Tag: VolcanoTrail
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Tour Title: Volcano Trail Tour Tour Company: G Adventures Tour Leader: Gabo Quiros Countries Visited: Gautemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Dates: 13 January 2013 to 29 January 2013. G Adventure Tours I took this trip as part of the Mexico and Central America tour between 15 December and 10 February 2013 which has four separate…
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Monday 28 January 2013 Highlights: White water rafting, Group farewell. The last full day of this leg of the tour turned out to be full on adventure, bumps and bruises! Instead of just catching a bus to San Jose nine of our group decided to go white water rafting and drive from this activity to…
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Sunday 27 January 2013 Highlights: The diverse and amazing wildlife of Costa Rica. Today I decided to visit the Wildlife Refuge at Caño Negro which took the majority of the day. My tour mates all did other things today so it was me and a few strangers for a change. I ended up chatting to…
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Saturday 26 January 2013 Highlights: Lake Arenal crossing, Stunning scenery, Eating like the Locals. We left the mountains around Monteverde via windy and rocky roads. The private van ride provided some stunning scenery along the way. The boat ride on Lake Arenal was very different in that we boarded from the shore not from any…
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Friday 25 January 2013 Highlights: Zip-Lining, Flying like Superman, Night Forest Walk. An action packed day in Monteverde. The weather here is actually more moderate due to the altitude and the mountains. I’m expecting this to be one of the last places that I can wear something other than shorts.
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Thursday 24 January 2013 Highlights: Tough border Crossing, Toucan Sighting, Sunset in Monteverde. With a 6 am departure time today we had an early start. Our host family provided a good breakfast to Stephen, Daniel and myself. I shipped todays cold water shower hoping the the thermal springs swim yesterday was enough of a clean…
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Wednesday 23 January 2013 Highlights: Island Wildlife, religious stone statues, relaxing thermal springs. Today was a chance to explore this unique island while others went bike riding and the more fit and willing climbed Conception Volcano.
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Monday 21 January 2013 Highlights: Laguna de Apoyo, Masaya local market, Masaya Volcano National Park. With around 4 hours sleep after the marathon 22 hour drive yesterday I crawled out of bed to visit the surrounding area of Granada. Some of the smarter members of our group decided to sleep in and see the city…
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Sunday 20 January 2013 Highlights: Escaping the island, 22 hours travelling to Granada 😦 We spent 22 hours travelling today. We left the hotel at 5.30 am and after trying to leave the island via a plane we instead got redirected to the Ferry for a very rough crossing back to the mainland. There were…
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Saturday 19 January 2013 Highlights: Worsening and spectacular weather. The weather worsened overnight leading to the cancellation of all today’s Ferries meaning we were stranded on the island. Gabo had to start working on alternative backup plans for tomorrow and the day after just in case we a still stuck on the island.
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