El Jardin Del Eden Tamarindo

... tour agencies and souvenier stands. It gained it's popularity in a surf movie, The Endless Summer, which boosted it from a small, 30-family fishing village to it's current state. It´s an interesting place, and definately different than other places we´ve been recently. <br><br>True to our recent form, we spent the first day and a half vegging out on the beach, exploring the town, and John even tried surfing again (and, once again, did quite ...

... and there is no on there, its beautiful little place and it was pumping, by the time we got out of the van and unloaded the van, it picked up more than we thought...it took like 20 min to paddle out, a bit rocky...it took awhile to just get situated on the board to paddle out, but we finally made it out passed the break, and then I just laid on my board, exhausted for like 15 minutes watching people get pummeled on their way out. So I finally paddled in a little closer and ...

Well yesterday was full of Shoulder pain, but I did catch some waves, the swell is almost totally diminished, but they are calling for more later today and tomorrow, We had another 6am session this morning, ugh and NO waves, it was silly I went out for punishment because of staying out late last night. 6am comes soooo quickly. Waves were so small, Carlos was like "you should have stayed in bed....no waves" But we ended up still going out and ...

... the crew and set sails south with them. I have a friend's wife who is going to be in Playa Guiones and the Capt decided to check that beach out and take me along for the ride. Not quite sure what I'm getting myself into but I'm pretty excited.

... but I also have the pain in my boob. Ay carumba! Anyhoo, hung out with the Canadian couple some more and found out they were going north to the beaches I was planning on checking out next so they offered to take me with them the next morning in their jeep. I also ended up having dinner with them that evening in Tamarindo and had a great time checking out Playa Conchal. Plus, just getting to bounce along in the jeep was an experience to be had. I rented ...

Left Monteverdi this morning to go towards the Arenal Volcano, this consisted of a 42 km drive to the town of Tilaran.On the internet we had read that this would be a better approach route to Monteverdi than the one that we used, all I can say is that if we did not have four wheel drive we would not have made it at all. The road was full of potholes, washed out roads, streams crossing the road and quite a few ...

... live toucan in all of these tropical paradises and jungles but the darn bird still eludes me!!!! That was a big reason why Siobhan wanted to go to the nature hike to see one of these beautiful birds, but alas, I will have to wait for another time...again :-( . After our disappointing hike, we came back for a sandwich and a short nap before going to do the canopy tour. This was the whole reason behind coming to Monteverde as we had been ...

... little troupe of white faced capuchin monkeys feeding on palm fruits right at the edge of the forest and low above the water. One little one would run out on a frond actually over the river then turn around and scamper back, the suggestion was that he was looking for insects or spiders. They were far more active and scampering than the howler monkeys we have seen, which have the reputation as the second laziest mammal in Costa Rica. Our wildlife guide was ...

May 6 to Weds May 9 Yeah it is travel with hangover day! We have to catch a 9am bus to Santa Cruz so we can catch 3 more buses on our way to Monte Verde. We are a little slow moving and have to run out of the hotel because we think our bus is coming. Luckily it is the wrong one and we can sit on the curb and relax. The next bus comes by says he can take us direct to Monte Verde and it is only $5 bucks each. Can this be true? We shall see. The ...

... but it died about two hours later. So we moved over to check out the waves where the beginners were. The surf wasn't much better and there were beginners everywhere littering the waves. We called it a day and hung out on the beach with the girls till sunset. Surfing went quite well, I'm getting into the grove. The plan was to rest up a bit in our room, have a few drinks there, then grab dinner and then see ...