Day 8 – Costa Rica

If you want to do anything here you must do an excursion. This port town is just a sandbar and it feels very 3rd world. There’s nothing to do here, everything is in the mountains. Mind you, the terrain jumps quickly from sea level to several thousand feel but it’s not something you should tackle by taxi. 210 people were on a non-ship sponsored excursion and they got back an hour past our scheduled departure. Had it not been for such a large number of people being late we would have left them. They were stuck in the mountains due to weather. Just plan on booking an excursion through your ship as the shortest distance you must go to see anything is 2 hours.



I did the Original Canopy Tour (and zip line). This was a 10-line course through the jungle of Costa Rica. Thankfully we’re at the end of the dry season so there’s not a lot of mosquitoes around. I can see how, when it’s really raining, you’d be eaten alive. If you’ve not done a lot of zip lining this would be a fun excursion. If you’ve done a few trails, I’d say skip this as you cannot go upside down and each line isn’t that long. Again, all about experience. My table mates did the Sights and Sounds of Costa Rica and were very happy as they got to see a little bit of everything there was to see / do in the country. It’s a 9 hour trip but from their pictures, I think I would have preferred to see all they did.