Last Thursday Jamie flew in from North Carolina to spend a week at a place called Manuel Antonio on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Manuel Antonio is a small costal national park noted for its abundant wildlife and beautiful beaches, consequently there is now a 7km chain of hotels and resturants between the nearest town, Quepos and the park entrance. Jamie had fortunately booked a hotel/appartment for us that left us with a huge walk of 100m to the park entranc...

I've been in San Jose for two days now, my advise to anyone coming to Costa Rica is to give San Jose a miss. Its a large, dirty, crime ridden city which appears to have more razor wire on the buildings than in Johannesburg. In the hostel I've staying in I was caught in a flood the first night when I returned from the farewell dinner with the group I'd been traveling with. The new room than I was in, so new I could smell pretty much only the varnish that wa...

I've been in Costa Rica for a few days now and though its very 'Americanised' its an extremely beautiful place. First stop was Monteverde region to check out the 'cloud-forests' and their wildlife. The forrest reminded me a lot of the rainforests at home but with slightly different flora and fauna. I went for a walk through the canopy on the first morning there which was very neat, especially seeing my first wild sloth. The nature on the guided nightwalk through...