Posts about Costa Rica

Manuel Antonio Beach Time

Manuel Antonio Beach Time

We drove for a couple of hours and then arrived on the outskirts of Manuel Antonial! We got to holiday house and it was so cool. Me and Lottie were sharing a room and my mum and dad were sharing a room, me and Lottie had her own double bed each, but my mum and dad had...

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Beach on outskirts of Manuel Antonio

Beach on outskirts of Manuel Antonio

Today we got to our next destination, on the outskirts of Manuel Antonio. We arrived at about 5 o’clock and got changed into our swimming gear. This is because it is exactly what mum and dad promised. A house that if you take one step out of the garden you are on the...

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Drakes bay, costa rica

Drakes bay, costa rica

Our next destination took a one-hour taxi, two-hour bus, a half an hour ferry, one night in a hotel and three hours in our hire car. The hotel had very cool pool, it was like a river going around all the deck chairs and they had water bean bags which were like...

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Drakes bay, Costa Rica

Drakes bay, Costa Rica

After a long day of travelling we arrived in Costa Rica. We stayed at a hotel for a night and hit the roads to the Osa Peninsula. We were driving for four hours and the roads were really bumpy. We eventually made it to our hotel in Drake’s Bay. We were staying in the...

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Drakes Bay & our Osa Peninsula adventures

Drakes Bay & our Osa Peninsula adventures

There was no need for the 5am alarm, the howler monkeys started at least an hour earlier, and being the 2nd loudest animals on the planet, after the blue whale, we heard them even though our host believed they are about 1km away. It was a pretty unsettled night...

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Pura Vida… from the Costa Rican jungle

Pura Vida… from the Costa Rican jungle

We set off from Panama bright an early after another beautiful breakfast of fresh fruit, eggs, pancakes, juice and coffee…. As seems to be par for the course in Latin America. We opted for a taxi to Paso Canoas, the Frontera (border crossing) between Panama and Costa...

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