About my travels, and experiences of London life
28 February 2024
27 February 2024
Poas National Park
Today I had an amazing day. I wanted to visit Poas National Park and especially the volcano. The half day tours cost $80 and I didn't really wanted to spend this money. So I woke up early and took a public bus to a town called Poas and then another bus to a village called Poasito. The bus drivers helped me so much with this trip. From Poasito there are 10 kilometres to the volcano. There is no bus going there, so I hitch-hiked :) A local lady took me to the volcano, and on the way back a French woman stopped and took me to my accommodation in Alajuela. She is also travelling on her own and we had a good chat during the trip, in Spanish. I was so lucky! I even had time to visit the local museum of history that I found boring, but hey, I soaked up some culture.
Alajuela
26 February 2024
25 February 2024
Jaco
24 February 2024
23 February 2024
Uvita
21 February 2024
Jaco
19 February 2024
18 February 2024
Today the weather is much better than yesterday, so we feel better about being in La Fortuna. We did two hikes in near the Volcano Arenal. I have seen many more impressive volcanos, but it's nice to be in the park and the vegetation is wonderful. The air is very humid, the plants are tropical and beautiful. It was a great day.
17 February 2024
La Fortuna
We are staying 3 full days in La Fortuna. We are very unlucky with the weather, it's raining and therefore feels depressing. I don't like it here. The town is full of cars and you breathe the fumes all the time when in the centre. It's disappointing that because of the weather we can't see the Arenal vulcano. Today we visited the Arenal lake. It's a nice lake and if the weather was different, we would hire a small boat and do some activities. La Fortuna is a tourists trap and all the tours and services and expensive.
15 February 2024
Tortuguero National Park
We spent two wonderful days in Parque Nacional Tortuguero, in the north part of Costa Rica. It's a national park and the only way to get there is by boat. We took a boat from Puerto Limón, it took 3 hours and cost $35. Everyone loved the trip on the canal, we saw small crocodiles and a caiman, many birds and a snake that was swimming across the canal.
13 February 2024
12 February 2024
Cahuita National Park
10 February 2024
Manzanillo and Punta Uva
09 February 2024
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
We got on a bus to Puerto Viejo at 6 am. It took 5 hours. Puerto Viejo is a Carribbean coast village and I like it a lot.
08 February 2024
San José, Costa Rica
We arrived in San José on Tuesday, and took a public bus from the airport to our rented apartment. The next day we went to the centre of the city, at 6 am because of the jetlag. It was cold and windy. The weather changed later, at midday, it was hot and sunny.
We visited the National Museum and the Museum of Costa Rican art. The city itself is not so pretty, although it has nice parks. We also went to the Central Market that we liked.
We had lunch in a local Soda, a place with typical Costa Rican food, which seemed to be very bland. It may be the effect of the jetlag..
07 January 2024
On 28th December we went to see "Backstairs Billy" play at Duke of York's Theatre. I don't really go to theatres anymore, as they are too expensive and often I get bored. This play was very good though, and very funny, and the theatre is beautiful. It was also great to see friends at the end of the year.
12 October 2023
10 October 2023
I also visited Lucca, a beautiful town half an hour by train from the sea. It's small and so lovely, and it's a birthplace of Puccini. I met with Paolo from Couchsurfing, who showed me around and also took me to a nice craft beer bar, where I tried some nice and strong (8%) beers. I had a great evening.
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Yesterday we visited Manuel Antonio National Park. It was nice but over-promoted. There are many nicer parks in Costa Rica, but this one is ...
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On the second day in Quepos we took a public bus and went to Uvita National Park (Parque Nacional de Ballenas). The bus took 2 hours and arr...
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I took a public bus from Jaco to Alajuela. It's a town near San José, the airport and Poas National Park and volcano that I wanted to vi...