Cabinas Playa Las Manchas Montezuma

... not a drop of rain in sight, so I hightailed it straight to the beach- Playa Grande, to be exact, which is about a 40 minute walk from town. The coastline is breathtaking; there are enormous waves breaking constantly on clusters of rocks that are separated by stretches of sandy beach. Playa Grande itself is about 1Km long and at low tide, it seems like it's that wide as well! It's perfect for swimming and surfing, and is the main attraction for ...

... like some swamp monster, especially from the German girls from the night before who saw me back at the hostel. God knows what they were thinking after the antics last night as well. Probably thought I was some whack job Australian!
I washed off in the sea and we headed up for some food, watch the local Saturday afternoon soccer game and spent the rest of the afternoon swimming and playing rugby on the beach.
We headed out to dinner with Ben the yank and then ...

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We proberen ons toch maar een beetje te vermaken. Vandaag zijn we een B weg ingeslagen langs het strand en zijn een stuk wezen toeren. Het reizen per auto is ook weer even wennen na twee maanden bussen. Op een enorm strand van zes kilometer lang hebben we onze badlakens uitegrold en zijn we de koele zee ingedoken. Heleen heeft enorme mooie schelpen gevonden en tot laat ...

... I'll pass on that one then.

Next week I'll be making my way to the Caribbean coast once again to meet up with a few others, a little town called Cahuita with a big rastafarian influence.  ooohhhh dreadlock rasta here I come!!!!!!!!!!

So now I'm off for another day, I here some 60 pence cans of Imperial calling my name...

"yeah hold on, I'm on my way, bring a friend I feel thirsty"........

Bye bye and peace out from chilled Montezuma xxx

 

... to check out the nightlife. Basically around 10:00 one bar raises the music level and the people move out into the street. It's very "tranquilo" and very much what you would expect from a surfer's town. As usual, there were people getting drunk, but pretty much everyone has a laissez faire attitude that no one really cares what you do. Pretty refreshing, actually. The ATM is still down.

... at the beach and some food and bevvies by the seaside. Day 2 we decided to check out the waterfalls just outside of the village. After about a 10 minute walk alongside (and through) a creek we emerged at a pool of water fed by a 100 foot waterfall. This one was pretty cool because you could climb on some rocks and get underneath the waterfall. We swam here for a bit and then followed a path up through the jungle which took us above the waterfall we were ...

... shared a cabin. It was only $8 US dollars a night! The shower was an outside shower. It was too short for me so I had to use the other one with the bathroom, next to the shared kitchen.

Every night louds things would hit the roof. I finally figured out that it was from the monkeys in the trees, the fruit was falling when the monkeys were climbing around in them. There was all kinds of interesting things like that, like when it ...

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Humidade, Calor, Suor... Pffff, banho frio!!! 5 Minutos depois, Humidade, Calor, Suor, só mesmo debaixo da ventoinha do quarto!!! Ainda assim a caminhada na praia de manhã, almoço de "casado com chuleta" acompanhado com a "Imperial" (prato típico e cerveja nacional da Costa Rica ...

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