Pura Vida Amigos
Hello from the town of Tamarindo on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. The weather is… well beautiful. It´s currently 9:30pm on Miercoles (wednesday)
Jodes and I arrived last Tuesday into the main city of San Jose. We stayed in the Galileo Hostel just on the outskirts of town. Warm welcomes when we arrived accompanied with Sangrias.
While in San Jose for 2 days we walked all over town visiting the National Museum of Costa Rica, a National Parque in town, a couple fruit and artisan avenues. Lots of buses, motorcycles and friendly people. They sure do like to honk alot here.
We took the public bus out of town heading NW to the town of MonteVerde. We had plans to meet David, a friend and summer roomate from Alaska for Thanksgiving. The 3 of us enjoyed a great dinner and 3 days in this nice green hamlet of a town.
While in MonteVerde the three of us went Ziplining in the trees. We had a blast riding about a dozen cable systems, 5 really long ones approx. 1 km each. The longest zip line had us flying like superman with our feet up. Also we swang like Tarzan.
We visited Santa Elena National Parque which is in a cloud forest. Jodie and I lucked out with Spider Monkey encounters up in the trees and some bird and pretty flower spottings.
We took a guided night tour of the forest to find nocturnal creatures. Spotted a couple sloths, a tarantula, leaf ants, a snake, an assortment of bugs and sleeping birds.
While in Monteverde we also walked the Tree Canopy along bridges. Unfortunately not much wildlife activity that day.
Meals have been casadas, portions of rice and beans with salad variation, veggies and a meat choice. Some times a fried plantain too. All in all the food has been great and flavorful. The ice cream is tasty and even some of the snack food is worth writing about. The coffee yes is good, very good.
After Monteverde we parted with David. Jodie and I headed to La Fortuna via a minivan-boat-minivan. The town of La Fortuna lays at the base of Arenal Volvano. Yes it is active, but during our time there the top was shrouded in clouds. No hot rocks or lava action. But since we were in an active thermal area there was lots of hot springs. The town of La Fortuna is very rich so to speak with a number of resort like places to stay at with private hot springs.
We took a package trip which included an afternoon hike near Arenal, a viewing opportunity for evening lava (no Luck) and then buffet dinner and hot soaks at Baldi Hot Springs. All in All a good time a bit short at the springs. The springs did have some waterslides which were surprisingly scary.
Thats all for now the Internet bar is due to close. I will post-share pictures when I get back to the states.
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