We had Zanzibar pizza for dinner the other night and talked about our travels there. That prompted me to dig out the photos to show the kids. We visited Zanzibar Island between Oct 21 and 26 in 2006, at the end of our two week visit to Kenya and Tanzania. We spent one evening watching […]
We signed up for a guided night walk in the Reserva Santa Elena on our first evening in Monteverde. Cost was USD17 each, which included transportation from and back to our hotel. Neil writes that the “guide for our night walk, Francesco, was excellent – soft-spoken, knowledgeable, friendly, and he really seemed to enjoy what […]
The day after our wedding, we rented a small Daihatsu 4×4 and drove from the resort in the Gulf of Papagayo to El Coco. After that, we headed to Guaitil, a small town where locals make and sell pottery using traditional techniques of the Guanacaste natives. We checked out a local market, and visited the […]