Trip: A year with a difference
There are [101] stories from my trip: A year with a difference
NICARAGUA | Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
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NICARAGUA | Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 | Views [2090]
So, it was time to leave Costa Rica behind for the last time. Rachel and I got a ticket from Tica bus and turned up at the bus stop half an hour before the earliest time that the bus was supposed to stop by. Just as we ordered our breakfast and coffee ... Read more >
Tags: granada, las isletas, masaya
COSTA RICA | Thursday, 6 Nov 2008 | Views [4926] | Comments [1]
A Fairy tale by
Daniel and Rachel
Chipi the Coati lived in the forest near the volcano. He was happy as there were plenty of nice
juicy grubs and worms to eat, by digging them up with his long claws, and yummy
fruit ... Read more >
Tags: fairytale
COSTA RICA | Tuesday, 4 Nov 2008 | Views [2523]
We exited Monteverde and headed on the bus for
Liberia, Costa Rica´s main northern town and centre for the cattle-ranching
Guanacaste region. As I explained
before, this was a slow journey. Still,
we started early, so arrived ... Read more >
Tags: dishonest taxi drivers and hotels, liberia, volcan rincon de la vieja
NICARAGUA | Monday, 3 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
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COSTA RICA | Thursday, 16 Oct 2008 | Views [2342]
Monteverde is one of Costa Rica´s top ´ecological´ tourist attractions – it consists of two large cloud forest reserves, below which are the two villages of Santa Elena and Monteverde – which, like Manuel Antonio, are little more than ribbon development ... Read more >
Tags: climate change, cloud forests, mass tourism, monteverde, santa elena
COSTA RICA | Thursday, 16 Oct 2008 | Views [2650] | Comments [1]
We left Bahia Drake and took the bus up to San Jose
along the Inter-american highway (which runs from Alaska
to the Darien Gap, Panama).
This gave us another opportunity to
experience the difference in the road system between Panama and ... Read more >
Tags: listening to instructions, losing stuff on buses
COSTA RICA | Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
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COSTA RICA | Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
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COSTA RICA | Monday, 13 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
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COSTA RICA | Monday, 6 Oct 2008 | Views [3949]
After leaving Boquete and entering
Costa Rica via the quiet highland border town of Rio Sereno, our destination
was Bahia Drake (Drake´s Bay). Francis Drake left a mark there too. This
scenic bay sits on the edge of the Corcovado national park ... Read more >
Tags: bahia drake, feeling great, feeling ill, isla del cano, seeing whales, snorkelling, splurging
PANAMA | Friday, 3 Oct 2008 | Views [4137] | Comments [1]
We had a long journey back
from Panama City to David, and after another stay at Hotel Toledo, we took a
chicken bus north into the highlands, to the town of Boquete. Although the town
itself hasn´t got much to shake a stick at (not quaint, and ... Read more >
Tags: boquete, cloud forest, coffee, resplendant quetzal, senderos los quetzales, volcan baru, white-water rafting
PANAMA | Friday, 26 Sep 2008 | Views [5523] | Comments [2]
Two weeks ago on Saturday and 600km from Bocas de Torro, we arrived in Panama City´s enormous central bus terminal. We were going to be staying with our former RSPB colleague Rita Besana. Rita was due back from Mexico on Sunday and had deputised ... Read more >
Tags: cops, panama canal, panama city, portobelo, taxis
PANAMA | Thursday, 25 Sep 2008 | Views [2138] | Comments [2]
Leaving Bocas Del Toro, we got the bus south (eg: towards the Pacific) to David, Panama´s second largest city. The bus ride was fantastic – across mountains covered in cloud forest, past a large reservoir lake and near the watershed, scrub forest ... Read more >
Tags: accordions, air-conditioning, panama, yodeling
PANAMA | Wednesday, 24 Sep 2008 | Views [2163]
After three and a half months in Costa Rica it was time to say goodbye to Rancho Mastatal and start our Central American journey. We spent a few days back in San Jose (after a surprisingly uneventful bus journey to Puriscal – the road was even ... Read more >
Tags: baracudas, bocas del toro, coral reefs, desert islands, inappropriate development, panama border crossing
PANAMA | Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 | Photo Gallery
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PANAMA | Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 | Photo Gallery
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PANAMA | Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 | Photo Gallery
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NICARAGUA | Saturday, 20 Sep 2008 | Views [1616]
So, Rachel and I had been in Costa Rica for coming up three months, the limit of our tourist visa, whilst we still had three weeks of our internship to complete. However, the visa has a clause whereby if you jump the country for three days, you can ... Read more >
Tags: border crossing, building conservation, crater lakes, ecology, granada
COSTA RICA | Saturday, 20 Sep 2008 | Views [1430]
Each week I´ve been filling a teaching slot at the local elementary school, 45 minutes on Tuesday from 12.15 to 1.00pm. It´s extra curricular, in the sense that it´s time that can be spent doing anything: music, games or in my case trying to do something ... Read more >
Tags: community
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