Blogs from Quepos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 8

Hellooooo. From the jungle we got on a bus at 6 am and went back to Puerto Jiminez to wait for the water taxi for 5 hours and then from Golfito on a bus 3 seperate times until we finally arrived in Uvita in the dark. We got a room at a cool little hostel and met our roomate from North Carolina who later travelled further with us. Uvita was a town with spread apart different sections and you had to pay $6 to enter the beach so the next morning we jumped on the bus and went a bit further to Dominical with April. The 3 of us found the only room we could at a very nice new hotel and spent the day touring Domincal which was a nice surfer town. We also had ... read more

So last night I was on our balcony and i was like ho-hum guess no monkeys for me, I was relaly hoping I would get one on our balcony. Even last night both Jay and I woke up once each in the middle of the night to peak on a banan we had left out. Then at about 5.30 I wa sup and couldn't sleep anymore and I looked outside and there was an amazing sunrise so I opened the door and there it was a monkey in the tree across from us, it was a mono titi, an andangered monkey that they said was rare to see, Oh my heart started racing and I called Jay and then we both went nuts, throwing out bananas and trying to capture the monkeys, then I realised Elena ... read more

A monkey was on our balcony today……and WE WERE NOT HERE! How do I know? Because I left a banana on the ledge and for the two hours that we went out for lunch we came back and found a banana peel on the floor - how do you like that, eat and leave trash behind! Oh well I am hopeful that the new banana I put out will secure me an up close encounter with a monkey. We did go to Manuel Antonio Park today, we hired a tour guide who without we would never of spotted three different varieties of bats, two and three toed sloths, crazy neon colored bugs but I was the one who spotted the white faced monkey! The best part was once we saw one, we then saw about 5 ... read more

Finally! Leaving the grim sweatbucket that is San Jose behind in a trail of bus dust, Rich and I forged towards the megalopolis of Jaco on the coast. To my dismay I found it to be a dingy , uncomfortable place full of seedy locals trying to sell cocaine on every corner. As Rich was still recovering from his bout of what was apparently tonsilitis (according to the obese Dr. Jose Jiminez), we decided just to chill out for a day or two before moving on. Wow that couldn't have come soon enough! We decided a place further down the coast called Manuel Antonio should be our next destination, but on the way we spotted a small village called Esterillos de Oeste and made a last second dash for the bus door to see what the ... read more

Waterslide Picnic Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Quepos By Chris y NikkiMarch 18th 2007Chris and Nikki Before we left for Playa Hermosa / Punta Mala, our Tico family decided to take everyone to another ranchero for the day. We spent the day playing washers, soccer, eating and of course sliding down the waterslide (tobogán en español). The highlight of the day was Jamie's head injury when he tried to do a front sommersault (sp?) off the slide. He put his head down at the last second and his forhead knicked a little bump on the slide and split open. Lots of blood, talk of stitches...b... read more