Hotel Talamanca Pococi Puerto Limon

... which is so unlike him, and talked to a nice ranger who couldn´t give a **** about when we paid. It was all rather odd.

Anyway, we ended up hanging around with this american dude who had signed himself up for a month in this place before he´d even seen it and was starting to regret it, as once you´ve seen the park there isn´t a lot left to do and he realised there wasn´t a cash point. The nearest bank was 3 hours away by bus and boat. Oops.

Well, I will start off by saying I just finished writing this whole entry only to have it deleted as I was trying to save it.... so here is my second attempt! I have been spending this week in Quepos and Manuel Antonio taking half of a TEFL (Teaching English as a Forgein Language) Course. At the end I recieve a certificate that will allow me to teach English in any country and get paid for it. This will give me another option after I finish my year here. The course is ...

... And thank goodness as no sooner had we clambered back on board a small Cayman of maybe only a foot long swam past, shortly followed by what could have been his mother of 2 meters long!!!!! Arriving back in limon having passed the man who should have been dredging the river fast asleep on his boat we jumped into a taxi to take us to Cahuita via the sloth sanctuary.

... bussen kørte til Limón. Vi skulle egentlig have været til San José, men på det her tidspunkt tog vi bare "hvad der var". Bussen var propfyldt som sædvanlig, og vi svedte og var helt udmattede efter den kaotiske start på dagen. Turen tog 3½ time og så var vi i Limón. Busterminalen var fyldt med mennesker, men vi fik fundet et ledigt bord og så gik det ellers stærkt med at få fundet et toilet, mad at få med i bussen og få købt billetter. Vi kunne ikke få siddepladser i ...

... mlhavo. Videli jsme orly, zabky, ktere rychle skakali, tak jsem nestacil udelat snimky. Podarilo se mi ulovit aspon par fotek housenky a rostlin. ;) Odpoledne jsme vyrazili na canopy tour, coz je specialni aktivita, kdy se pomoci lan presunujete nad dzungli az 200 metru nad zemi . :) Pak jsme se slanovali a cekal nas taky tarzanovo lano, coz byl ...

... but they had a nice little certificate on the wall from GAP so it seems to me there´s quite a strong affiliation (i.e. GAP deals with them exclusively). A few of us signed up for that evening´s Arenal volcano hike, dinner and trip to the Baldi hot springs. The price the company gave us was $38, where as the price listed on the hotel´s board was $55. We were picked up at 4pm and driven to a little reserve where we could look over at the ...

... a cheapo hotel (with possibly the thinnest walls on my trip so far) and went out for food. Limon seemed a bit of a dodgy place after dark to be honest - for some the in-thing to do is to drink too much , then take a nap in the street or hang around and shout rather aggressively at tourists - the guidebook advised against going drinking in the bars and to stick to the ...

... another bus station. A stop in a town called Turrialba and another city I can't remember. I said that's fine. Well, another lesson learned, because we drove for nearly 40 minutes outside the city! Then he charged me $40 US dollars!! That's A LOT in Costa Rica. Like a dollar a minute, no way. I didn't know what to do though, I just gave him the money. I learned after this a couple things - ask how far away it is, roughly how much it will ...

After crossing through various country roads from the volcano, i finally arived in Puerto Limon. The town itself has not much to offer, but is good for shopping, internetting and so forth. Also about 10 km towards San Joses dirction, there are lots of transportation companys. So here i checked for further offers to ship my car to south america. Result: only container and the price is around 1400 to 1700 USD. hmmm , not my favorite!

... a small group of us that went white water rafting. We got picked up at 6:30am by the rafting company in San Jose and then took a two hour ride towards the Atlantic to the Pacuare River (stands for hummingbird). The Pacuare river has class III and IV rapids. The actual rafting time was four hours (including a 1 hour lunch), so we get a lot of rafting time. To sum it up, it was beautiful and ton of fun. The water wasn't that cold and ...