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Bus Ride Through the Jungle
... me aside to "hook me up". I finally catch a shuttle over to the Holiday Inn Express, where my shuttle to Tamarindo will pick up at 3:55 for a 4.5 hour ride. Little do I know, we are in Costa Rica now, where time is meaningless and a 4.5 hour ride does not mean 4.5 hours. In the meantime, I grab a bite at the only place around to eat which is a Denny's and discover a hamburger is $18.
While waiting for the bus, I meet my new ...
So long, Farwell...
... after several minutes of waiting and our orders were taken. We were keeping an open mind to some good food; however, once again we were greatly disappointed. The food was not good, there was something hard in the olive/muscle appetizer and you couldn’t eat the muscles due to not being cleaned and having some part of barnacle material on it. The main course wasn’t much better. After finishing we went back to our rooms and called it a night. ...
Casita Margaritha!
... But the
reality is that I make a living off tourism so I need to go where the
gringos are! That said, although there are many gringos here, and
Canadians, there are also many Europeans and South Americans! In all a
much more international flavor and that shows up in things such as nice
architecture and clean streets. The store is ...
Playa del Coco to Tamarindo
Up early, and on the road by 7:30 am. Our destination is another beach about 40km down the shore as the crow flies, however nothing is as straight forward as that! We had to catch the 8:00 am bus from Playa del Coco back to Liberia, about an hour and a half trip. We then caught the 10:00am bus for Tamarindo, and that was a two and a half hour trip.....we must have hit every beach along the coast! And to top it off, it was not ...
Welcome to Malibu... aeh... Tamarindo...
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." Samuel Johnson [...] And what felt like one hour later we were woken by the noisy chatting of 3 american girls next to our duplex bungalow. We didn't trust our eyes when we checked the time: 6:30 am. We know now, more or less everything about there childhood, high school time and love life... But even Jens is sooooo ...
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