When I was planning my trip to Costa Rica, I kept reading about how I should take a day trip from Arenal to the Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge. It was hard to tear myself away from the hot springs at Tabacon, but I'm very glad that I did. As our boat rode up and down […]
In Costa Rica, zipline tours (also called canopy tours) are popular tourist attractions: they hook you up to a harness and then you glide through a network of wire cables high up in the trees. Although I liked the idea of getting a bird’s eye view of the rain forest, I had no interest in […]
(photo by Cardoso/Flickr) Yesterday, I wrote a post pondering why Jaco, Costa Rica, was completely empty when I was there on Tuesday. Well, today I have my answer: everyone had ventured northwest to Santa Teresa to get ready for Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s wedding! Santa Teresa is a surf town on the Nicoya peninsula […]
The last 20 or so hours of my trip to Costa Rica were spent in the beach town of Jaco. I had been warned that Jaco would be touristy, crowded and Americanized, but we decided to spend our last night there anyway so we would have a quicker trip to the airport than we would […]
It's my last night in Costa Rica, and thankfully I have wireless internet access again as I'm now at the Poseidon Hotel in Jaco. (How come the cheaper hotels always seem to have the best — and free — internet access, while the more luxurious ones either charge you extra for it or it doesn't […]
Hola from Costa Rica! I was hoping to blog every day but my plan hit a snag because my current hotel, La Mansion Inn in Manuel Antonio, doesn´t have wireless internet access in the rooms as promised, but at least I can check in by using the computer they make available to guests. Other than […]
My husband and I are big volcano fans. When we were in Hawaii for our honeymoon, we took a helicopter ride over Kilauea and hovered over the mouth watching lava spill out. When we were in Santorini, we took the boat over to Nea Kameni and walked around. So on Wednesday, our second day in […]
I’ve been in Costa Rica for less than 12 hours, but I can already say that I love it. My flight from Newark landed in San Jose a few minutes early, which is always a nice surprise. We had a driver from the hotel meet us at the airport to take us to Arenal, the […]
(photos by Corey Torpie) Nicaragua is on the brink of becoming a hot spot but for now remains a little rough around the edges, especially compared to some of its heavily-touristed Central American neighbors. That makes it ideal for travelers looking for an authentic — and affordable — vacation destination. Intrepid traveler (and talented freelance […]
