Villagio Flor De Pacifico Province of Guanacaste

... As we looked over the menu and discussed some of the options, Isabella immediately voiced her opinion regarding the duck dish! She’s had quite a fondness for duck ever since she tried it over the holidays in Hungary. We had no choice but to oblige : ) And were glad we did! The duck was amazing. I had chicken skewers with a coconut milk curry which was also very good. Since we have not been taking naps during the day, by the time dinner rolls around ...

... took a jeep-boat-jeep trip across Lake Arenal and through the rural countryside. The roads were steep and slick and ropes were used for more than a few vehicles to pull them up some slippery slopes. We were ecstatic to arrive in the town and find glorious sun and a hostel for $10 per night. Again we decided what trips we could afford in the touristy town and what we could do on our own. As Chad was determined to overcome his ...

... heard some howling monkeys which was really cool. They sound exactly like huge dogs as far as the barking goes. I cant imagine what it would be like to see one of these monkeys howl like that. I just cant picture it. When the sound of the barking got a little too close, a guy set off a firecracker, which seemed to do the job of sending them scurrying away. Some potentially great photo ops were lost as it started pouring soon after we got on the water. It was still a ...

... entire time! The public buses are super cheap though so that is good. We started out with it being very hot and a lot of bus windows were open. Between the bumpy roads and the bus with no suspension it was quite a ride and the windows kept vibrating closed. When we crossed a mountainous area the wind coming into the bus was so cold. Then we got out of that area and it started getting warm again. In ...

... creased so severally it looked like crumpled up sheets off of a bed.There were also thousand of tiny purple flowers that blanketed the soil. They produced a syrupy sweet scent. As we descend the mountain, homes suddenly became much more manicured with lush gardens. When we finally arrived at the Ferry to cross to the islands we learned that one of them had broke down and we would have to wait until 2:30-3:00 to board ...

... twice and made a thundering "BOOM" sound and we saw the ashes pour out of the top into the sky. Afterwards anyone who was feeling up to it went to a nightclub. Man! Costa Ricans can dance! Jasmine and I attempted to salsa. We made complete asses of ourselves but it was all for fun. Today was a travel day. We drove for a while, then took a ferry across Lake Arenal. You could still see the ...

Our journey across the border into Costa Rica took a lot longer than expected, mainly because the 8am bus from Finca Magdelena had actually departed at 7.30am and, having comandeered a pick-up truck and bounced along in the back of it to get to Moyagalpa for the 10.30am ferry (pushing our way through a herd of itinerant cows en route), we discovered that the boat departed an hour later. The term īboatī gives too good an impression of the vessel in which we ...

Yesterday was a day of perfection. We went toward the basically abandoned beach at Playa Zapotal that Sonny had found the other day. Driving through rivers over incredible rocky and washboard type roads and then............there was a family of howler monkeys. Oh my goodness from oldters to babies. RIGHT THERE. Then in the tree we saw what I thought was a 3 toed sloth but turned out to be something called a Tamarandua (or ...

... So, do you guys swim? Well, sort of...kind of...we can doggy paddle in the stagnant pond behind the soccer field. Ok, so we're not going to the beach. But where to go? And how to make this educational? And then I discovered Las Pumas, a small animal reserve that takes in animals from the wild that have been hurt because of human development. When the animals are healed (if they ever are), they are returned to the wild. But until then, the reserve has an impressive collection of ...

... sad to see, as every now and then we would pass an area of natural beauty. Untouched by farming and development and we saw what the area really should be like. Its dry here, no matter what, but the untouched areas were super forested. Big trees, vines, monkeys, and little shrubs. Its a real shame that not much of this area is how it used to be - how it should be! The final 20 minutes of the ride was along a horrible dusty bumpy road and then, up`popped Subway and ...