San Jose Travel Blogs - Page 6

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A workshop on grant writing with the United States Agency of International Development, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance led me to San Jose Costa Rica for 4 days. Fortunatly, I had a some time on my last day in town to check out Volcun Poas, 1 hour outside of San Jose.  The clouds preve…

Ik heb ene half jaar in Costa Rica vrijwilligerswerk gedaan.

Getting up is the same ritual as always. Timo is awake firstly and sits on the terrace and watches the garden of the hotel to spot birds. Two hummingbirds fly past to collect nectar, six flycatchers look for insects, and a squirrel is jumping in the trees, even the smallest branches. A woodpecker c…

This was a one-week guided tour of three regions of Costa Rica - the Arenal Volcano, the Monteverde Cloud Forest and the Manuel Antonio Beach.

Costa Rica was awesome. I'm so glad we rented a car and traveled on our own instead of with a guided tour. I'd highly recommend it!

Un rêve...

Just a few photos from when I spent a week exploring this ecologically diverse and unassuming Central American nation. Pura Vida.

San Jose, La Fortuna/vulcano Arenal, puerto Viejo, Bocas del torro, panama city, portobello

Time to say goodbye to our tour leader who was with us for only 2 weeks.  Our new one is with us for the rest of the trip.  We also picked up 5 new people, so now we are a healthy 11.

Today we started off with going to the cow parade in one of the national parks in San Jose, which isn't really anything spectacular, it's smaller than Union Square, or maybe the same size. My points if just to say that it's not too big to be a national park, or in my eyes. After we looked at all&nb…

Selection of pics from our trip to Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. +++ Text is UNDER CONSTRUCTION +++

We knew it coming in... Costa Rica is the most expensive country in central america.  it is also the most visited country by US tourists.  Know all this, naturally we decided to try to skip the country completely.  i dont mean to bash Costa RIca-- its just not the place to go if u ar…

2003 Trip to visit family and lazy around. Hopefully I'll have time to go back some time this summer.

I guess I have not updated this in about 2 weeks. We´re in san jose costa rica, our flight to the states was cancelled because of bad weather in Houston so we won´t fly out until tomorrow. We've spent the last week in Boco del Torro, Panama. It was a cool town. One day we hired a boat with s…