Surf Hotel Buenos Aires Mal Pais

... We took the ticket up the street to the ferry office and paid the toll for the car and bought our tickets. I think the tickets were 845 Colones for adults and about half of that for kids. I can’t remember what the fee for the van was, but I think it was about 10,000 colones.

When we boarded the ferry, Oscar and grandpa went in on the van, but everyone else walked onto the ferry. We all sat together in the Salon. It was a large air ...

... to do something more than go sit on the beach or get bounced around in the Jimmy. Still, it was nice to return to the casita, have some dinner and wine, play cards, stream a little music, and look at the amazing sky. There were so many stars it was difficult to point out the constellations I knew. I'm not sure if this will turn out well, because I have to compress it, but ...

... fly the day after christmas, crazy fight to say the least. Lucas and I went out with our captain tico friend Jeffrey in his 17ft 15 horsepower deep sea fishing boat, incredible, sea snakes, white marlin jumping, dorado, dolphin, leaping eagle rays, sunset, oh and to top it off i snapped lucasī rod in half fighting a small tuna at the end of the ...

... besides Samara is up there on my favorite beach list. Beautiful picture perfect white sand beaches.. love it! The first day there was just spend wandering around. Its a very tiny touristy town there is one bar and only a handful of resturants and tourist stores. On our second day there we did a snorkling tour to Tortuga island... WOW all I have to say.. it was an hour speed boat ride to the first snorkling spot.. the snorkling was ...

So our time in Bocas del Torro was pretty cool before Christmas - we had a pretty good routine of heading to the beach, cooking dinner with some other travellers in the hostel and repeating. Then we ran into our Australian friends who we met in Ometepe, La Fortuna and now again in Bocas. So we planned a fishing trip with them and took off the next afternoon - an absolutely perfect sunny day - in search of delicious red snapper for dinner. We ...

... beach debris just ripe for the pickings to create into some elaborate sculpture if we had more time. We are not beach sitters and will get bored after one hour of reading a book on the sand. The village of Malpais is based around a long stretch of road parallel to the surf beach and the waves always seems to be pumping here, all along the points and open beaches. There is mass building work happening here and the town is rapidly growing as more ...

... and the school runs it. Both Monteverde and Santa Elena are the same forest just split up differently. Anyway... this was a cloud forest. It has a completely different look and feel than the amazon rain forest I went to a few years ago. From there I came down to the Nicoya Peninsula which is famous with around the world surfers. Mal Pais specifically is ...

... and the water not so blue but the surrounding makes it our favourite spot so far. Why? - Palms and the vegetation goes right to the beach. - No big Hotels yet and miles of beach to explore - No Jetskies - Big Waves - Shadow without have to pay due to the palmtrees and other plants - lots of shells to collect - cheap and nice hostels - viewing monkeys for free ..... After a typical Pinto Gallo (did i tell you already about this dish? Its beans and ...

... to get some food and drinks and lo and behold when we came back, 2 of the girls were walking dwon the road to us and told us they stole the surfboards. "Dos pinche cavarones nos robaron!" Two muther fu#%&rs robbed us! When I was talking to them earlier they said they were staying in Tamarindo so he and I hightailed north. I never thought I would be rally-racing a Daihatsu Terios on the backroads of CR but thats ...

... here when they all get the munchies.

Last night we had dinner at Lucy's which is right across from Los Mangoes and had fried rice with chicken. I haven't had that since the last time I was in CR and it was so good. However, after a huge plate of it and 2 Fantas I was so ready for sleep... even though it was only 6pm. But we went back to the room, plopped ourselves on the bed 'for a second" and woke up at 10pm to turn the light off. However, I woke up thinking it was 10AM and ...