Tiff: La Fortuna Costa Rica
"I forgot just before we left Nicaragua this little
girl saw my camera and stopped me to take pictures of
her. She exactly knew how it works because she ran
right over to see her picture repeated in the digital
camera. She wanted picture after picture and posed
every which way. What a riot.
The trip here was quite a struggle. The land crossing
into Costa Rica is quite a nightmare as they have to
be quite vigilant or everyone in Central America would
be pouring in. We had to change buses etc. several
times as the real way to get here is to go to San Jose
and then come up that way. Of course I wanted to see
the countryside which also made it the hard way
around. It was worth it though. Those people that
fly in and go straight to their destinations miss a
lot.
The funniest thing about Costa Rica is that it really
does look like Costa Rica. It is every poster you,ve
ever seen of a tropical paradise. One foot inside the
border and all the garbage, the begging children, and
the guns stopped. It is so weird to not be in sight
of rifles, street children, and garbage. I loved the
rest of Central America as it was quite authentic,just
like all the news stories but this is a wonderous safe
and absolutely pristinely perfect place. The whole
country is Buchart Gardens times a million. At least
so far.
Our hotel, Roca Negra, is heavenly. We sit in our
sparkling clean pool in the midst of millions of
flowers and humming birds and look straight at a
perfectly shaped cone volcano that even showed us a
little hot red lava at the top early this morning.
Yesterday we walked 6 miles to bathe in a cascading
waterfall. The swimming hole at the bottom was full
of friendly fish that swam right with us.
Today we are going to go part way up the volcano to
swim in hot springs and hopefully see lava shooting
out after dark from up close but who knows, often
there are clouds covering the peak. This volcano is
totally alive and spitting or soewing lava at all times.
I have heard more English in one day here than in the
previous 4 weeks. Thinking that Costa Rica is Central
America is like thinking a buggy ride through Central
Park is New York, but it really is the paradise they
claim it is. The most surprising thing that all of
Central America has in common is the gorgeous
abundance of flowers and the wonderful people."
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