Casa Mafalda Jaco

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... El Indio is the best.

Lots of hanging around for the "ferry" - a lancha with cover & massive 200hp outboard which was stretched to capacity on the trip to Drake Bay. The book fails to mention this service - it's $15 and leaves about 11am though best to go in at least an hour or two before to reserve your slot.

Was a fun & beautiful hour's trip and we even stopped to check out a croc sunbathing on the way. Prepare to get wet as beach landing!

... to get to the free beach access and aa slightly shorter one returning from the main park entrance which was closer to the action - worth investing 2-3 bucks each way on a taxi.

The Whales Tail, a rocky promontory shaped as described, was supposedly good for snorkelling but trying to get to the outside edge was risky on the large expanse of jagged rock, yet alone trying to enter in all that surge - you would need fins with booties and to be brave or stupid ...

... the Moutain of Death.

The Moutain of Death is a mountain range on the InterAmerican Highway that got that name long before cars were around when people used to cross this moutain range by foot, horse, or donkey. Many people died back then and this moutain was almost the dealth of poor Wesley as well! We barely made it over the pass as Wesley was sputtering, blowing smoke, and wouldn´t go over 40 kms. We even pulled over and Devin replaced the fuel filter as ...

... beach. There were sloths, monkeys, iguanas, agoutis and I am sure many more that we did not spot. It was now time to drive to San Jose and for my mum to take her plane back to freezing Europe...meanwhile I was stuck for two days in San Jose. Indeed, I was simply hoping to show up at the airport to accompany my mum and get a same day flight for anywhere in South America. It did not happen that way due to my plan not taking into account one very important piece of data: it ...

... home, held several semi-lucid conversations before getting in bed. The ears are still a bit gluey but no longer infected and so I am back surfing after a frustrating week on the sidelines. I hope can all learn something from this cautionary tale. I have learnt that knowing where the nearest emergency care is is more important than having an emergency bottle of scotch handy (both is good of course) and that some lady doctors have very nice eyes...but that's a different story...

... trees and get to watch our guide making animal and bird calls for 4hours. Very amusing, although completely ineffective! Rob and I had few nights out in the hip hop and not so happening little down of Santa Elena, Rob was sad to discover that in salsa clubs it is best to salsa and that there are rules to salsa not that this stopped him from bopping around all the locals having their Firday night disco. Left Monteverde yesterday am, Rob and Nick ...

... who came to Costa Rica 4 or 5 years ago with his wife and a daughter. The following day we left the town of San Isidro De El General and in spite of all the plans that we had and all the recommendations we received, we finish on the border with Panama. We wanted to have gone to the national park El Corcovado but we needed to travel through 75 Km. to the entrance of the park, and it would take some three hours more or less to get there we were told; and it was drizzling. (As you can ...

... Discman hooked up to some pretty big box speakers, with some Rube Goldberg electronics in between; it works well. We are listening to a CD of big hits from the 70's and 80's. Presently it's Franki Valli singing "Grease ". Its hard to tell if everyones heads are bopping to the music or its just the road condition. This last ride is on the worst dirt road you could imagine. We go through dips that make the bus "yaw" to the point you think we will tip over; of ...

Jaco Beach is on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is an up and coming hotspot. After the 6 hour bus ride, we are going Direct Bus from now on. We stopped every five minutes to let someone off and on. It was crazy. Jaco was a small town with a great beach, and the perfect surf wave for novice ...