Nov 19, 2014 | Blog, Costa Rica |
2nd November A drive down the coast brings us to Puerto Viejo, sandy beaches, palm trees and an endless amount of boutique hotels, cabinas, sodas, restaurants and tourists riding around on bikes. We stop at a bakery (with slow bad service) for breakfast. It looked...
Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Costa Rica |
CARIBBEAN COSTA RICA The 205km drive to the port city of Puerto Limon takes us around 5 hours on jammed roads, having to continually overtake slow moving trucks and cyclists. The route takes us via a toll road through Braulio national park and the busy highway 32 all...
Nov 17, 2014 | Blog, Costa Rica |
28th October MONTEVERDE CLOUD FOREST RESERVE The towns of Monteverde and Santa Elena sit between two cloud forests which straddle both sides of the Continental Divide. Warm and humid winds from the Caribbean sweep up the mountain slopes where they cool and...
Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Costa Rica |
27th October ARENAL In the morning, the sight of the looming Volcano Arenal is a majestic one, standing like a huge sentinel overlooking the serene waters of Lake Arenal and pastured green hillsides. The volcano was dormant for hundreds of years before...
Nov 5, 2014 | Blog, Costa Rica |
25th October We wake up to a lovely sunny day. After a breakfast of gallo pinto, eggs and fruit it’s an 80km drive to Lake Arenal along a slow-going long stretch of road which is under construction, hundreds of orange-clad workers, mud and heavy machinery for miles. ...
Nov 3, 2014 | Blog, Costa Rica |
(We have managed to fall behind with the blog, just not having enough hours in the day to do everything, so we are jumping ahead to the present and will try to catch up with the rest in between!) COSTA RICA 23rd October LA CRUZ After escaping a Nicaraguan scam...
