New minibus network 'has opened up Costa Rica to travellers'
Monday, June 29, 2009The arrival of the minibus in Costa Rica "is opening up the country for holidaymakers" according to a travel writer.
Will Pavia, writing for the Times, said that a new network of minibuses that has started running in the country this year will take imaginative travellers across the country in "a matter of hours".
"You are picked up early and delivered to a new world, a new hotel and a new frog with most of the day left to explore," he explained.
On his ten-day trip, Mr Pavia visited the town of La Fortuna, located at the base of the Arenal Volcano.
He said that when the cloud lifted and they saw into the unstable mountain, it was "thrilling".
The next stop-off point on the trip was on the Sarapiqui River and then to the Caribbean coast.
He added that everything felt "very safe" and they ate fruit off the ground and drank the water.
One of the must-see destinations on a holiday tour to Costa Rica is Montverde and the cloud forest, according to Lonely Planet.
Monteverde is home to two small settlements dating back to the 1930s - one of which is Quaker.
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