Feet in a Fairytale
Hola! Well it's been a week now, but it feels like longer. Since stepping off the airplane (which I must say was the worst flight I've ever taken - I'm not sure it if was the 400 screaming kids, or the fact that they forgot the food, or flying through the lightning storm, or landing with no gates available - but, whatever, none of that matters now).
Exiting the airport, we set foot in a fairytale land. No kidding. Sunshine and smiles. There are friggin caliou lillies growing wild beside the roads! It is so lush and beautiful. Better then I ever imagined!
Our first stop was San Jose, but we didn't spend much time there aside from a few hours to sleep. The first morning we hopped the bus to La Fortuna. Why? Well, to see lava rolling down the side of a volcano of course! (Better then any firework displays I've ever set eyes on) And to hike through the rainforest amidst the poisonous spiders, howler monkeys, and such. We sat in 28 hot springs or so, and then sadly, but with much enthusiasm, we left for our next stop. The trecherous climbing road, complete with pot holes big enough to swim in, lead us to Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. There we spent the day flying through the canopy on 16 zip lines. Harnessed on to the cables we had breathtaking views of the forest below. The monkeys must have laughed as we zipped by and then jumped out of trees on Tarzan swings, screaming in an abundance of excitment! The evening we played Spoons with the guys who owned our guesthouse and their cab-driving buddies from town. To soon it ended - we packed up our meager belongings and headed for the beaches. We have spent the past few days in Tamarindo, where we break from the sunshine and salty waters only for an afternoon siesta or to sip a few beers with our Irish buddies and anyone else we can find in this surf town!
Costa Rica is incredible! Extremely easy to travel, our Spanish is picking up, but one could easily get by with english here. Everyone is very friendly and it is very safe. A week in and already I have added Costa Rica to my tiny little list of places I would live - in no particular order the list is Saskatchewan, Nepal, Costa Rica.
We'll head back to San Jose tomorrow so Jolene can catch her plane back to Canada to the snow and the job - a life which I vaguely remember now... Sean and I will head to Montezuma from there to meet Elsa and Ian, with a stop or two along the way.
That's it for now, I must get back to the beach you see. I hope everything is going well back home and happy birthday to Auntie Brenda and Julie!
hasta luego!
tanya
Exiting the airport, we set foot in a fairytale land. No kidding. Sunshine and smiles. There are friggin caliou lillies growing wild beside the roads! It is so lush and beautiful. Better then I ever imagined!
Our first stop was San Jose, but we didn't spend much time there aside from a few hours to sleep. The first morning we hopped the bus to La Fortuna. Why? Well, to see lava rolling down the side of a volcano of course! (Better then any firework displays I've ever set eyes on) And to hike through the rainforest amidst the poisonous spiders, howler monkeys, and such. We sat in 28 hot springs or so, and then sadly, but with much enthusiasm, we left for our next stop. The trecherous climbing road, complete with pot holes big enough to swim in, lead us to Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. There we spent the day flying through the canopy on 16 zip lines. Harnessed on to the cables we had breathtaking views of the forest below. The monkeys must have laughed as we zipped by and then jumped out of trees on Tarzan swings, screaming in an abundance of excitment! The evening we played Spoons with the guys who owned our guesthouse and their cab-driving buddies from town. To soon it ended - we packed up our meager belongings and headed for the beaches. We have spent the past few days in Tamarindo, where we break from the sunshine and salty waters only for an afternoon siesta or to sip a few beers with our Irish buddies and anyone else we can find in this surf town!
Costa Rica is incredible! Extremely easy to travel, our Spanish is picking up, but one could easily get by with english here. Everyone is very friendly and it is very safe. A week in and already I have added Costa Rica to my tiny little list of places I would live - in no particular order the list is Saskatchewan, Nepal, Costa Rica.
We'll head back to San Jose tomorrow so Jolene can catch her plane back to Canada to the snow and the job - a life which I vaguely remember now... Sean and I will head to Montezuma from there to meet Elsa and Ian, with a stop or two along the way.
That's it for now, I must get back to the beach you see. I hope everything is going well back home and happy birthday to Auntie Brenda and Julie!
hasta luego!
tanya
posted by Tanya K at
10:27 AM
2 Comments:
Hi,Good to hear from you. You sound a tad distracted? 10" of snow here. Have a beer for us on the beech! A. Dino
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Anonymous, at 14.11.06
Have a beer for me too. Sounds like you guys are having an awsome time.
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Anonymous, at 15.11.06
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