With Jon and I both loving to travel, deciding upon just one honeymoon destination was quite tough. We narrowed it down to the locals that we knew we would only travel at this point in our lives...no kids, in good shape, adventurous, and fearless!!! We decided upon an "adventure honeymoon" and Central America looked like the place to go. Costa Rica is known for it's world class surf and mountainous inland areas with many active volcano's.
We started our trip in Liberia airport with a long and bumpy drive to a city further inland called Arenal. Arenal has the most active volcano in the western hemisphere, erupting almost daily. We stayed at the beautiful and remote Lost Iguana Resort. Our villa had an incredible view of the volcano, not to mention being directly in the middle of the rain forest. We spend our days here hiking, kayaking, and white water rafting. We had some amazing "typical" (local) food and lounged by our pool a couple afternoons.
Our journey next to us to Playa Hermosa for the beach portion of our trip. On the way we saw monkeys, macau's, and several lizards and iguanas. Again, the ride was long and bumpy...and we both experienced our first bouts of car sickness. We finally arrived at our beautiful desitination and were in awe of our secluded paradise on the top of the cliff overlooking the ocean, La Finniesterra. We by far had the best few in the city, not to mention the privacy of the entire property to ourselves! We enjoyed our private pool, went for jogs on the beach, surfed, had scrabble-offs, read, and relaxed! Jon would like you to know he beat me 2/3 games, but I would like to remind him I got up surfing on my first try. :) We had some amazing food at the local restaurants in Playa Hermosa and enjoyed our coffee leisurely each morning on our balconies.
The climate was hot and rainy inland, and hot and humid closer to the water, but beautiful non the less. On our beach portion we traveld to Tamarindo to surf and shop and several other little local surfer towns to spend the day. Most people spoke english, and our driver was actually from America, so we were lucky to feel the comforts of our own language. We left feeling ready to return to our busy lives and see our families!
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