Costa Rica Gallery

Photos from my three months in Costa Rica. October 10, 2013-January 8, 2014

Sunrise on the way to the airport to fly to Costa Rica

Sunrise on the way to the airport to fly to Costa Rica

First church service in Costa Rica

Stairs to a waterfall

Villas Mastatal

Sometimes, some places take a while to adjust to and sometimes they don’t. The first few days of being here I felt a bit out of place, but as different volunteers started to come and go I really grew to love this place and the people.

There is always so much to do–for work and play.

A rainbow greeted me while I was waiting for the bus to Villas Mastatal.

Fruit salad for breakfast every morning.

Empanadas filled with rice and beans.

A painting I gave to the family.

Cooking pig for the Christmas season. Killed the same day.

Firepit.

Pizza cooking in the brick oven.

Dessert pizza with dulce de leche and pineapple.

Pizza night!

Plants

Aquaponics

Compost shower

Tilapia pond for aquaponics

Cabin

“El Rancho” the place to hang out. Hammocks, ping pong, paints, music, books…

Hidroponia. Seedlings growing only in coal.

Waterfall

Raquel’s parent’s house right next door

Path to the farm

“Pepe” for Christmas meat.

Tree nursery

Compost

Dormitory

Compost toilet

Sinks and showers

New piglets for meat

Solar oven

Frog eggs

Raquel, me, Andres, and Javier

The moon early in the morning

Camping Under a Waterfall

I went with three of the volunteers on a short two day outing this month. We took the bus to San Cristobal, where David met us. David is the boyfriend of Maria (daughter of Luz and Memo). He lead us on an approximately two hour walk up a mountain.

I was told that there were about two thousand steps to the falls.

Finca Chinchilla

Chicks for meat

Biodigester

The house of four hundred chickens

Coffee berries

I can milk this cow by myself now

They have four pigs which they use for methane

Each stack is a day’s worth of eggs, plus or minus 350 eggs a day

There’s always laundry

Work boots

The side of the house

The garden may appear small but it takes hours of work every week

This is the sink that I brush my teeth over, wash produce, cleaned chickens, look out over the river every morning…

Carreta or ox cart very typical to Costa Rica

Memo makes most of his money by buying and selling cattle