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In addition to the zip line tour, we partook in a few other activities while at the Buena Vista Lodge. We went horseback riding. This is my horse. He was kind of a bully and would bite the other horses in our group. They made us wear these ridiculous helmets. Where I grew up, you [...]

One of the most popular tourist activities in Costa Rica is the canopy tour, which entails clipping a carabiner to a steel cable that has been strung between two platforms and traveling to the next platform via this steel cable. We did the zip line at the Buena Vista Lodge, which had eleven platforms and [...]

On Friday, our last full day in Costa Rica, we grabbed our surf gear, hopped on the Witch’s Rock Surf Camp bus at 6am and headed to Playa Avellanas, a few miles south of Tamarindo. Here are a few photos from that trip.

So, back to my Costa Rica trip, which I returned from over a month ago. We stayed at Witch’s Rock Surf Camp, a beachfront hotel run by surfers, for surfers. WRSC was founded by Joe Walsh, a Californian who decided to move to Costa Rica following his graduation from UCSD. He bought an old school [...]