Hotel El Establo Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve

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... close a couple of times. The room was nice, and with the exception of the flora and fauna &#8211; and the temperatures &#8211; you could actually imagine yourself being in the Swiss Alps. <br><br>I decided to spend the afternoon relaxing, I even crashed for a couple of hours. But thereafter, I went to the jacuzzi located in a small pavilion a few steps down on the hill. Before that I went for a little 20 minutes walk on a trail in the woods surrounding the hotel. It was really ...

After dropping Bev off at the airport we headed straight out of town. Of course this took us a good hour due to traffic and the inability to get proper directions! The map I we had purchased at a hotel the day when we came into the country was supposedly up-to-date, but so far I had counted around 10 mistakes. The San Jose portion was no different. By the time we got out of the city it was around 3 PM so we only had a few hours of daylight left and we still had to go ...

... left and not long after that we saw a clearing ahead and thought we must have been at the top.<br>Unfortunatly the clearing was the road and the track we where following ended there, we where both determined to get to the top though so we started walking up the road, which was a really steep, really muddy donkey track that I cant imagine any car going up.<br>When we reached the top we stood and looked from the top of the mountain over the tops of the trees ...

Just a quick blog to keep you up to date<br>Had to change plans as there was no space at Sirena Ranger Station. Margarita was able to organise alternative route into Corcovado<br>Got Marvi bus to Sierpe. Stayed in good cabinas and had excellent meal in their restaurant<br>

... with Francisco, I would not recommend him to others. <br><br>When we got back from the park, we did a little shopping and went to lunch at a place called Johnny&#8217;s Pizza. This is a great place to eat. The service was great, the food was great, and it is an indoor restaurant (Johnny&#8217;s and Fonda Vela were the only two indoor restaurants we ate at during our trip). We loved their focaccia appetizer, and they had so many types of pizza.<br ...

... because I have never seen a pineapple still growing ha. There are thses Howler Monkeys that you can randomlly hear, OOOO OOOOoooo OOOoooo, that are really kidna creepy sounding. almost liek teh sound is a scary movie. crazy moths and butterfly just randomly fly by. Then on top of it all theres the sounds of so many different birds and insects. But just chilling in a hammock for hours each day and watchign passiont fruit fall off the ...

... grade nines play my favourite camp game, Nature Stratego, with the grade 3s and 4s. In the afternoon various classes shared songs and words of wisdom with the rest of the school before we all participated in a school-wide garbage clean-up with prizes for those grades that picked up the most. Still need to work on my curriculum...but I feel that is project for next week. Not much is new at the home stay, although there are three new pets! The first one was discovered ...

... the soda (little restaurant) and had the best meal of our lives, Gallo pinto (the famous tipico option of rice, beans, eggs, bananas, tortillas and salsa lizano!). Today we slept in big time and then went and spent a while at a local hot springs giving each other foot massages! Then we caught the bus down to San Isidro where we are now. Tomorrow we´ll catch the 6:30 bus to Puerto Jimenez and start our 3 day hike through the famous Parque Nacional Corcovado. It should be great.