Event report

March 2024 Costa Rica

   

A group of 9 ASU Retired members traveled for 13 days to Costa Rica, along with 6 folks from NY, PA, and Prescott, AZ. They were delightful companions and they proclaimed that ASU Retirees were very special, ‘because we are a fun group!!

Some of the trip highlights included:

  • visiting Escazu, a suburb of San Jose and learning about the annual parade of brilliantly appointed ox drawn carts,
  • making “mascaras”- traditional Costa Rican masks,
  • learning about the coffee business – grow, harvest, process, and package coffee beans,
  • rafting on the rapids of the Rio Sarapiqui,
  • seeing the results of volcanic mud bath, and thermal pools,
  • taking a forest canopy ride,
  • experiencing a river cruise on the Rio Frio,
  • visiting a cocoa farm, yum,
  • horseback riding to cool waterfall, with swimming hole,
  • outrigging on the Pacific coast with a beach picnic, and
  • searching the Rio Tarcoles for crocodiles on a cruse through a mangrove forest.

A good time was had by all and are looking forward to the 2025 trip to Sicily.

Story and pictures by Joyce Hartman Diaz

 

   

   

Taking the rapids on the Rio Sarapiqui

   

   

The happy travelers