Travelogues Provincia Guanacaste

We announced in the last post that we are currently on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Here lies the town of Tamarindo, which is supposedly the Mallorca of the US Americans. A...

Attention, ready, go... My adventure begins! It all started with me quitting my job. A very strange but at the same time liberating feeling. The preparation for this upcoming...

Every day brings new and sometimes unexpected challenges.

On our first day of work, we are trying to reforest a mangrove forest.

The tough and not so easy training to become a Rescue Diver.

Hello everyone! For simplicity and as a reminder for myself, I decided to create a small travel blog. It also serves as an additional backup for my pictures, in case my...

Now it's time to go to Costa Rica from Madrid. My first flight is from Madrid to San Jose. I was very lucky with the seat selection. I was sitting right next to an emergency...

Around noon, we arrived in the most famous city on the northwest peninsula, Nicoya. Here you will find not only the oldest church in the country, but Nicoya is also a 'Zona...

At 6:15 am, I took the shuttle to Brasilito. After about 6 hours of travel (usually it takes about 4 hours, but I won't complain now 😋), I arrived at Hotel Brasilito. The hotel...

Maybe we will have baby turtles at our beach soon.

Today we are reporting from the mountains of Costa Rica. We would like to tell you about an experience we had in Guanacaste (the region where Playa Grande and Tamarindo are...

On the weekend, we Swiss Chicas took a trip to Tamarindo. To my surprise, the 3-hour bus ride went smoothly. We arrived in the surfer and party town around noon. After 3 weeks...

I was woken up by the howler monkeys here on Friday morning. I also encountered them on the way to school 🐒. To start off the weekend, we had to have a little party in the...

My first day of school in Samara started at 7:00. When I arrived at school, after a conversation that lasted about 10 minutes, if you can even call it a conversation with all...

After the weather forecast reported more rain today, we decided to visit Barra Honda National Park, which is 60 km away. So we got in the car and drove for about an hour. On the...

After a bumpy and sweaty bus ride to Liberia, I arrived at the Dodero hostel. The hostel is very small, but the garden is especially cool 😊 After my arrival, I visited the...

To not just lazily lie on the beach on the weekend, the four of us Swiss decided to go on a quad tour. Not everything went according to plan... We waited for about 1.5 hours at...

After spending a total of over 18 hours at the airport and on the plane from Hawaii via Los Angeles to Costa Rica, we were glad to have landed in Liberia at around 8pm. We...

The journey from Granada to the border went surprisingly smoothly, and we quickly reached our destination. As soon as we arrived there, we were approached by a Tica-Bus...

Finally relax, that's our plan. After our humble breakfast, the margarine tastes like petroleum, the jam without flavor ... just sweet. Then there are pancakes, similar to...

Hostel Selina Tamarindo

The Playa de Tamarindo is known for its good waves and we also tried surfing. Since renting the surfboards alone costs 10 dollars, we decided to skip hiring a surf instructor....

After two days in the dust, it was now time to continue to the rainforest at Lago Arenal. Distance approximately 250 km. Duration approximately 6 hours. That's about the average...

Today there isn't much to report ... at 5 o'clock we were woken up by howler monkeys ... then birds of all kinds came ... Costa Rica is beautiful, but quiet doesn't suit this...

This morning we left Monteverde heading southwest towards the Nicoya Peninsula. The cloud forest lived up to its name. It was steaming like a cauldron in the rain....

We had chosen a combination of "hanging bridges & canopy" for our visit to the Cloud Forest. So we got on the tour bus around 7 o'clock and off we went... unfortunately in...

The meeting point for the Turtle Tour was at 4.00 am. After a one-hour drive, we arrived at Ostional Beach, where the turtles lay their eggs 🐢 It was definitely worth getting...

Finally at the beach! Air temperature: 31°C Water temperature: 28°C

Am Mittwochnachmittag fuhren wir nach Santa Cruz um die Stimmung der Fiestas Típicas Nacionales 2020 zu erleben. Nach einer angenehmen aber schwitzigen Busfahrt kamen wir bei...

Some things come back to haunt you. We didn't exchange money at the airport - why not? No idea🤔 But let's start from the beginning... We got up at 6:30 am after definitely not...