This is Why You Should Travel to COSTA RICA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- A day of exploring in beautiful Arenal Volcano National Park near the little town of La Fortuna, Costa Rica.
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Thanks a lot for watching and safe journeys!
Wow, that resort alone is making me want to visit Costa Rica. CR has definitely been added to my list
Go to Guate or nica instead
Since I am from Panama, I've never really gave it much thought about visiting CR. Panama has a lot of lushness wonders of it's own, but these thermal pools are really convincing me now. How amazing it's that!!!!👍
Panamá es hermosísima,Saludos desde san Ramón de Alajuela Costa Rica.
I like Gabriel. He has went from a backpacker staying in dorm rooms in a hostel to a 150 dollar a day budget.
He has earned it.
He’s put a lot of work into it. That’s why. Hope he becomes more successful
The hot springs are amazing when it's pouring rain because the rain is slightly cold and the hot springs are so steamy and warm you up well. It's a perfect contrast. It's one of the most relaxing and cleansing feelings you can have. Not to mention how they perfectly infuse the pools/chambers/waterfalls with the natural elements and plants. Unreal experience that I'll never forget.
Hey Gabriel your videos are great for getting me ready for CR..stay safe and keep travelling
Happy New Year ❤️
@@vinayakbiradar1424 To you too!!
I checked your video all in greek nice
@@effie-montreal This must be the Greek fan club for Gab! LOL
East the West Gabriel is the Best🤙🤙
Costa Rica is definitely right at the tippy top of my bucket list.
Hopefully get to visit some day soon!
Great video Gabriel
Looking forward to your next one 👍
16:52
Sculptor: I was inspired by a trip I took to Daytona Beach, Florida in the Spring of 1998. I call this "Tramp Stamp"
Holy cow Gabriel, you discovered paradise, that Bali place alone is worth the trip, what a great spot, thanks for the treat, love your style, no nonsense guy. Good job
Good luck brother, welcome to my home country. Love your videos.
LETS DO IT! what a great attitude to start the new year
I love your DP 😍
Haven't commented on your videos lately and figured this location was a great place to start. As you've probably heard numerous times, I'm living my travel addiction through your work. Could feel your excitement for the spa and hotel, and the rainforests. Thats some reasonable prices for all those amazing pools and haven't seen your accommodation yet. Hope the new year brings quick action for safe travel again minus the quarantine requirements. I'm so ready for trips back to Indonesia, but may reconsider to something closer like CR due to your videos. Happy New Year!
So nice to see a channel like this with good music selection!
Gabriel , don’t miss the free hot springs river while in La Fortuna
On the road next to the Tabacon hot springs. Cars parked along side of the road. Some hostels offer free rides there. Don’t leave valuables on the bank when you bath in the hot springs river.
Great video! Thank you for sharing my country to the world. I haven't been there since a couple of years but this video reminded my small but beautiful country. Keep sharing please!
Wow so glad you did not miss those hot springs I want to live there.
If it makes your non-seeing the volcano plight any better, Mt Fuji here in Japan is similarly elusive with showing itself in full. Even on clear sunny days there is often only a small window of an hour or two when the peak isn't shrouded in clouds. Lots of luck needed with getting the timing right.
I have a friend that visited Japan years ago and while on a vantage point to look at Mt, Fuji he said everyone there started to speak very excitedly and he looked up and the cloud broke and between the cloud appeared Mt, Fuji!!! He took some great photos and told me that some of the Japanese people there said that it was rare to see the Mountain.
@@WillieDuitt1 I hear the best months to see Mt.Fuji are Dec to Mar. Hoping to get there one day, one year.
@@WillieDuitt1 It's rare when you want to see it, and kinda not so rare when you aren't planning to i.e. almost every time I'm nearby the area (including two days ago) it disappoints, including the time I climbed it and the clouds parted for no more than 15 minutes whilst I was on top. On the other hand, I've done some part-time work in a Shinjuku office, up on around the 30th floor of a building, and Fuji has been fully visible for each of the half dozen times I was there (albeit seen as very small, far in the distance). As the other guy wrote though, winter does tend to be the better season for viewing.
Thanks for the volcano walk Gabe. Was there but only swam in the warm river at the side of the road. Lake Arenal is manmade for hydroelectric purposes. Many villages were flooded. If you noticed it has a green hue to it. Blessings to you. Happy, safe, prosperous travels in 2021.
