Hotel Las Tres Banderas Manuel Antonio National Park

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... a tree trunk bridge & going through the bamboo forest, but turned back just before the fright fork that would have got me to other swimming holes.

Finally back on route, found the falls but the river was so swollen after recent rains I was dubious about going into the main flow & getting washed down to the lower pool from which there was no way out except down. Went in at the smaller side falls which were more sedate.

... figured it was a fuel issue. Now, a few days later, we relize the problem was not Wesley but bad fuel. White smoke, which we were blowing, is a sign of too much water in the fuel. Of course we had to get the bad Diesel right before going over the Moutain of Death! Luckily Wesley is running fine now.

That night we parked in the middle of a pineapple field own buy yours truly, Del Monte. I never thought we would be enjoying Del Monte for it's beautiful sunset's!

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Had to change plans as there was no space at Sirena Ranger Station. Margarita was able to organise alternative route into Corcovado
Got Marvi bus to Sierpe. Stayed in good cabinas and had excellent meal in their restaurant

... we were in Mal Pais there was a car race and a lot of the participants were headed home). While we waited in the line at the ferry, the kids and I got snow cones. Parker got root beer and I got Kola (not to be confused with Cola). The snow cones were good, but they melted very fast in the heat. We made it onto the ferry with no issues, and went to the "air conditioned" salon. The ferry was very full, but the ride was not too long. The weather ...

wir leben noch....sind quer durchs Land unterwegs und haben kaum noch Internet...

Am
Tag von Andreas Ankunft bin ich mit dem Bus zurueck nach San Jose
gefahren, dort ins Taxi umgestiegen zum Flughafen und aufgrund meiner
schamlosen Handelei zum ersten Mal wieder aus dem Taxi rausgeworfen
worden. War wohl doch zu niedrig der Preis...so habe ich dann vom
Strassenrand aus mit meinem Gepaeck etwas vorsichtiger ...

... too late. The following day, Valentine's Day, was also Son's birthday so we were up at the last possible moment to catch a mediocre breakfast before Son opened her sole birthday card from her mum and dad (which I'd faithfully carried with me...). We went online for a bit so Son could catch up with her emails, plenty of nice birthday wishes, and she called home for chat, before we headed to the old city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and most certainly different from ...

... s an Archie and Mehitabel story, "The Lesson of the Moth," in which Archie (a cockroach) asks a moth why he keeps flying toward fires. "Because fire is beautiful, and we are drawn to beauty," the moth explains, before immolating himself on a cigar lighter. As is usually the case with these things, the truth about moths' apparent attraction to light is less poetic, but to me, more interesting than the fiction. I'll see if I can recall the explanation without screwing it ...

... beach who gave us directions on how to get there... we bumped into him later, had a beer and then had our first home cooked meal in three weeks! soo good! the next day we organised to go surfing, brad showed us the wicked "local" break,... very blue crush of us, but it was just too massive... despite it being the best waves i have ever seen! Maria was totally carving it up like a freaking legend... wowing the pants off all the locals... We saw monkeys and crazy ...

Yesterday, we tried our luck and with a small rental car, we drove out to Dominical. It's only a 45km drive out, but consider the bumpy, pot-hole filled roads, not to mention one-way bridges and rivers to cross and you're looking at 2 hours minimum! We heard there was good surf at Dominical, which was the teaser for driving out there in the first place. We were told that there was a river to cross so we went ...