Santa Elena Stories


Day 11, Tuesday, August 7th – One Step into the Brink

This was the day we had prepared for and looked forward to since we booked the trip. Later in the afternoon, we were going to tour the cloud forest by zipping through it at 50 or 60 miles per hour. But first, we would tour the cloud forest in a less exhilarating way. We lost a few members of our tour group before we even left the cabins. Sonia, Shi...


Day 10, Monday, August 6th – Horses, Horses, Horses

I rode a horse for the first time today. We left the hotel in La Fortuna and made our way around to the other side of the volcano to the lake side. We got on yet another boat – this time a very pink Desafio boat. We had beautiful views of the relatively undeveloped countryside. There were more shades of green on one hillside than I had ever seen an...


Gringo's in the jungle

After we changed busses in San Jose (just enough time to pick up our newly burnt CD) we could just make the trip from San Gerardo de Riva to Monte Verde. The last bit of the road was in a schoolbus again, and this time the road was even worse. The Bus moved a lot, and at some point the girls in the bus were screaming, because they thought the bus was fa...