Tuesday, September 29, 2009

24h in Costa Rica

We have already been spending 24h in Costa Rica and already so many discoveries: Tasted the world famous costa rican coffee, saw a national park, saw a squirrel and discovered that our rain equipment is really waterproof but as well that a beige walking trousers can become in Costa Rica transparent in 1 minute..Anyway "nude" is quite fashionable nowadays.
This year it seems that the rain invits itself at all our holidays. It´s right now the low season for tourism as it´s the wettest one. But no problemo as said above we´ve good equipment.
Today we woke up very early and therefore decided to take the bus at 8 to see the Irazu volcano which is 20 km from San Jose. At the bus station we met an other backpacker and after talking to her for 5 mins, we discovered that we were not at the right bus station for the Irazu volcano, but we could still catch a bus for the Poas National Parc..porque no? After 2h ride where we could spot some coffee fields, we arrived to the Parc where the main attraction is the volcano crater. Unfortunately it was so foggy (2600 meters high) that we could not see much until it started to rain like crazy where we could finally have a glance:) Who would know that we would welcome the rain with so much joy?

Otherwise we walked a bit today around San Jose which is described by the guide book as "painful but inevitable". ´The guide seems right but still we decided to spend tomorrow exploring the city and its museum.

7 comments:

  1. First :-)

    Kidding.

    Good to see you guys that you arrived safely, keep telling the stories!

    Zoli

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  2. You bastards! ;)

    My day yesterday involved 8 hours of work, some eating, reading the TIME magazine, going through some posts in Reader, taking a few pics, and sleeping.

    Nice pics! :)

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  3. ha!i lol'ed at the "do not decent to the crater" warning!
    But seriously...online advertising is quite extreme as well!Njoy kids! :D

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  4. Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us.. Your views will help me in future when I will be there.. I was in search of such resource.. I am glad I have come to know about it..

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  5. nice post .thanks for sharing beautiful pics

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  6. Wow great post thanks for sharing experience

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