Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Costa Rica

Costa Rica- March 2-11th 2007
San Jose, La Fortuna Arenal, Monteverde, Jaco, and Manuel Antonio National Park


Spring Break 2007 with Shannon, Chris, Brian, Reed, Larissa, Pat, and Myself!

Day 1
Arrived in Costa Rica from JFK airport on TACA airlines. Our shuttle was waiting for us when we arrived, and took us to our hostel Mi Casa*. We dropped off our bags and then went to eat at El RostiPollo. We went to bed early for an early departure to La Fortuna Arenal.



Day 2
We work up and took a 4 hour bus ride to La Fortuna Arenal. When we arrived at our hotel Arenal Rossi***, we dropped off our stuff and ate lunch at the hotel. We made our plans for the next day and then took a walk into town. We laid by the pool, and that night we went to the Baldi Hot Springs. It was amazing, we could see lava spewing from the Volcano. I would highly suggest going to Baldi Springs.




Day 3
Woke up early and went repelling down waterfalls. Reed couldn't come so he went walking through the rainforest on suspended bridges. The first waterfall we went down was about 250ft, the tallest and then 150, 90 and so on. There were about 5 waterfalls in all to repell down. It lasted 4 hours at about $85 including lunch!! Amazing deal!! After that we went back to the hostel for our trip to Monteverde on a Jeep-boat-Jeep ride. We had a crazy Jeep ride for about 1.5hrs to our hostel Casa Tranquillo***. We ate dinner, explored monteverde, and made plans for the next day.




Day 4
Had breakfest at the hostel and then went Ziplining.There were 11 zips in all and the tallest was about 20 stories high and half mile long. So, so awesome. After the ziplining we had dinner and played drinking games.


Day 5 We hired a private driver and drove to Jaco Beach. The drive was about 2 hours long and we saw some crocs along the way!! We arrived at our Hostel Kangaroo* at about noon. We put our stuff down and walked along the beach to town. Later that night I went horse back riding by myself, I wouldn't really suggest doing that at all alone!! But It was fun.



Day 6
We took a cab and went down to La Playa Hermosa Beach and stayed there most of the day.
Day 7 & 8
We rented a car and drove up to Manuel Antonio National Park. We saw monkies, lots of jungle and beautiful beaches. We stayed there most of the day.
We drove back to San Jose to go home.



Costa Rica was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. I actually did not want to leave. I give it 5 stars!


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