Parque Nacional Carara was not my favorite trip, but a couple of cool pics here and there.
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I took some of my favorite photos of the trip at the white-sand beaches and lush jungles of Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio.
A photo diary of my trip to Mal País on the Nicoya Peninsula, featuring beautiful beaches, horseback rides and gigantic waterfalls.
For those of you who don’t have permission to see my Facebook (sorry), I posted plenty of the pictures from some of my more recent trips to:
- Downtown San José for El Día de la Independencia (complete with adorable children in more adorable costumes),
- Two trips to el Zoológico Simón Bolivar, Costa Rica’s famous downtown zoo (which may soon close)
- And a program trip to Parque Internacional La Amistad, which features beauitful vistas of Costa Rica’s eastern most jungles, great coffee and a baby goat.
And you can now view ALL my pictures from Costa Rica on my dedicated photography page on IFSA-Butler’s blog. With finals around the corner, captioning every photo is not a luxury I have. However, if you have questions, comment here, or comment on a specific photo. I’d love to answer them.
Just like the States, choices between cell phone providers are limited. Here, Claro, Movistar and Kölbi reign supreme.
I bought a Claro cell phone one of the first days I was in Costa Rica. And for months, I’ve been trying to get them to stop harassing me with promotions and ads in the form of text messages multiple times a day. Buy these minutes! Two for one minutes today! Buy today!
This is a story of lies, doublespeak and corporate incompetence.
Read the rest of the story, most of which is in Spanish.
Midterms were particularly hard this year for me. That’s not to say they weren’t par for the course at a national university. They mostly included in-class essays and short answers based on the readings, presentations, etc.
What’s changed is that none of this is in English anymore.
67 days.
67 days I’ve been in my new home of Costa Rica.
67 days until I go back home the U-S-of-A.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about that revelation, some of them clichés but all genuine.
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I’d also like to name this the theme song for last week, as it was also the High Holy Day week, the most sacred week of the year for Jews.
Ladies and gentlemen, Bon Jovi.
“We’re halfway there, livin’ on a prayer.”
I announced on this blog last week that I was going on a tech detox.
This weekend, I spent 85 hours without access to the Internet, media, news, the outside world or electronic stimulation.
No phone. No Internet. No Kindle. No laptop. No news. No Facebook. No Twitter. No television. No iPod. No Skype. No email.
And boy was it a great feeling.
Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was the sun. Or the weight of my backpack. Or of my clothes. Or a combination of them all.
Either way, one part of this journey to the top of Cerro Chato (literally, “Flat Hill”) involved lying down in the middle of the path hypervenilating.
This hill was anything but flat. 8 kilometers round-trip at a very steep incline. I was clammy, sweaty, and ready to give up and head right back down the mountain to the hostel.
Lucky the bottom half of my pants could zip off. Lucky that I could take my shirt off to prevent overheating. Lucky I brought enough water to keep me hydrated.
And I’m very lucky to have two good friends to share the literal load on my shoulders and take as many breaks as we needed to make it to the top.
And boy was it worth it.
Check out photos of the magnificent view.
(For the record, I’m still too sore to walk.)
Check out my latest photos of my trip to Costa Rica.
This first batch is from a trip to Cartago for el Día de la Virgen de los Ángeles, the annual pilgrammage to the church of Costa Rica’s patron saint.
The second is from a trip to a zoo near my home in Heredia, called INBioparque. Lots of beautiful butterflies, flowers, animals, insects, trees and more.
Zach C. Cohen 