In know it´s been a while since my last blog-post. Now here is the most recent update: I´ve been home (in Austria) since the end of April, that´s almost 5 months now. I´ve had a very hard time getting used to being back – it was way harder than when I left, when I had … Mehr Adiós Costa Rica!
One of the last weekends I went to the nationalpark „Volcan Tenorio“ in Alajuela with another volunteer from Austria to visit „Río Celeste“. It was a long way to get there, we even had to hitchhike to reach the park. Río celeste has its name because of the wonderful blue colour the water there has. … Mehr Blue waterfalls
The last month I´ve been doing quite a few one-day trips and I loved it – I saw beautiful things, it was easy to plan, easy to get there and I didn´t have to spend a lot of money. One day my host family and me went to a beach with black sand together – … Mehr One-day trips
Some time ago a volunteer from Taiwan, Iting, and me went to Montezuma in the province Puntarenas. The day we arrived we still had enough time in the afternoon to have a look around downtown and make plans for the following two days. The first day we decided to hike to a waterfall. It took … Mehr Montezuma
Once again I had to leave Costa Rica to get another 90 days of visa. This time I decided to travel to the beautiful Bocas del Toro, a formation of islands on the caribbean side of Panama. Getting there took us almost a whole day, it was a really exhausting journey. First we took a … Mehr Panama, Bocas del Toro (=Paradise)
Wednesday, the 18th of January, my host family took me to Palmares in the province Alajuela, which is most famous for the ‚Tope‘ (a horseback riding parade through town) and the ‚Carnaval‘. We didn´t visit those two events but instead we went there to see bullfights (the first time in my life :o). Before … Mehr Bullfights in Palmares
The week between Christmas and New Year´s Eve my whole host family was in Europe, so the grandparents invited me to go with them to their „Quinta“ (a typical house in a rural area) in the Province Alajuela, in Labrador (close to the city Puntarenas). This was the second time I went to the „Quinta“ … Mehr Christmas-/New Year´s Eve – time
Last week I spent approximately 3 wonderful days (from Friday evening until Monday afternoon) in Monteverde, Puntarenas. Monteverde is most famous for the Cloud Forest Reserve that is located in this area, as it is one of the few Cloud Forests that still exist in the whole world. It took Daniel and me about 5 … Mehr Monteverde
I really can´t believe it: My first three months in Costa Rica are already over. Time passed by so fast. 😮 After being here for three months the other 6-months-volunteers and I had to take a trip and get out of Costa Rica. The reason for that is our kind of visa: We have a … Mehr Adventures in Nicaragua
Saturday the 15th to Monday the 17th I spent together with another volunteer, Desiree, in the national park Manuel Antonio on the pacific coast. (We even met 4 other volunteers we know from the orientation camp.) We stayed in a very cheap hostel (Vista Serena) to save some money, but actually the hostel was really … Mehr Manuel Antonio
Pia´s World 