Pura Vida “Dubara” - a revisit

  Tabacon Hot springs at La Fortuna  An overnight flight with a connection in San Salvador brought us to the San Jose airport after what seemed an eternity. Although we had fueled up on some delicious Gulab jamun cheese cakes I had made for Anu-Varun to sample, and we managed to get some Zzzzzzzs on the flight, the red-eye still lived upto it’s name.  Odyssey tours, the company we had used for inter city transportation in 2012 were waiting to pick us up. The trip which began with a quick stop at the super market to buy Anu’s 3 bucks Crocs knock-offs (replacing the 90 bucks hiking sandals she forgot to pack!) earned the kids’ Mc Donald’s’ sugar and calorie rich milk shakes. We continued on to La Fortuna on a beautiful 3 hour drive through the Costa Rican villages, unable to take our “red” eyes off the green stretches of farmland and forests outside.  Fruit stand stop on the way The entry into the Tabacon Hot Springs resort has lived up to the anticipation and the grea...

 It’s been a long awaited vacation with Anushree-Varun , Kairav and Reeva especially with plans falling through last 2 summers- Canadian Rockies and Iceland. Like every vacation, this has been so well deserved with the craziness at work for me and senior year for Parishi.  We have such great memories from the last trip in 2012 December with Adya and Jay that it was time to return with Anu-Varun and the kids. Kahan’s memory about Costa Rica 🇨🇷 consists of eating bubble gum ice cream, ziplining Batman style and Sumeet’s yellow fireman rain jacket.