Had a very brief explore of the village this morning, brief as it´s absolutely tiny!! Just a crossroads basically with a few bars and restaurants and one club...Chico´s!! Would definately be hitting that for Tashas birthday evening extravaganza. A guide book even described the atmosphere at night as "banging". This we had to see. Em bought a book from the local store as her last one got RUINED by the stupid tidal wave (which we shall refer to it as), and the ex-book was no longer exchangeable at hostels as it was cover and backless. Grabbed Tasha from the hostel and [View Full Entry]

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So last night Tasha opened her cards and presents which was nice... got some money from Tasha, a bracelet from the Chapmans and a flipflop charm from Emily (very appropriate! :) We headed to the nearby Soda for birthday breakfast of Gallo Pinto ( rice and beans), sausages and eggs - definate hang over cure we feel! We then went to try and find this pretty waterfall we were told about so headed off down the beach with Sandra in tow. We soon found that we had picked up a couple of strays too. (there are soo many stray dogs out [View Full Entry]

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Today was a terrible day. Terrible. The word can´t be repeated enough. Lets start at the beginning. Got up at 5am (!) to catch the 6am bus next to the hostel. Saw a lovely sunrise, but the bus was half an hour late. 1.5 hours and one incredibly whiney child and smelly man later, our bus arrived at Paquera, dropping us to catch the Ferry, which was fine fine fine and we arrived at Punta Arenas on mainland at 10.15. Now, riddle me this; why would the harbour arrange for a boat to come from south of the peninsula to mainland [View Full Entry]

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Hello All! Today's entry is probably going to be significantly shorter then the last two because we didn't do much today. We woke up sometime in the early morning to some howling type noises. Since we have yet to see howler monkeys we decided to go check it out. but alas, no luck. After a thorough investigation we concluded that the noise we heard must have been birds :( i know, but we will see some monkeys for sure next week. I believe we are going to go either to Cahuita to go hiking, or to the sloth sanctuary on Monday [View Full Entry]

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So after waking with a slight hangover we headed straight for Mojos again for a yummy buritto breakfast! yumm!! We then checked out of our hostel and lugged our bags (which we believe somehow are getting heavier - maybe from all the bugs that are crawling into them every night) to the bus stop. Going by our trusty travel bible we thought we would only have to wait half hour for the bus. Turns out we arent as bright as we thought and the bus wasnt for another hour and a half! so we made ourselves comfortable and waited! As the [View Full Entry]

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So today was an early start! we wanted to go to the national park before catching a bus to San Jose. When we got to the park it was pretty quiet and we only had to pay a donation which was really good too! We wondered along a trail that followed the beach which was cool as we got to see the waves and the sand but also the jungle. First Sighting, claimed by Sandra: Monkeys! We could just about see a couple of them above us in the trees having their breakfast! Second sighting, claimed by Tasha: TOUCANS!! Tasha spotted [View Full Entry]

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Big breakfast start to the day today, looking out on a balcony over San Jose - its probably not one of the most picturesque sights we´ve seen so far!! Headed to the bus station to catch the 12.30 bus to Quepos. 3 hours of a hot and steamy bus ride later, we were nearing our destination. As we pulled up to a bus station and the word Quepos seemed to be on a few signs outside, we assumed we were in the right place!! Off we got, went to get our luggage and we were told to get back on by [View Full Entry]

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Hello readers! Today has been soooo much better then yesterday. Myles and i woke up around 7:30am to the sound of the ocean and the wide array of birds that live here. After several attempts to go back to sleep we decided that the noise (being still enjoyable) was too loud. Since we hadn't eaten yet we started getting dressed to head to town. As we were finishing up we ran into the man who manages the property were we are staying. His name is Hernan, and he is really personable. He was more then happy to answer any questions we [View Full Entry]

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Woke up in our steamy tent bright and early this morning - bright as the sun rises at 5am-ish and early because other people are NOT quiet in the morning!! We went for breakfast at a gorgous cafe called Mojo's where tasha had a breakfast burrito and em had sweet french toast. We are officially in LOVE with Costa Rican coffee it is so good!! We gulped this down and then headed further into town to hire bikes. Got them cheap from a friendly old man, who teased us about our useless Spanish...must learn more!! Initially a bit wobbly on bikes [View Full Entry]

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Happy after finally receiving the right stamp Just when I was about to leave Leon in Nicaragua I met a guy from the U.S. He liked my plan of taking the local buses to Costa Rica. So he decided to join me. We had to change bus several times before we got to the border with Costa Rica. At the Nicaraguan side we got the exit stamp and on the Costa Rican side we received the stamp to enter Costa Rica, at least that is what we thought. From the border we took a bus in the direction of the town [View Full Entry]

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