Our little Christmas gift to ourselves was a trip to Costa Rica with 5 of our good college pals. It was awesome! Frontier Airlines just started a non-stop flight from Denver to San Jose.
We were a little antsy on departure day. Denver and the Rocky Mountains were expecting quite a bit of snow. Luckily we made it out with just one hitch, the ground crew quit in the middle of loading the plane and we were stuck on the tarmac for over an hour -weird.
Our friend Annie was our tour guide. We spent four days at her dad's house in Tambor located on the Nicoya peninsula, three days in the rain forest near Arenal and one night in San Jose the day before we left.
I'm not sure I had any idea what Costa Rica would really be like before our trip. It's a relatively rural country. A significant number of the roads are dirt. The Costa Rican people are kind and live simply by the mantra "pura vida" (pure life). I plan to brush up on my Spanish a bit before I return. It's not too common to find English speakers and the five minutes it take me to communicate on simple topics is pretty lame.
December marks the end of the rainy season and the weather could not have been more perfect. It was warm in Tambor, but not unbearable. It rained most of the time we were in Arenal - it is the rainforest- however, warm enough to wear shorts and swim.
Some of my favorite stuff:
- Cafe con leche (coffee with milk)
- Tabocon Hot Springs
- Italian ristorante in Tambor
- Fruit - oranges, avocados, papayas, passion fruit
- Yogurt
- Monkeys
- Yellowfin tuna - our boat captains grilled it and made sushi just an hour after reeling in the fish
- Bavaria Light
- Gallos pintos
- Coca Cola and Fanta made with real sugar (azucar)
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