Author: tomandbunty
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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…