You are a lucky bastard, Gabriel, to have your lifestyle...... but you created your own luck.
Yeah I kind of envy his free as a bird lifestyle too.
Wow, I've seen a lot of videos around La Fortuna, I've even been there, but never saw that hot springs resort. Thanks for sharing, it looks amazing. Happy New Year!
Hi Gabriel. I have enjoyed your tavel channel for sometime and was glad to see you visiting my home country of Costa Rica. I hope you enjoy your visit and if you need anything while you are here please reach out. Keep up the great videos ! Wish you the best for 2021 !
Because of gabriel places like this will be recommended by websites like TripAdvisor. .. as top 10 places to visit in this year. Thank you gabriel 👍 👍
Greetings from morocco
hello🖐🖐🖐
They do have some REALLY impressive nature in Costa Rica. The culture is cool too :)
Gabe so do you recommend travelling at the moment? Is it cheaper and less crowded ? Or is it too risky with the constant changing of restrictions everywhere? Enjoying these videos
I have tickets now and am interested in the answer too
Charlton Heston in the Costa Rican Jungle :D
That looks beautiful! Happy 2021 Gabe!
I hiked for about 10 days to use my imagination at Everest base camp. I know the feeling.
Really really cool man. This is amazing to see and a place I never think to visit.
wow u hit the jackpot on this place. Thanks for the wonderful tour!! Happy New Year!!
Happy new year. Stay wild and free
Gab I wish you a Happy New Year and have a wonderful journey
Costa Rica is known for its incredible national parks, where tourists can enjoy some thrilling activities like river rafting, canyoning, cave tubing, and zip lining. The food is also really good and not that expensive.
Thanks for sharing your travel adventures. What a perfect way to end 2020! Baldi Hot Springs envy... Lake Arenal had a fabulous zip line through the treetops when I was there years ago. Don’t miss it, if you have the opportunity and weather permits. Happy New Year, Sylvia
Amazing for the price! WOW , thank you Gabe!!!
Awasome water falls & pools
Wow, came across your channel and enjoyed watching.. I would like to visit this place... I love those hot spring pools. 👍
WOW Gabe, the hot springs were other-worldly. I lived in that area of Costa Rica I would be there every week. It could qualify as a man-made wonder of the world.
The hot springs place look amazing.
Thanks for the video and pura vida ✌️🇨🇷
Hi.. Gabriel.. Amazing video.. Mille Grazie 🍀
Cool resort. How much to stay overnight there?
Not sure but I bet it's pretty expensive.
Hi Gabriel, It's a shame they don't have a path to the Volcano see you can see that clearly, it would be a much better attraction. Those hot springs are fantastic what a beautiful way to relax and unwind and it wasn't even crowded which made it even better.
That jungle looks Awesome.I take it you managed not to step on any poisonous snakes!
venomous, not poisonous
I Will say it How I want to Thanks
Nice resort / Wow
Great video Tabacon and Baldi are my 2 fav Hot Springs in Central America
Wow wow wow, what a nice place .
Thanks for sharing and enjoy your adventure. Keep safe. 🙏🥰💜💐🎅🎄☃️🦌❄🥂
I think it's time for you to do Australia Gab.
Your adventurous spirit doesn't make you think about some risks, but did you have an internet signal on your cell phone in that isolated area of the volcano? What would happen if someone suffered a broken ankle in that desolation?
Especially when you walk alone
Epic find with those pools, sir! I'm wondering, does your T-Mobile plan work ok in Costa Rica?
Happy New Year, Gabriel!
Safe and fruitful journeys Gabriel! Does Costa seem fairly safe as far as the global pandemic is concerned? We were thinking of going!
Yes it is... everyone is wearing their masks and you are not allowed to enter any store, building without it.. also social distancing is enforced.. Also our health system is one of the best on the world ( believe or not, you can google it) so you can be sure that you are going to be safe if you take the right measures yourself as well - Have a luck in your trip to CR!!
Happy New Year!! Stay safe !!
17:00 Wow!! The ancient Roman baths must have provided a similar experience.
Happy new year Gabe i wish you all the best 🙏
That hot spring spa looks amazing!!!!
