A recent trip home brought me via Costa Rica en route back to Honduras, so I did what any clear-headed person would do, and got off the plane... My first impressions of Costa Rica where great, my second was frustration as I was there during the rainy (or as they like to call it: green) season.
I spent a day in San Jose and had a look at some of the downtown sights.
I then got out of town and visited one of the volcanos. Poas volcano is about an hour north of San Jose and is semi active. It has a crater that is about 1km in circumference. Unfortunately when we visited it was covered in clouds so we didn't see any of it, hence no photo!
Costa Rica is south of Nicaragua and north of Panama with the Pacific Ocean to the west and Caribbean sea to the east. I chose to go to the Pacific as I was told that there was likely to be less rain there at this time of year. My objective was to go diving, however, there were not enough people so the diving didn't happen. However, it was nice to get to the coast anyway. This one seemed to be popular with surfers so it was fun to watch the ones who did go out try to catch their waves.
It's hard to describe why but I had a really good feeling about Costa Rica. It was immediately welcoming to foreigners and seems to have a lot of areas that are of interest to tourists. I hope to come back in the dry season and do some diving.
