Category: Travel
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This post gives an overview of our visit to Panamá and how we perceived it. This can only be a very subjective opinion from the perspective we got and we also expect that our measure will change over time while we adapt our expectations, gather more experiences, and get used to how things are going…
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The ones of you who follow us on Polarsteps can probably already guess what this post is about. After lots of fun paragliding, a small mistake during landing was enough to ground Katy for at least a few weeks. Before we get to that, though, let me introduce you to the lovely little mountain town…
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This post is the long answer to “How did you find Costa Rica?”. This is obviously very subjective and we also expect our perspective to shift over the course of our journey as we gather more experiences and adapt to a new normal. For example, while we may have found traffic noteworthy in one country,…
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Before we get to Colombia, let me summarise the few days in between. With a draining hike to the takeoff in Jacò, a wrong move when getting up from a park bench, and a 17-hour bus ride, I managed to overwhelm my lower back and was barely able to walk when reaching Panamà City. I…
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In comparison to Dominical, which was a nice little surfer town with charm, we encountered Jacó as a huge, noisy, party-surfer town with one hotel and shop after the other. We only stayed one night until we boarded a night bus to Panamà the next evening. We made good use of our one day in…
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Our next flying spot is said to be the cradle of paragliding in Costa Rica. That’s where Jean-Claude emigrated to from Switzerland in 1999. Over the years he built up a paragliding paradise with a vast takeoff, restaurant, viewing area, top-landing space, etc. From the launch, you overlook the bay of Caldera, a small village,…
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After the heat of Dominical beach, the lower temperature in the mountains was very welcome. Rivas is a little village at an altitude of 750m and part of a mountain range that peaks at the highest mountain of Costa Rica, Cerro Chirripó, at 3800m. The closest city is San Isidro. We went to Rivas with…
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Standing at the Dominical paragliding takeoff we see the white clouds above us, the jungle below, and the waves of the pacific ocean hitting cinnamon-colored beaches along this seemingly endless shoreline. Looking straight ahead, we spot playa Dominicalito, the little sister of Dominical beach which is located a bit further up north. The wind is…
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Even though we just spent one full day in Santa Fe we were quite relaxed. And while we would have been happy to stay longer, we were ready for another day on the road. A bus arrived right when we reached the bus stop so we didn’t get breakfast in Santa Fe. We could have…
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Next up was a little town called Santa Fe north of Panama City where we were looking for more rural impressions of Panamá. To get there, we went to the communal bus station in Albrook. It had several counters with destinations written on top, so we went to the one that stated Santiago (the main…
