Travel Reports
Costa Rica Trip April 9, 2009
Costa Rica Trip
I went to Costa Rice with my mom, brother and uncle. Why Costa Rica?
We are on a budget and where looking for a vacation with lots of adventure, My brother & I went on line to look at some options.
Costa Rica came out as the best deal we where looking for.
Mom passed by Maduro Travel and in less then an hour everything was booked.
We packet our bags very light, got on COPA Airlines which by the way is a great airline to travel on with great service and good food.
We stopped in Panama for 1 hour but seams like 15 minutes so many electronic shops and so little time.
Arriving in Costa Rica we where greeted by Swiss Travel representative and where set on the bus to our hotel Britannia.
Next morning( Good Friday) we where free so we hired a taxi to go to JACO Beach for Surfing, my brother is a surf fanatic !
Saturday we where picked up at 6:30am for our 1st adventure white river rafting with Exploradores Out Doors the best rafting company and team ever!
When we got to the head office and we where in formed to pack a light over night bag. I have 2 waterproof bags where we put our stuff in and we stepped in a special off road truck and we where on our way to the river Paquare.
After practicing our safety instruction we where ready! We had 2 guide with us one with our food and overnight bags and 1 guide with us in our raft.
The sun was shining and we where doing great the rapids where smooth. Around noon we where informed that we where almost at our camp site.
We where greeted by our host Alvaro the owner of the camp site Aves del Sol we carried our stuff up a stipe hill. There was a small hut with a porch where, lunch, dinner and breakfast was prepared and serviced with a fantastic view of the river and by the way the best food we had in Costa Rica was prepared by our guides. Our sleeping huts looked like a deluxe hen house with two wooden beds completely screened, and exceptionally clean with a spectacular view. We did some swimming in the river and spoke allot to Alvaro (owner of the place) he had some great stories to tell. After Dinner we all went to bed early tired from all the rafting. Next day we where up early and ready for our next rafting experience we where going to do category 3,4 and 4+. That was a trill unbelievable it felt as if you where in an Indiana Jones movie this was the best adventure we have ever experienced! At lunch time we joined an other 5 rafting boats lunch was prepared & served by all the guides again in a team effort see pic’s
We also went to waterfalls and saw a poison coral snake.
By 5pm we where back at the head office and the bus was waiting for us to bring us to our next hotel Sarapiqui it was a 2 hour drive, arriving at the hotel we put our bags in the room and went for dinner the rafting gives you us a good appetite.
Next morning we are pick-up to go horse back riding the country side and jungle scenery was spectacular. In the afternoon we left for Arenal a 2 1/2 hour bus ride.
The Arenal hotel was very nice we had the Arenal volcano in our back yard they have allot of natural spring’s that we swam in.
Next morning we went on the Sky Tram and Sky Trac there we got instructions as to what to do for safety. The Sky Tram is a tram that takes you high up in the jungle you can see the men made lake in the back as went up. At the top we get instruction how to move on the Sky Trac and we had time to practice twice. There where 8 plateaus that you sip from one to the other. My mom was the fastest everyone goes from 1 side to the other in 80 seconds and my mom in half the time I have her on film.
That afternoon back at the hotel we all went on a excursion to the Arenal Volcano and my mom went to the spa for massage for some well deserved papering. Next morning we where pick-up again back to the city and hotel Britannia where we send the night and next morning we where on the plane again back to Aruba via Panama with an hour layover.
The vacation was great, cool, I would say a Costa Rican adventure that would stay with me forever.