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Travel stories from Monteverde

Collection of 16 travel stories from Monteverde, Costa Rica. Written by your friends on the road.

Traveler mira

Crossing over to the adventure capital.... Costa Rica!
2008-03-13, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: mira

Another border crossing into... Costa Rica! There is an obvious finacial difference between Costa Rica and its northern neighbours. Everthing costs more here, but there is also the good infrasturcture...

 
Picture from story Flying through the canopy

Flying through the canopy
2008-03-14, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: mira

Today was the first of the adventure activities for this leg of the journey. Firstly I'd like to say I'm not very good with heights... in fact I'm scared of them. Which makes my choice of activity tod...

 
Picture from story Day 10 – Zip Lining Canopy Tours and New Years Eve

Day 10 – Zip Lining Canopy Tours and New Years Eve
2007-12-31, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily

Ahh, almost done having to not wake up using my internal body clock. That is incredibly tough and tiring because you end up sleeping light in fear of sleeping through your activities! Today was the ...

 
Picture from story Day 9 – ATV Tour & Shopping

Day 9 – ATV Tour & Shopping
2007-12-30, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily

We found out last night that our walls were incredibly thin, we could hear our neighbors quite well while we were trying to sleep. This trip was tiring is out! We had breakfast at the bakery that we ...

 
Picture from story Day 8 - Monteverde and the Twilight Tour

Day 8 - Monteverde and the Twilight Tour
2007-12-29, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: dalasnlily

Today we headed on the taxi-boat-taxi ride from Arenal to Monteverde. WOW, just WOW. Too many people crammed onto a boat, three to a seat with luggage piled up in a corner, then over an hour on anoth...

 
Traveler dave_stone

Rain, and basketball denied
2007-06-02, monteverde, Costa Rica. By: dave_stone

All is well in Costa Rica... Our flight came in safely, etc. We stayed in Alajuela for the first few nights. Not much going on there. Took the bus to La Fortuna a few days ago. Went to Arenal Vol...

 
Picture from story Monteverde

Monteverde
2006-10-24, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: lindy

Today was a pretty chill day, I got up early and headed out to Monteverde via van - boat - van. On the boat I met some really cool Israelis that told me that they got really sick in Bolivia, Oy! Then...

 
Traveler costarica

Monteverde
2006-10-23, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: costarica

Monteverde is a cloud forest in Costa Rica. My Monteverde travelblog here: [url]http://monteverde.typepad.com/monteverde/home/index.html[/url]

 
Traveler manana

It's ATV and coffee time...!
2006-02-22, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: manana

For today I booked two tours... yah busy me. First thing was the ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) tour. An ATV is like a big quad and is the ultimate transport for these terrains. We started of with a little...

 
Traveler manana

Trail after trail after trail...
2006-02-21, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: manana

Yeah, today is the day... we are gonna visit Santa Elena National Park. We were picked up by a minibus that brought us to the reserve. This reserve is a real cloudforest that means that it is always c...

 
Traveler manana

Monteverde... how nice
2006-02-20, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: manana

Finally made it to Monteverde... Santa Elena to be exact. The surroundings here are beautiful and there is a lot to do as well. Made reservations for the quad tour (to brake the other leg...) and the ...

 
Picture from story A nature´s tour in Costa Rica

A nature´s tour in Costa Rica
2005-11-30, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: incaqueen

After Hurricane Gamma whipped past Honduras leaving a trail of destruction, I decided to stop by Costa Rica for a week´s break before heading on to Honduras. Being such a last minute decision, I had ...

 
Traveler ccraft

headline: Candian woman dies when bus falls off cliff in wind storm
2004-02-03, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: ccraft

[If you'd like to see my travel photography portfolio, please visit http://www.pbase.com/ccraft/] So, I was on a public bus heading into the mountains, having a great chat with a girl from Sweden n...

 
Traveler jmjourney

zipping through the canopy
2004-01-09, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: jmjourney

When we woke up extra early to look out hopefully at the sky to see if we could go rafting, it was still raining cats and dogs and three-toed sloths. We decided to end the wait and move on, hopping...

 
Traveler craigvern

Hola desde Santa Elena, Costa Rica
2003-03-01, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: craigvern

We all called home recently to say hello to our parents, and Susannah’s Dad asked her what it is that we do all day. We all thought that this as an excellent question, and laughed about how vague our ...

 
Traveler nsuffield

Flora, fauna and some salsa lessons
2002-04-03, Monteverde, Costa Rica. By: nsuffield

We found a really nice guest house in Monteverde (El Atardecer). The views were amazing and the rooms really cosy. We even were allowed to use the kitchen which prompted us to buy loads of food and wi...

 


 
 

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