Heredia Travel Blogs

    After our third day of the rafting trip, we headed back to Heredia. I finished up some souvenir shopping for friends and family and took the first warm shower I've had in a while. Haha. For myself, I got five packs of these coconut cookies that I had fallen in love with. &nb…

It's weird. I'm back in my old room in my house in Heredia. It doesn't even feel the least bit weird. I'm just, Home. I spent the last eight days in Santa Teresa. I've officially claimed that place my "happy place." I'm always so at peace. When I finally arrived in front of Casa del Mar in the POUR…

Today we went on a horseback ride and on a canopy zip line tour through the jungle.  But first, we woke up and had a breakfast buffet at the Peace Lodge.  It was a great breakfast for about $8 all you can eat.Out lodge drove us to the place where the tour began.  We got a locker and …

Knowing that we had an orientation meeting at 12.30, we (by we I mean; me and Geri, and the two guys who's dorm we’d invaded because "ours was too wet") set an alarm for 10.30 because we wanted to try to do some of our required shopping with Lauren's assistance before the meeting. But we awoke to…

“After all, people don’t actually get over experiences, especially profound ones, as much as they incorporate them into their character and personality and respond to all subsequent experience from the perspective of their new self.”From The Stages of Reentry, The Art of Coming Home.A “Frie…

A friendly welcome into a beautiful country...

On our second weekend trip out of Heredia we headed to the famous volcano Arenal...

These are some pictures of the 9 months I spent teaching in Costa Rica.

I was working at Tirimbina Biological Reserve near Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui. Really beautiful if anyone has a chance to get there. And by the way I was in Costa Rica from mid December 2006 through end of January 2007, BUT for some reason, the year dates are defaulting to 2004 through 2025...

Student travel is one of the most rewarding ways to travel. If you are priviledged enough to be a student or a teacher taking students on trips get the most out of it as you can. One of the most important things I can say for students that are going on an educational trip is to come prepared. I hav…

During the slow season of tourism here in Costa Rica us guides are often invited on free trips to get to know new hotels or a chance to see what hotels have done to improve their services. This last weekend we took a 3 day trip to Tortuguero to visit Mawamba Lodge which is a Costa Rican owned …

 I love to play poker , actually I play online poker every day, I was trying to find a site to play and I found www.doingpoker.com , they have excellent software and very good promotions, and you can find a lot of free poker games , my favorite is texas holdem , you definitely have to try it, …

I'm introduced to Costa Rica's expansive beauty on my first excursion out of Heredia to Monteverde, and enjoy some more home life with my host family.