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Tamagringo
... great but .. I dunno, they look better underwater. Anyway so our process of elimination/rationalisation went something like this:
Tamarindo was called ‘Tamagringo’ for a reason. Theres some decent tourist infrastructure set up there. The Catalina Islands, renown for their diving are accessible from both Tamarindo and Playa del Coco. There’s not a lot in Play del Coco and the beach is **** (not my words). Samara’s ‘okay’. Beach ...
Road Trip
... areas. When we arrive at Playa Tamarindo, we parked in the open public beach parking lot, there were police monitoring the area so I felt we were very safe and the car was secure. The beach area was very big; it was low tide so that did vastly increase the area of sand to lie out on. We took turns going into the water, not wanting to leave all our stuff on the beach without someone watching it. There were ...
Party TIme
... boat around to another spot. While we were waiting for our gear to be set up we had a light snack and watched rays jumping out of the water doing flips. It was quite spectacular. The second dive was not as good as the first as we didn't see much. We got back to hostel at about 1.30pm had subway for lunch and then a quick siesta. We were going to go deep sea fishing the next day but it ended up been to expensive so we just chilled on the beach again. The next day it was time to move ...
Playa del Coco to Tamarindo
... We arrive in Santa Elena on 17 March. We have also booked every day from today until the 17 March, something we have never done, so it feels a bit "restrictive" that we are tied into a real schedule, as opposed to flying, (I should say bussing!) by the seat of our pants!! So far we have a week scheduled in Panama City, but have left three days open so we can leave if the big city gets too hectic!!
Okay, next stop, San Jose.....see ...
Welcome to Malibu... aeh... Tamarindo...
... offered nothing than the earlier mentioned greyish waters and every few hundred metres a pipe leading from land to shore... Never a good sign. And then it started to rain. And it stopped only with sunset. And next day, same thing only that the rain started already 11 am. And somehow the grey veil of a little depression sank over us... It was time to consult a tour operator to see how we could get the hell outta he'. The guy in the ...
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