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Pura Vida

What a great tiny town is Montezuma on the Peninsula of Nicoya, Costa Rica. Here I spent 5 weeks to enjoy the “Pura Vida” (Pure life, slogan used from Costa Rician people to express their laid back lifestyle).

With so many things to enjoy and do this was a great treat for body and soul: Surfing, learning spanish, beaches, waterfall hike, Poi show on Thursday night, Cinema at 7:30pm, delicious food in the restaurants, Saturday market in the central park, zip lining, running on the beach, great conversations with fellow travelers, relaxing with the sounds of waves. Here some more impressions from the paradise like town:

: Bookstore in Montezuma

: Main road

: Great talks with Nicolette

: Thumb up

: Wow what is this animal? A flying giraffe?

: Monkey chilling in a Mango tree

: Sushi night

: Saturday morning market in central park

: Beach impression

: Street impression

: Montezuma beach

: Movie night at the restaurant

: Anna creates a smile for Poi Night

: Wow how awesome is that

: Thursday night Poi show at the main intersection in town

: Kelly in her fire poi performance

: turtle hatching in Montezuma

: BBQ Tico style

: Spend at least two hours per day with physical, mental, spiritual or social activities (here with the awesome Thompson family)

: Dinner time

: Montezuma Waterfalls

: time to do some waxing before we ride the waves

: Yeah thumb up for the great surfing at Playa Grande

: Enjoying a great smoothie with Kat

: Mmmhhh my favorite drink here in the restaurants

: Montezuma Pura Vida

: Dinner time next to the ocean

: Soccer match in Montezuma

: City of Montezuma, Costa Rica

: Pura Vida

: Julia writes down a recipe for the smoothie man

: Pura Vida on the beach

: Sunrise

: Sunrise Montezuma

: Smoothies after surfing with Petra, Marc and Lauren

: Dinner at “home” with Hope, Marc, Lauren and Amanda

: Blue is preparing the BBQ on the beach

: Delicious BBQ on the beach

: BBQ on the beach

: Delicious sunday breakfast

: Swimming under a waterfall

: Center of Education in Montezuma

: Yoga pose with Nicole in my favourite italian restaurant in Montezuma

: Surfing with Paul, Marc and Petra and our surf instructor Pablo

: Pura Vida with Kat, Nico, Lauren

: Yeah thank you for visiting me in Montezuma Janett and Jörg

20.03.2013

in Hawaii, Video
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Volcano National Park, Big Island

What an awesome park on Big Island. Great hikes like the Kilauea Iki Trail, including a walk thru Rain forest and a crater. Then seeing lava glowing at night time, a street covered with lava. Just awesome scenery! Here some picture impressions:

: Dask impression in Volcano National Park

: And the moon is out

: Lava tube

: Ready for the Kilauea Iki Trail

: First some Rain Forest on the Kilauea Iki Trail

: Trail sign

: What a coincidence and a great talk with Katherine on the Trail after we stayed in the same hostel in Hilo, Big Island

: Flowers in the crater

: Wow what an awesome trail

: Road sign …

: Lava over the street

: Lava flow from the past

: Lava entering the sea

: Big Truck for the Big Island

: Crater impression

: Rainbow and crater

: Lava glow

: Morning impression

: Crater

: What an awesome National Park

: Steam

: Flower impression

: Flower impression

: Flower impression

14.01.2013

in Asia, Video
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Alishan National Park

From Taichung, Taiwan I went on a 3 day trip to Alishan National Park. Great walks in the park and the first impression what altitude of more than 2000m feels like. At least after 100 steps from my hotel to city center I was quite out of breath. But maybe it is just time to get more fit 🙂

Check out my first timelapse video (that’s the reason why there is still an Blog post from Taiwan although I’m already in Australia) with a forest walk in the National Park and of course some pictures impressions