no english.. At the end of the night it did the trick, as Steph, Craig and I got thoroughly stoned off it ...

... weekend. Despite the weather we found much to do and our guide was very professional and knowledgeable. He told us the myth about Lago Arenal, which is the man made lake responsible for 50% of the power in the area. Apparently there was a city and ...

... ; After copying our documents, we were greeted by a cheerful man offering to exchange our money from Nicaraguan Cordovas to Costa Rican Colones.  Generally, a gaggle of money changers will surround us in a similar way to the border guides, however at ...

... . We only turned around three times, which is about par for the course on any driving day. When we reached the main road, Costa Rica Highway 32, we were set on heading to the Caribbean Coast to the port city of Puerto Limon. After hitting the roadside ...