Advertisement
Our treehouse.
It was really nice sleeping outside (w/ a mosquito net) and listening to all the jungle sounds. Make sure y'all are scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page now to see all the photos. The new & (not yet improved) Travelblog has placed ads in between blogs & photos. Everyone needs to make a buck so you can't really blame them right? Just an FYI. 😊
Instead of tacking on back to back long travel days we decided to spend the day here in Uvita & regroup. Plus Flutterby is really great & I could spend days here. And, my twin bed was really comfy, it was cool at night, & I slept great.
We woke up & climbed the stairs out of our treehouse & headed to the kitchen where we found delicious, strong, freshly made coffee. We also were given eggs, bread, tortillas, & told to make whatever we wanted for $3 per person. Lovely. It was nice to cook in such a big kitchen.
We then headed out to the beach. The beach is really pretty & had some good waves & a few surfers. On our walk to the beach we saw a Toucan fly by us & land in the tree next to us. Yes! We did
some good philosophizing on our walk & then headed back to the hostel. There we grabbed some money & headed back to the beach to take the long walk into town. We walked along the beach, crossed a little river & then ended up in town. The town of Uvita is teeny tiny. There are two mini-supers & a couple sodas, houses, & that's it. We walked around town a bit & saw the whole place. We bought a few things to make dinner. It's going to be a basic, but comfort food, dinner. Mac & Cheese & tuna & veggies. Perfect! I've been craving mac & cheese for some reason so there you have it. We bought a few beers for dinner as well. Then we headed to a little restaurant for lunch. We had shrimp rice & a filet of fish cooked in a lot of garlic. Yum.
We walked the shorter way back to the hostel & just about drowned in our own sweat. We are definitely in the jungle. It is sooooo humid & hot & whoa. But we love it, it's just a semi-constant part of our conversation about how hot or sweaty we
A handpainted map of Uvita.
The peninsula is actually shaped like a whale's tail. are at any given moment. It's a little nutso. The walk back to the hostel was peaceful through town.
Back in our treehouse we decided we needed a little tummy time. I'm sure I've mentioned tummy time before. It involves (usually only men, but I was a big fan today since nobody was around) lifting their shirt up to their chest, exposing their tummy, which seems to be used as ventilation when it's too hot. We personally have never tried it before, but let me tell you, it works. Just exposing your tummy & your core temperature seems to drop. At least, that is what we told ourselves. It is soooo hot & humid....Every transplant I've met has told me it takes them 2 years to become accustomed to the heat & humidity. Wow!
Once the sun set & we could breathe again we headed into the common area to work on Geoff's resume (for a random job opportunity that was presented to him, but who knows what will come of it since we aren't home for another month, at least we got the resume out of the way). It's kind of funny how used to communal living
The shower.
It was so cute, we loved that they used broken tiles to create the fish and the stars. we have become. We worked on his resume for a couple of hours while people around us were talking, cooking, drinking, & there was music playing. And we're talking about Geoff's strengths in the business world. It was all a bit surreal. We've definitely learned to be able to do just about anything with just about anyone around.
After the hard work was done we sat around & chatted with the different people here. Always people from all over the world, it's such an education. Eventually we made our comfort food dinner & ate with Baron & Julie. We talked with them about leaving the following day for Bahia Drake & what all that entailed. There's always got to be some bus/boat/taxi coordinating to be done.
After another fun evening we headed to our treehouse to bed. I love the treehouse. It's like playing in a fort.
Advertisement
Tot: 0.332s; Tpl: 0.019s; cc: 16; qc: 49; dbt: 0.2775s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.2mb