Hotel Sabalos Boca Sabalos

Back tracking to catch any readers up, on the second day in Granada we were caught in the middle of a down pour, and I mean a soak you to the bone in a matter of seconds down pour, so a family waved us into their store/living room area to wait it out a bit. We bought a bottle of Lizano Salsa, amazing stuff which we have used pretty much everyday since then. That night I got a bad headache and stayed at the hostel while Evan went out to find his cousins friends bar ...

If anyone feels like they urgently need to hear my voice, here is my number: 011-506-8925-7893 Iīll be around until Tuesday with reception. Otherwise, Iīm still trying to figure out how people can leave messages so right now if I donīt have reception it will just say that its not working. Also, donīt be discouraged if a random Costa Rican picks up and you have no idea what sheīs saying-just say "Me llamo ________" and say your name and sheīll let me know you called.

... a huge interest in teaching English and if statistics can be trusted I have a group of 34 adults ready to start next week. The rest of the time I have spent visiting people, provoking monkeys (yes, I have monkeys in my backyard), catching lizards, taking part in meetings, hanging out at the school, hanging out at the pulperia, playing soccer, getting hurt playing soccer, buying 4 ...

... a toothbrush I might buy one, well right now I already have one (though I could see that need arising in the future). What I’m trying to say is what do we really need? I have a small pulperia (remember that is a quasi-general store usually located in someone’s house and when I say small I mean you couldn’t park a Smart Car in it small) which supplies all of my "needs" which at this ...

The answer to that is more complicated than you think. Generally conversations start out with one of two statements. "Man its hot" or “you think it's gonna rain?” In the states that may just be a short conversation starter but here its much more than that, it’s the conversation starter, the conversation and the goodbye all rolled into one. “Man its hot” is usually followed up with, “it hasn’t been ...

... CR claims to be green and ecological and conscient, the fruit industry is still very much poluted. Especially Bananas and pinas.
We stop at the Iguana Inn, a restaurant situated near the river but above all near a tree completely full of iguana's.Iguanas were eaten by the Ticas, it should taste like chicken. But that habit resulted in a lack of iguana's. Now they are protected. The owner of the restaurant started to ...

... wanted to go between Honduras and San Jose but I just didn't have the time to do them all. Oh well. Time to prioritize and I decided that the place I most wanted to go was the Rio San Juan along the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican border. The next question was how to get there. I saw that Tica bus had a route from Tegucigalpa, Honduras to Managua, Nicaragua that left at 9 a.m. and arrived at 5 p.m. I wasn ...

Crossing from Costa Rica to Nicaragua via Los Chiles is relatively simple: - stamp passport (no cues) at Los Chiles - pay exit tax of $1 US - get on the 12pm boat (panga) for Colones 5,000 ($10 per person) During these procedures we managed to spend up to the last Costa Rican Colon as we didnīt want to take small change over the border. Luckily we had some dollars for the tax left which we didnt know about. We even tried to take some dollars out of ...

Just a short note to upload some pictures and to say we decided to move on to Nicaragua. It is raining lightly in Costa Rica today but it will get worse so we dont want to risk getting stuck in Los Chiles where there is nothing to do. The trip to the national park of Caņo Negro is exclusively on a motor boat ($40 for 2 people for 3 hours) which means we would hardly see any ...

... try to visit the park, but given we have to go by boat and its low season, there seems to be a possibility that we wont find a guide or boat to take us. If we dont manage to go to the national park we will push on to Nicaragua. The bus from San Jose left at 5.30 am ($4 per person) and arrived at Los Chiles at 12.30 pm. Its extremely hot and humid here so we have been lazing around in the garden of the hotel and washing our clothes in the room ...