Bird watcher's paradise: monteverde cloud forest

A hiking tour in the amazing Monteverde cloudforest almost made us professional bird watchers. we saw the very rare 'Resplendent quetzal...

Arenal volcano and hot springs

At the waterfall close to our treehouse...

Lounging in the treehouse today. Really nice place to stay- you have your own wooden cabin in the tropical rainforest but for western comfort it has running water, showers and even air conditioning. Yet, you are close enough to nature to see lots of birds, insects and if you're lucky even monkeys and sloths. I have yet to see one of the latter though. My boyfriend who claims to have been up all night due to jetlag, told me that he heard really loud monkeys this morning and I laughed at him a it sounded a little weird but them the owner of the hostel told us that there were actually monkeys passing through in the early morning today. And when we took a short hike to a nearby waterfall we heard them again. Have to admit, it was loud but I would have thought it's a strange type of dog barking... As it's very warm and humid today (no wonder after it was raining the whole night last night), I'm contemplating whether it's even worth taking a shower before going for another hike, up the volcano in arenal. This is an active volcano but the last time they've seen lava was in 2010 so I think we'll be fine. Apparently you can see the ash cloud s emerging in puffs every once in a while though. Curious to see that and most of all to bathe in the hot springs after. Apparently that's what arenal is really famous for.

Lounging in the treehouse today. Really nice place to stay- you have your own wooden cabin in the tropical rainforest but for western comfor...

Impressions from the real Costa Rican coffee tour

Visiting a coffee plantation was actually really interesting. Not only did they show us the plants and the process which starts with the harvest and goes through quite a few rounds of cleaning, fermentation and drying but they also allowed us to taste both the finalized product as well as coffee liquor and my favorite, the chocolate covered coffee beans.

Visiting a coffee plantation was actually really interesting. Not only did they show us the plants and the process which starts with the har...

Breakfast in paradise...

Tacacori ecolodge :-) delicious fruits and the best coffee we've had in a while... Off to see how they go about the coffee harvest in a ...

Bienvenido a Costa Rica

First impressions of our ecolodge: lush nature and just peace and quiet. Not too many distractions around - excited to get to read my bo...

Village Halloween parade

Since it got cancelled last year, I had to see the parade this year. Over one million people dressed up in super crazy costumes walked it an...

Jeans + Jersey Day

Today was Jeans + Jersey Day at work - really, just an excuse to slack off and wear denim on a Monday and for everyone to start talking a...

The best stripper was this one...

Everyone was a little surprised to see a heavier lady on the stage but I have to say, she did it in a nice way with a sense of humour, al...

This one seemed more like a regular stripper

She seemed a little more like a regular stripper She was giving us this weird facial expression as if she was surprised to be strippi...

My first burlesque experience

The athletic girl was my favorite... I'd say if you do this workout every night, you'd be getting very fit anyway...