We woke up at 5am to a dog yowling and barking. After investigating, it turned out the the dog was just in his kennel and wanted to get out. Since we were already awake, we decided to try catching the early bus out of town. Since it was a public holiday, no-one could tell us whether or not the buses might be running, but fortunately one turned up at 6am. We changed buses at Liberia and got to Peñas Blancas on the Nicaraguan border. Going throught the border was pretty simple, - as usual there was a kid there who made money by showing the gringos where to go. One we were in Nicaragua, we caught the bus to Rivas. After the cram-packed, cooking hot buses and crappy roads of Costa Rica, the bus was a
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