10 Free Things to do In San Jose – Costa Rica As far as Central American capital cities go, San Jose is far above the crowd, save maybe for super modern, skyscraper-laden Panama City. Unlike the other capitals, San Jose has lots of interesting, beautiful architecture, both historic and modern; small but pretty parks and …
San Jose – Costa Rica I wasn’t expecting to like Costa Rica’s sprawling capital city, San Jose. I’d only heard bad things about it – dirty, unattractive, crime-ridden and with nothing to see or do. I’d already visited several other Central American country’s capital cities – Tegucigalpa, Honduras; San Salvador, El Salvador; and Managua, Nicaragua …
10 Free Things to do in Monteverde – Costa Rica Monteverde is a lush cloud forest region in north central Costa Rica. It’s one of the country’s premiere tourist attractions. Visitors from all over the world head up to Monteverde for bird and wildlife searching, walking in the exotic cloud forests, and joining in a …
All About Monteverde – Costa Rica Monteverde Cloud Forest area is one of the most famous and most visited places in all of Costa Rica. Situated in north central CR, just south of Arenal Lake and Arenal Volcano, Monteverde is famous for its outdoor adrenaline adventures, hiking in cloud forest reserves and trying to spot …
Arenal Volcano & La Fortuna – Costa Rica Situated in Costa Rica’s lush north central region is Lake Arenal, the country’s largest lake. Towering over its southern shores is the majestic, perfect cone of Arenal Volcano. Arenal Lake is actually a dammed river, taking on a typical dammed lake shape – very long and narrow, …
My First Impressions of Costa Rica I’ve been exploring Costa Rica for one full month thus far, with two months more to go. At this point I still have mixed feelings about the country. My first impressions were all pretty negative, but the place might be growing on me a bit. I arrived overland from …
Beautiful Beaches of Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast Costa Rica is blessed with a whopping 1254 km / 780 miles of Pacific Coastline. That’s a lot of coast for such a small country. (And that’s not including Costa Rica’s additional 212 km / 132 miles of Caribbean coastline) For the most part, the long, long Pacific …
Fabulous Samara Beach – Costa Rica Three days after arriving in Costa Rica for the first time, I landed at Playa (beach) Samara and caught my first glimpses of the country’s fabled beaches. Truth be told, out of all Costa Rica’s numerous beaches, I ended up first at Playa Samara purely by chance… I was …
Costs of Budget Travel in Nicaragua In 2018 While researching for my travels through Central America, I kept hearing how cheap Nicaragua is. Rooms, food, transportation. Then as I traveled southward through the region from Mexico I kept hearing the same reports from other travelers who were heading northward, having recently come up from Nicaragua. …
Costs of Budget Travel in El Salvador 2017 In late 2017 I spent five weeks exploring beautiful El Salvador. Truth be told, I ended up sick with bronchitis for 10 days, holed up in a San Salvador hostel while I took a course of antibiotics to recover. So I actually spent four weeks actively traveling …
Hi! I'm Lash, an American nomadic world traveler who's been traveling solo since 1998. I’m passionate about traveling the world nomadically and then sharing it all with you. I hope to inspire you to travel the world, to entertain you with tales from the road, and to help you reach your travel dreams. Welcome! 
