Don’t Skip: Cahuita, Costa Rica
Intro to Cahuita, Costa Rica White sand, coconut trees lining the beach and reefs near shore? Sounded good to us. The small beach town of Cahuita is on Costa Rica´s Caribbean Coast, about 4 hours from San José, south of Limon. The area around Cahuita including the peninsula south of town and offshore was designated a […]
Arenal Volcano
We were blessed with a full view of the usually cloudy Arenal Volcano on the way into its closest town, La Fortuna. A few clouds had formed by the time we took a late afternoon hike in the area of the 1968 lava flow area. It was in this year the people who […]
Manuel Antonio
We arrived at Manuel Antonio, the town attached to the National Park of the same name, after another bad taxi experience in San José. We had to pass through, since we were travelling from the Caribbean to the Pacific Coast. There are separate bus terminals, though they aren´t too far from one another. The driver […]
Cahuita National Park
White sand, coconut trees lining the beach and reefs near shore? Sounded good to us. The small beach town of Cahuita is on Costa Rica´s Caribbean Coast, about 4 hours from San José, south of Limon. We decided this would be the perfect introduction to the country on our first visit here. High on […]
San José, Costa Rica: Do you know the way?
San José, Costa Rica From the moment we landed, we felt like we were almost home. Over the years I´d heard so many wonderful things about Costa Rica as a paradise of exotic birds, flowers and animals, spotless beaches, friendly faces and a high percentage of folks who care about the environment. More recently […]