My friend and I had been hoping to backpack through South East Asia but when riots and a travel advisory against Thailand appeared, we began to second guess our destination. In the end, we decided to postpone our South East Asia adventure, and go somewhere else. But here was the problem: where was somewhere else? For a brief moment we felt as though we had the world at our fingertips!! So why Costa Rica? We wanted to travel somewhere beautiful, painfully hot, adventurous and, above all, different. Continue reading