Author: tomandbunty
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Lima
Our first time ever in South America! We had always wanted to see Peru, and we thought that bearing in mind we’d come all the way to Costa Rica to spend three months learning about conservation, we had to treat ourselves to a trip to this magical country! Lima was a stopping off point before…
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Tortuguero National Park
Next Stop Tortuguero! After Monteverde we returned our hire car and spent a few days in San Jose with our new friends – Paula, Juanjo and Tio, their adorable Boston Terrier. We had a really good time with them – wine (French Paradox wine shop, San Jose!), homemade sourdough (Paula’s an expert), city tour (P&J…
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Monteverde
Our first trip was to Monteverde, around 3 hours’ drive north from the capital, San Jose. Monteverde is an area of cloud forest in the Cordillera de Tilarán mountain range. Cloud forest are like rain forests, only higher up and considerable cooler! We fell in love with a tiny little wooden house we found online…
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Arenal
After three days in the stunning Monteverde area, we moved on to explore the Arenal Lake and Volcano. After walking for far longer than we planned to in Monteverde, we ended up arriving really late at our airbnb next to Arenal Lake. The drive over was quite hair raising at times! We had hired a…
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