A Costa Rican holiday

We have just had a 9 day holiday!!.

We met Steve at language school in Mexico and he suggested that he joined us, with his wife Sharon, for a holiday. It was strange for us to be travelling with other people who were on holiday but it worked brilliantly and we had a great time

Met in La Fortuna where you can see the most active volcano in the Americas - molten lava, rocks being thrown into the sky and a red glow lighting up the night sky. All we saw was cloud and rain for three days.

The Pacific and Carib coasts are beautiful and linked by some stunning roads across the mountains.





Costa Rica feels very safe and very rich compared to the rest of Central America. Even the non-tourist towns seem to have growing middle class and we didn't see the vast extremes of poverty and wealth. Just goes to show what can be achieved if you have decent Government.
A beautiful view on the Carib coast
There is a fortune to be made for someone to open a National Park here without a zip line or canopy walk. A consequence of the country´s wealth is that the touristy things can seem overly developed. But 25% of the country is national park and it has set the standard for eco tourism in Central America. We had some amazing animal sitings including a baby sloth eating leaves just above our heads and white faced monkeys, one of which climbed above me, got my attention with its sweet expression while it hit me with an very accurate stream of poo.

No friends

Sharon and Steve have gone back to work and we are in Panama now