Happy New Year!
happy new year, happy travels 2021
Great hot springs resort! Walking thru that jungle with only sandals on with poisonous snakes in the area looks risky. Curious if you’ve had any snake bites etc in your travels?
stamping your feet while walking drives snakes away....that's what we do in Australia
There's another youtuber I watch who 9 times out of 10 says at the start of his videos, "Watch 'til the end." That would definitely apply to this video as that Baldi Spa looked amazing ... and I agree THIS is why I might go to Costa Rica. I've always heard good things about CR but I've been underwhelmed by what you've shown so far, and the prices of things, but this seems to make up for it and now you're Even Steven.
is the weather always that unsettled?
I thought it would be scorchio!
Theres wet season and dry season, dry season begins around january til june, and it's very sunny and hot all day,
Happy New Year to you Gabriel and keep up with these great adventures. Thanks.
Happy new year Gabriel, stay safe btw the video is beautiful, it seems this country has lots of lush greenaries situated everywhere but I wonder that weather is unclear is it normal throughout the year because it's not the monsoon time.
That looks like so much fun. It appears, to me anyways, that Costa Rica might be one of those underestimated travel destinations.
Is there any way we can more closely experience these videos so we can effectively live our lives vicariously through Gabriel? Maybe we need a tunnel like in "Being John Malkovich", called "Being Gabriel Traveler". Then we can hang out in Costa Rica while we are supposed to be working our 9-5 jobs. That was a weird thought. Cool music in the video.
I lived in South America for years and miss being able to do what I want to do while being in foreign countries. Keep it up and happy new year!
Great video, i especially loved the ambient music you selected
Enjoyed the tour ! Wish I could join you sir !
Wow so beautiful 😍
1.2.3 4 😆😄
Happy New Year Gabe 😍 ❤❤❤
Happy New Year Suru, have a great 2021. :)
So jealous right now, lol, totally awesome 👍✌️🥂
Is there no tics and leeches there ? Careful with top off etc imo
you should get a drone Gabriel :D
Happy new year👏👍🎉😄
Hi Gabriel I really loved watching your Costa Rica vlogs. How’s the road condition driving around La fortuna?
Pretty good
I believe the correct adjective for that hot springs is 'tight'.
happy new year
Definitely I should travel there, thanks for the advice
Baldi is amazing, me and my mother try to go as much as we can since it's not that far from San Jose.
They changed that whole place around and made it much more expensive. You could go and sit and watch the volcano erupt and that’s how the water was heated. Looks way more commercialized but that’s what I heard. I hate to see how ugly Jaco got. That used to be the spot and it was tiny now I’m sure it’s way commercialized all by Europeans. Great video Gabe enjoy bro!!
Wow. Looks amazing. This could be my next trip. Currently in Mexico YouTubing.
You could follow Gabriel around or you could go somewhere else that's cool.
Was considering going there but looks like everything there has a price tag. Will wait until I win the lottery. Go to Ecuador. I might be there soon or wait till India opens back up.
Yeah, Costa Rica is not cheap.
Gabriel that was great and definitely in my taste, I love the jungle and the humidity. So I'm assuming that these travels have not been troublesome with requirements of vaccines yet? What have you heard if anything? I followed a TH-cam channel of a couple who traveled in a Toyota T100 4x4 and built a very ugly overhead camper on purpose and they traveled all the way from Alaska to the United States crossing to Mexico and then all the way down to where you're at now and I believe a little bit farther. I was going to move to Hawaii because of the lush jungle sides of the Big Island but the moving costs are really high and now when covid came in I changed my mind but now I'm considering driving a four-wheel drive truck with a camper like that young couple. the way I'm starting to see things with this whole covid thing is to really begin enjoying this life before they begin to demand you show proof of a vaccination like they are doing in Scotland and I believe Ireland. My heart goes out to those people and I hope that many will stand up against a forced vaccine because from everything that I have been hearing and seeing it is a global control matter with the great reset involvement. Also did you have to get or were required to get some kind of vaccinations for going into the jungle and countries like Costa Rica which are tropical? I'm not referring to a covid vaccine either.
Nope, I haven't had to get any kinds of vaccinations for this entire trip the past six months.
That $36 / night dollar resort would easily be over $150 in our country, the USA. 😳😱
Hope you stay there more than one night.
He didn't say you can stay there for 36 Dollars? I'm sure that's just for access to the pool for a day?
Yes that was just for using the hot springs, not for lodging.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos I see. Thanks for the clarification. Gabriel, would you know how much that posh place, with all the cool pools, charges per night?
