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Some updates from our trip to … you guessed it … Panama and Costa Rica

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Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 15, 2017

Rocky Road (and boat) to Treehouse

For the next part of our trip we are heading to Monteverde where we are staying fancy treehouses in the cloud forest. The journey here itself was quiet an adventure. We had to take a van to Lake Arenal get a boat across then picked up on the other side by another van…

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Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 15, 2017

Mambo Combo

The travel company we are using for some of our Costa Rica a trips provided a tour known as ‘Mambo Combo' in Arenal. It is a consists of canyoning in the early morning and white water rafting in class III rapids in the afternoon. A pretty full day but it sounded like fun so we had booked it some time ago

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Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 13, 2017

Hot Springs

The first thing we did in Costa Rica was go to one of the hot springs. There are several of them in the region due to being so close to an active volcano. They just drill down enough and they have access to piping hot water. They even have a hot water river here. Steam coming off the river as it guess by…

Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 12, 2017

Panama to Costa Rico

It’s been all go here for the last few days so we haven’t had a chance to post. So a quick catch up. We left Panama on Wednesday and arrived in Costa Rico. On our last day in Panama we went to the Miraflores locks on the Panama canal. They have a visitor’s centre and museum along with…

Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 10, 2017

Panamanian Good Friday

Yesterday, Jan 9th, was a Panamanian National day of mourning known as martyrs day. It commemorates protests in 1964 over the sovereignty of the canal zone. This was an area that was essentially American territory until 1999 and anyone born there was an American citizen. Interesting fact…

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Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 8, 2017

Culinary Delights

We just wanted to do a quick post on some of the food and drink we have seen so far in Panama. We have been impresse with the quality and range of food. There is Indian, Chinese, Argentinian steak houses and lots of other different cuisine on top of their own local cuisine. We said we would try…

Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 8, 2017

The Panama canal

We had booked the canal tour a few months ago but you don’t know the exact start time until the day before. They tour company don’t know their place in the queue until the day before so that is why they don’t know the start time in advance. The tour starts at the flamenco marina at the end of a…

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Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 7, 2017

Arrived in Panama

Well, we arrived in one piece safe and sound. We didn’t get a chance to post yesterday after arriving so just getting around to it today. Also we were having issues with mediums android and iOS apps. It’s usually really easy to to publish blogs but once you’re not in desktop mode it is very janky…

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Cathal Horan in PanamaCostaRica

Jan 5, 2017

Last minute packing

With all the last minute packing we nearly forgot to setup our blog for some updates about our trip. So here it is …not much to write about yet and still got some packing to do but will update it shortly once we arrive!