Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Costa Rican Summer Vacation (plus one hot american tourists!)

So the typical time to travel in Costa Rica – summertime – is JANUARY. It seems so backwards to us, but my siblings were just itching to get to the beach! Unfortunately we are all WAY to poor to actually go to the beach…$20 for a hotel, $20 (or more) a day on food…NO WAY! So we went camping!


Maybe you remember my last Costa Rican camping trip, but Costa Ricans camp in style. We are talking mattresses and stoves here. Yes, we slept in tents, but each tent also had mattresses inside…no sleeping on the cold hard ground here. And as for food – we COOKED every meal on our very own gas stove which we took with us!
We had a great time! First we swung by the airport to pick up this hot american tourist named Lauren DiBianca! From there, we headed northwest to Playa Hermosa in Guanacaste – which was way too crowded.

So we packed up and went to Playa Juanquinikil which just happened to be a biological reserve. There were no buildings in sight, but there were tons of animals, white sand beaches, and starry nights!




From there, we headed Volcán Miravalles where we saw the bubbling mud lagoons – which we then proceeded to bathe in! Oh yeh, and after that we took advantage of the natural hot springs to wash off which also included a WATER SLIDE!





It was definitly a vacation to remember!

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