No I didn't ask them but it's called Baldi in La Fortuna, might be possible to find prices online. I just looked on booking.com but it didn't come up there.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Got it! Thank you for being ever so responsive. Safe journeys on!
I’m Costa Rican and I feel so sad! U could not see the volcano clearly bc of the clouds. Yes blame global warming. We never had rain in December in fact rainy season used to stop late November. actually on Dec 30th where my mom lives in Costa Rica we had 2 hours of INTENSE raining something that we even would not see in the real period of rainy season. Where I live now in Vancouver Canada is the opposite, I feel we are having a very warm winter that I HAD NEVER seen before. My sister who works as a biology teacher in Costa Rica tells me that governments around the world every year keep saying that they will start healing the planet but does nothing. When it rains in the periods when it should not be raining foods like coffee plantations get damage. And that is what is going to happen to food around the world. Everything will
be damage when it rains when it should not rain. It should not be raining right now .
🤣 There's no such thing as healing the planet, with such monstrosities as human beings at the top of the food chain....
Why do you think deforestations happen? Overpopulation? Fast fashion? Everyone needing a high quality of life?
We're doomed. It's not a question of IF it'll happen, just WHEN.
We won't go back to being farmers / living off the land. We all want the best of the very best.
Good morning.
English is basically our second language haha
Did that sign say free Toucan to take home?
Costa Rica is by far one of the most beautiful countries on the planet! I want to go back so badly!
Oh my god oh my god I love it so much I love it so much it's so awesome that's so awesome so cool
There is definitely money in motion in CR.
Next time if you come to India, visit Andaman and nicobar islands and north east India🇮🇳🇮🇳
I visited the Andamans in 2006, would love to explore the northeast.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Good to hear.
Baldi is the BEST!
Thats an amazing video. Love to see your vlog. Keep inspiring us to make awesome video. ❤❤ Watch our new vlog too...
Did you see any Sloths?
Yes, in a very unexpected place. It will be in an upcoming video.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Thank you... Cant wait to see
Dude you get around
bad weather :(
Cool jungle hike. The thing is, I don't think the weather gets "better" over there. There are some areas in Costa Rica that are in constant rain.
Oh my god bro that's my favorite is jungle Oh my god bro that's my favorite is jungle and waterfalls and monkeys bro your life is so amazing it's really amazing bro The aliens are probably going to abduct you now you know that right because of all the places you've been will be like let's take this 1 to another planet
Please don`t shake camera so much Gabriel
Yes I agree! I love watching his videos but I had to turn this one off unfortunately midway because it was making me nauseous from all the fast camera motions everywhere☹️
@@huggingkarma I know. My wife and I love Gab and have been following for quite a while but the constant movement of the camera is giving us headaches. Don't know how to tell him without hurting his feelings.
@@garywilson1688 honest feedback does no harm imo our intention is not to hurt anyone as I’m sure he probably wasn’t aware. Reminds me of those who prefer the fast spin rides at theme parks vs those who can’t tolerate them. Another travel vlogger did his video like this too recently. Couldn’t watch much of it either unfortunately☹️
No worries guys. Was it when I was running through the jungle? Parts of the video were sped up. Feel free to let me know at which points in the video it got too shaky and hard to watch, for example at 9:45, then I can take a look and see what specifically you're referring. I certainly do want my videos to be watchable so feedback is appreciated.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Yea. 9:45 is a good example. Also at other times when you are moving the camera around as if you were looking around like around 6:55 and 7:40. Another example is like in the 'First Impressions of COSTA RICA' video around the 0:50 mark where you are showing the room. I think it's the quick movement that makes it difficult to watch. I wonder which camera you are using in those shots? It seems like the effect wasn't as bad in your earlier vlogs but to be honest it was occasionally there too. Your shots where you mount the camera and walk by like at the 7:20 mark are great. As well, when you are walking and your camera doesn't move from side to side are great also. Overall I think it's the quick movements that can give us vertigo. I know when I film that I purposely try to slow my movements down when I am panning but it still seems like I move too fast. Hope this helps. Overall you do a great job. You should patent your 'dive in the water' technique.
HELL NO! I am not going in that water, lol
Latin america is not on my travel list....
First ?
Thank you for your profound thought provoking comment! 🤣
You got it.