Beautiful Costa Rica

Costa Rica is definetely a place that Andrew and I want to go back to. We only had a 4 day layover so we didn't get to do a lot. But from what we saw... it was beautiful!



We took a flight to San Jose, Costa Rica from Caracas, Venezuela. We checked into a cute hostel called Gaudy's Backpackers. Our friends Andy and Andrea whom we had last seen a few weeks ago in Taganga, Colombia had agreed to meet us there. Consequently they were also heading to Costa Rica around the same time as our stop over. It was exciting to meet up with them again, as we had gone our seperate ways and now where back together.

Andy and Andrew really wanted to go surfing together down on the Pacific coast, but we decided against it as it would be 5 hour bus ride and we only had 4 days including travel days, so we decided to stay the entire time in San Jose.

On our first day, Andrew and I went to a Gold museum that had artifacts and jewelery made of gold. Since it was our 3rd Gold museum in 3 months... we rushed through it pretty quickly but I have to say it was very good.

Our 2nd day Andy and Andrea arrived, we basically chatted and tried to catch up on things. We also went for a great meal at a Peruvian restaurant called... "Macchu Picchu."

3rd day we went on an excursion to some Hot Springs and to see an active volcano. The scenery that we saw on the bus ride was spectacular... everything was so lush and green. The hot springs were really nice. They springs were in a huge water park with tons of different types of pools to go in, all with different temperatures. They even had 3 waterslides which we all tried. One of the slides that only Andrea, Andy and Andrew tried was as they said... "the scariest most unsafe ride they have ever been on...". So after spending many hours in the hot springs and on slides we were suppose to drive to the volcano, but unfortunately for us there was no visabiltiy that evening... and we could not see the volcano. We are told that when it is a clear night, you can see the red glow of lava around the tip.

The next morning we were off to the airport... and it was time for another goodbye!

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San Jose, Costa Rica

~Nicola