Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Date(s): Dec 30, 2014 - Jan 5, 2015. Album by David Clement. 1 - 66 of 66 Total. 47 Visits.

1 waiting for the bus at Kipling, wondering why I got out of my warm bed	2 Occidental Grand Papagayo	3 lobby	4 this is why I left my warm bed
5 Gulf of Papagayo	6 melt in your mouth fish from lunch buffet	7 the view out toward the Pacific	8 beach at my hotel
9 the next morning, at Hacienda Pinilla Golf Course	10 a transplanted Californian - Richard - runs a business taking tourists out to golf in the area	11 #10 - pretty, but a tough second shot; we played the blue tees on a very windy day	12 teeing off on the hole leading up to the ocean
13 Richard teeing off on the ocean hole - he broke 90	14 this is the signature hole of the course	15 New Year's Eve dessert buffet at Grand Papagayo	16 entertainment on stage over the pool; New Year's fireworks
17 the stage was still in the pool the next day	18 ceviche at a la carte Mexican restaurant	19 monkeys on Arenal Volcano tour	20 lunch stop, with our bus parked in front
21 Lake Arenal	22 coatis playing in the road	23 a tractor pulled us through the mud to get to the first zip lining tower	24 first tower
25 on the first tower	26	27 this was the view to the left on one of the lines	28
29 me zip lining	30	31 our zip lining group	32 after zip lining, we went to Baldi Hot Springs
33 neat water slide with 360 degree turn in a bowl at the bottom	34 La Tormenta - advertised as 45 km/h, but felt faster	35 hot springs - there were over 20 pools in total	36 the volcano is behind that cloud
37 chocolate fountain at the hot springs restaurant	38 the next day - this is the line at the Costa Rica/Nicaragua border	39 Catarina Viewpoint in Nicaragua	40
41 3-wheeled taxis	42 Masaya market	43 lunch stop in the Masaya Market	44 Masaya Volcano
45 quite smelly	46 can make out the crater here	47 me at the volcano	48 Spanish planted this cross - "La Cruz de Bobadilla"
49 oldest church in Granada	50 boat tour on Lake Nicaragua from Granada	51 island owned by richest family in Nicaragua	52 monkey family trapped on little island - must have been brought there by locals
53 locals bring them food because there's not enough fruit on the island for them to survive	54 7 month old baby at the top of this pic	55 Granada main square	56 this was the last stop of the day before the long drive back to Liberia, Costa Rica
57	58	59 kayaks at my hotel - had nice calm water for a morning paddle on my last full day	60 view of the "lazy paella" from my room
61 carpaccio of tuna and steak at a la carte Italian restaurant	62 beach is empty at 9am on my last morning - too windy for me to kayak	63 walked out on the rocks to get a view back to the beach	64
65 kayaks and beach chairs from my hotel	66 taken from the plane - I think it's Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua

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